The document discusses the history of wind power in three periods: 1) The Golden Age of wind power where the Dutch created wind power technology to reclaim land from the sea. 2) The 1970s "Hippy" wind power movement that was pioneered in the Netherlands, Denmark, and California in response to concerns about energy and the environment. 3) Current wind power adoption with Germany having over 20% of its electricity from wind, Denmark over 25%, and the Netherlands less than 10%. The document concludes with lessons learned that long term stable policies are important for renewable energy markets, visible goals help politics, and entrepreneurs drive innovation.

1. Learning From The Wind
@fnauta January 11th, 2012
Edinburgh

2. 1. Golden Age wind power
2. Hippy wind power
3. Learning From The Wind

3. 2010 Wind power share
electricity production
• Germany: >20% share
• Netherlands: <10%
• Denmark: > 25%

4. 1
Golden Age
wind power

5. God created the world, but the Dutch created Holland

10. 2
Hippy wind power

11. 70'ies
• Triggered by:
- Club of Rome
- Energy Crisis
• Three countries pioneered:
- Netherlands
- Denmark
- California
• Late followers: Germany, Germany, UK, China

12. 2010 Wind power share
electricity production
• Germany: >20% share
• Netherlands: <10%
• Denmark: > 25%

18. Germany
• 1988: First feed-in proposal got Germany into
pilot mode: 100 MW wind + 1.000 Roofs PV
• 1991: Einspeizegezetz
• 1995: 1.100 MW Wind Power
• 1999: 100.000 Roofs
• 90's: 2 billion euros in public R&D
• 2005 > 50% installed world capacity
• 23 years of stable policy

19. Netherlands
• First to the party in 70'ies
• Policy commitment gone by start 80'ies
• Reestablished by mid 90'ies
• Gone around new millenium
• Policy commitment reestablished etc
• Currently: big plans for wind at sea
• 35 years of traffic light policy

20. Denmark
• Great funding for R&D and implementation
• Smart acquisition of Dutch & Califonian
technology 80'ies
• World market share > 20%
• Industry > 3 billion revenue
• Wind power market share 2020 goal 50%
• 35 years of stable policy

21. Market share 2010
and RePower)

22. Learning From the
Wind

23. 1
Markets outperform
central planning by a mile
• Right incentives
• Provided it's for the long term (> 20 years)
• Funding is automated: top-up tax
• Regulation low transactional costs

24. 2
In Policy Matters,
Politics Matter
• As ideology-free as possible
• BHAG: Big Hary Audacious Goal
• Visible results: landmark
• Smartly use policy windows

25. 2
In Policy Matters,
Politics Matter

26. 2
In Policy Matters,
Politics Matter
• As ideology-free as possible
• BHAG: Big Hary Audacious Goal
• Visible results: landmark
• Smartly use policy windows

27. 3
Entrepreneurs make
all the difference
• Startups coming up with great, high risk
solutions
• Herman Scheer was a politician-entrepreneur
• The 10.001 owners of Middelgrunden Off
Shore Wind Park are entrepreneurs
• Behind the scenes there are many
entrepreneurial civil servants
➡ Make sure you find the market & policy
context that is stable

28. As for the Dutch
• In EU wind power expansion will be mainly at
sea
• EU market for off shore wind power
projection: € 4 Billion in 2010 to € 20 Billion
in 2020

29. Thank you
for your attention
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