The Power Wind Gives To Sweden

Sweden to Reach Renewables Target 12 Years Early on Wind Surge

Jesper Starn, July 4, 2018 (Bloomberg News)

“Swedish utilities and power generators have already installed so many wind turbines that the Nordic nation is on course to reach its 2030 renewable energy target late this year…[According to the Swedish Wind Energy Association, Sweden will have more than enough capacity by December] to meet a target to add 18 terawatt-hours of new renewable energy output by the end of next decade. Some new plants will be built by Norway, who Sweden share a renewable certificates market with…The surge in new installations and investment decisions has become a concern for existing power producers, who rely on subsidies to make their projects financially viable. Forward prices in the renewable certificate market are 70 percent lower for 2021 than a year earlier because of all the new installations…Final investment decisions for as many as 840 megawatts were taken in the second quarter… and a total of 7,506 megawatts of wind capacity will be installed by December…Most of the new capacity will be on land. A total of 2,609 megawatts of on-shore wind capacity will be added in 2018 and 2019…” click here for more

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