Wind power in France
France has the third largest wind resources in Europe after Germany and the United Kingdom. Électricité de France, the main French electricity generator and supplier in France plans to increase its capacity to 10 GW in the year 2010.
The French government plans to produce 21% of its electricity consumption with renewable energy in 2010 to comply with European directive 2001/77/CE of 27 September 2001. This means that France has to produce 106 TWh of renewable energy in 2010 when it only produced 71 TWh in 2006. Wind power represents 75% of the 35 TWh additional production in 2010.[1]
Total installed capacity early 2010 (9/1/2010, other updates see link 2) : 4,521 MW
As of the end of 2012, total installed capacity was 7564 MW
| Region | 28 August 2006 (MW)[3] |
1 September 2007 (MW)[4] |
|---|---|---|
| Centre | 244 | 315 |
| Languedoc-Roussillon | 215 | 281 |
| Brittany | 168 | 254 |
| Lorraine | 100 | 208 |
| Picardy | 86 | 193 |
| Champagne-Ardenne | 102 | 157 |
| Pays de la Loire | 46 | 104 |
| Rhône-Alpes | 90 | 103 |
| Auvergne | 39 | 92 |
| Nord-Pas de Calais | 72 | 87 |
| Midi-Pyrénées | 33 | 83 |
| Overseas department | 27 | |
| Territoire d'outre-mer | 24 | |
| Lower Normandy | 26 | 50 |
| Upper Normandy | 16 | 36 |
| Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | 29 | 31 |
| Poitou-Charentes | 12 | 21 |
| Corsica | 18 | 18 |
| Limousin | 9 | 9 |
| Aquitaine | 0 | 0 |
| Burgundy | 0 | 0 |
| Franche-Comté | 12 | 0 |
| Alsace | 0 | 0 |
| Total France | 1 300 | 2 042 |
A 67 MW capacity can also be added for the DOM-TOM regions. This represents 1.718 wind turbines.
References[edit]
- ^ source: Jérôme Gosset et Thierry Ranchin: Bilan et prospective de la filière éolienne française) [1]
- ^ European Wind Energy Association's web page March 2013
- ^ Suivi-eolien.com
- ^ Syndicat des énergies renouvelables
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