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6. Big push for SW Renewables
Following on from the revised planning guidance produced by the SE
Regional Assembly (see Renew 145), RegenSW has produced a renewable
energy strategy for the South West Region. It’s based on “Renewable
Energy Assessment and Targets for the South West”, a report produced
by the Government Office for the South West (GOSW), which suggested
a target of obtaining 11-15% of the regions electricity from renewable
sources by 2010. That’s a big jump from the figure of just over 1% at
present and it’s well in excess of the 5.5% by 2010 proposed by the
SE Region. It is also much larger than the 3.7-7.8% range proposed for
the SW in the DTI’s regional targets: see Renew 137. But then the SW
has a lot a of wind, biomass and possibly also wave resources, as well
of course as tidal currents. The targets are made up as follows:
Target 11-15% of electricity
from renewables by 2010
SW Regen
Renewable Enegy Strategy 2003 |
| Technology |
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Number |
Capacity |
| Offshore Wind |
50MW, 20-30 turbines |
1 |
50 |
| Onshore wind |
25MW, 10-20 turbines |
13 |
78 |
| Medium scale Wind farms |
25MW, 10-20 turbines |
6 |
150 |
| Small wind clusters |
6MW, 10 turbines |
13 |
78 |
| Single Large Tbns |
1.5MW |
15 |
22.5 |
| Single small Tbns |
0.03MW |
90 |
2.5 |
| Biomass combustion energy crops and/or agricultural
waste |
Large CHP, 200MW wood, straw |
5 |
105 |
| Medium CHP 5MW |
7 |
35 |
| Biomass anaerobic digestion |
Farm |
5 |
2.5 |
| Sewage |
2 |
1 |
| Municiple or Industrial waste |
CHP or Electricity 10MW |
2 |
20 |
| Green waste or Industrial |
CHP or Electricity 1.2MW |
6 |
7.5 |
| Landfill Gas |
CHP or Electricity |
8 |
11.2 |
| Small Hydro 0.1MW |
|
30 |
3 |
| Solar PV |
Domestic and commercial |
2.929 |
12.25 |
| Tidal Current 7.5MW |
|
3 |
15.3 |
| Tidal Barrage |
|
1 |
28 |
| Shoreline Wave |
|
1 |
0.5 |
Total capacity |
644.25 MW |
Total Annual
Energy Output |
227.6 GWh p.a |
As can be seen, there is a brave attempt to include a small tidal and
wave contribution, but wind power dominates. Interestingly the strategy
assumes that most of the on land wind will be in Devon, whereas, so
far, Devon has pretty much resisted wind projects.
The RegenSW Strategy outlines the actions that will need to be taken
by each organistations locally to make the overall expansion happen.
A summary of the strategy and the full GOSW report are at:
www.regensw.co.uk For more on RegenSW see Groups.
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