Wind Energy

General
Due to the increasing world-wide energy requirements and the finiteness of fossil and nuclear fuels the production of renewable energies becomes more and more important.

In the last decades engineers have achieved large progress in design of wind-power plants. Now the technical challenges of offshore wind parks on open sea have to be accepted.

Europe
In March 2007 the 27 members of the European Union decided to reduce the output of greenhouse gases and energy consumption by 20 per cent up to 2020. To reach this ambitious aim the European Union decided to produce 20 per cent of electricity from renewable energies in 2020.

Germany
Wind energy and water power are actually the two main sources for the contribution of renewable energies of electrical power in Germany.
In 2009 wind energy plants with an installed output capacity of 25,777 megawatts (state 2009/12/31) are located in Germany. Thus the wind energy has a portion of 7,58 per cent of the gross electrical energy consumption in Germany.

The climatic goals given by the European Union can only attained by including all renewable sources of energy, in particular offshore wind farms.