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- The meeting in Tirana, a crucial passage for Project Powered.
The partners of the European project Powered (Project of Offshore Wind Energy: Research, Experimentation, Development), gathered on January 28th and 29th in Tirana: the meeting has been opened by the report of the Albanian Ministry of Economy, Trade and Energy which explained how Albania is one of the few European countries that produces electricity entirely from renewable sources (particularly hydropower) and has a strategy of
further development of clean energy, to integrate a wide area that includes Italy, Bulgaria and Greece.
The meeting produced important and positive novelties.
First of all, in the beginning of February will be issued the public call for tender to assign the installation of EIGHT anemometer coastal towers and the measurement equipment on A tower that already exists: it will be published by the Gazzetta ufficiale italiana and by the Official Journal of the European Union (OJ).
This is the second step of Project Powered, co-financed by the Project IPA CBC Adriatic. The project aims are:
1. To evaluate wind resources of the Adriatic Sea, using numerical meteorologic reconstructions that at least have THREE years of term (2009-2011);
2. To implement a network of wind measuring stations whose characteristics match to the determination of the manufacturability of electricity from wind power. The network will remain active until 2019;
3. To activate a system of short term weather forecasting (24-48 hours) that aids to evaluate potential energy output from offshore wind farms in the Adriatic Sea. The system will remain active until 2019;
4. To define the type of marine areas in which it will be forbidden to install offshore wind farms;
5. To identify every issue associated with the development of offshore wind in the Adriatic Sea;
6. To write the Guidelines for proper insertion of offshore wind farms and define paperwork requested to obtain authorizations for the construction.
Therefore, the partners of Project Powered gathered in Tirana decided to plan two events. The first will be organized by the Marche Region and the University Politecnica delle Marche and will be held in Ancona on May 29th and 30th 2013. On May 29th is scheduled the scientific conference on the issues regarding infrastructures, transports, technologies, environment and landscape connected with the installation and management of offshore wind farms in Italy, in the Adriatic area and worldwide. International experts will be invited: the starting point of the debate will be the Project Powered. On May 30th the partners will meet to discuss the project state of art and the starting of the final stage of the project.
The partners also decided to plan an event in Ravenna, on June 27th and 28th 2013: the topics will be the potentiality of wind energy along the coasts and the development of green ports in the Adriatic sea; besides they will participate to some selected events regarding the energy sector that will be organized in Europe in the end of 2013.
At the meeting in Tirana has been also illustrated the results of the wind map and has been introduced an important issue related to them: the chance to certify data. This way those who are interested to invest in the off shore field – companies, institutions, bank, but also those who have to provide for authorization – may get a document that is absolutely reliable and recognized as such by banks and international investment funds. The proposal came from the Italian Ministry of Environment and Protection of Land and Sea, which is one of the most influential partner of the project.
- Porto Corsini small wind turbine: one year of data collected
December 17th 2011 was inaugurated the small wind turbine on the cruise terminal of Porto Corsini in Ravenna. The
implementation of the plant – 1.5 KW of power – has been made possible by the collaboration among Province of Ravenna, Port Authority of Ravenna, Ravenna Passenger Terminal and Tozzi Nord (who donated the experimental small wind turbine) and also by a co-financing of the European Project Powered, an Adriatic IPA cross-border program.
The plant, which is connected to an anemometer, in a year has collected data on the strength of the wind that have been stored on a computer and processed by a software developed by Tozzi Nord (here the whole document file).
- Tirana meeting, January 28th and 29th 2013
The meeting among the partners of Project Powered will take place in Tirana, at the Albanian Ministry of Economy, Trade and Energy (Skenderbeg square) January 28th and 29th 2013: the meeting aim is to take stock on the project state of the art.
The most important aspect of the meeting regards the Albanian Ministry of the energy that will report on the status of energy sector in Albany and the strategies to develop alternative energy sources, particularly wind power. The schedule plans the meeting of the Scientific Committee and the Steering Committee, led by the coordinators, Professor Renato Ricci and Antonio Sorgi, manager of the Energy for the Region Abruzzo, who is also the project manager. Participants will include also the project manager Ercole Cauti.
The European Project Powered (Project of Offshore Wind Energy: Research, Experimentation, Development) is co-financed by the IPA CBC Adriatic. The goal is to collect scientific data, using sophisticated equipment anemometer and innovative mathematical models, to assess the technical and economic conditions to encourage investment in wind power plants offshore in the Adriatic Sea.
In the first day of the meeting, at 10 am, after the intervention of the representatives of the Albanian Ministry of Economy, Trade and Energy and the project manager, Antonio Sorgi, the schedule provides an illustration of the Work packages state of the art. In the afternoon, at 3.30 pm, Scientific Committee meeting will take place.
The next day, the Steering Committee will gather at 9.30 am: the task is rather important because 2013 will be the decisive year of the project. In fact, it will be installed the network of anemometers, it will be improved the physical-mathematical model it and will be elaborated the weather data, that constitute the core of the Project Powered.
- Barack Obama: 47 million dollars for offshore wind power
One of the first acts of the re-elected president of the United States regards wind energy: the Barack Obama administration, in fact, decided to allocate funding for 7 projects aimed to build offshore wind farms in four major areas of the country (Northwest, Midwest , Gulf of Mexico, East Coast).
Each project will be funded up to $ 4 million and 3 out of 7 may receive up to $ 47 million. What explains how important this decision is in the direction of a wind energy development is that the United States, regarding the last four years, have more than doubled this kind of energy production, reaching in summer 2012 50 GW of electricity generation and employing more than 75,000 people (here the original article ).
- Montenegro meeting: a strong impulse to achieve the Project Powered goals
On October 30th and 31st was held in Podgorica, Montenegro, the new official meeting among the partners of the European Project Powered (Project of Offshore Wind Energy: Research, Experimentation, Development, funded by the Project of cross-border cooperation IPA Adriatic), to make the point on the progress and the steps planned to achieve the goals of the project: to collect, through the use of sophisticated anemometers and innovative mathematical models, scientific data in order to assess the technical and economic conditions to start investments in power plants offshore wind in the Adriatic Sea. The most important news has been announced by Prof. Ricci from Polytechnic University of Marche: after the positive resolution of understandable legal technical difficulties, by the end of November will be released an European call for tenders to identify the specialized subjects that will realize the support towers and the installation of a first block of anemometers on both sides of the ‘Adriatic.
Project Powered plans to create a network of newly developed anemometers: each apparatus for measuring the strength of the wind will be installed on towers of 45 meters, placed both on the land and in the sea. So it will be possible to detect accurately the real potential of wind in the Adriatic sea and the chance to exploit it to run offshore wind power plants. The data are highly accurate: the big international banks consider them trustworthy to decide on the investments eligibility. The stretch of sea off the coast of Marche is one among the locations to install the anemometers: it will be used an Eni platform, hundred feet high, on which will be built a tower of the same height.
Antonio Sorgi, the Energy sector general director of Abruzzo Region (Project Powered lead partner), with the collaboration of all partners, carried out a careful analysis about the progress of the project and the individual work packages. Among the elements to be reported, the ‘core’ of the project, the analysis of wind conditions in the Adriatic, has already taken a significant step forward, thanks to the good work of Marche Polytechnic University, led by Professor Renato Ricci. The mathematical model used by the Marche Polytechnic University researchers is very advanced and has a novelty: the model is able to calculate the power of the wind with a detail to a square kilometre. The model is able to provide a very reliable picture of the strength of the wind in Adriatic, which will be further verified by data provided by the Powered anemometers network. Thanks to the model, it has been confirmed the potential of wind in Adriatic grows proceeding from north to south, even if there are considerable variability at the local level.
To develop wind energy and to pay back the investment in the present conditions of incentive, both of Italy and of the eastern Adriatic countries, it is needed an average wind of at least 7 meters per second at hub height: such conditions, according to the model, are present in some coastal areas of Abruzzo, Molise and Puglia in Italy, and in some parts of Albania, Montenegro and Croatia for the eastern Adriatic countries. Professor Renato Ricci has also ensured that his team is able to increase the accuracy of the mathematical model, on particularly suited areas, reaching a detail up to 200 meters spatial step.
It would also be possible, when the project will be carried out, to understand in a better way the wind potential in some coastal areas of the project partners, that are potentially interesting to install wind power plants: like the Adriatic ports with suitable characteristics. The aim is to contribute to the gradual transformation of the Adriatic seaports in modern ‘green port’, in which the contribution of renewable energy will grow progressively.
The meeting also gave a positive account of the progress of the tasks related to the laws of the States and the environmental impact issues: it has been started an analysis on guidelines to be drawn up for making the offshore development in the growing areas of ‘Adriatic area viable and sustainable.
The contribution of the partner that hosted the meeting has been very important: the Ministry of Energy of Montenegro representative has shown the growing commitment of his country, which is in pre-accession to the EU, to implement the European Directive 2009/28/CE (so-called ’20 20 20) and, in particular, to strengthen the commitment to develop renewable sources. The strategy of the Balkan country is based on the further development of hydroelectric power (which already represents a significant share of the nation’s energy production), the strong development of solar energy, both thermal and photovoltaic, and exploitation of onshore and offshore wind potential. About it, Montenegro has authorized the construction of two wind farms on Mozura (46 MW) and Krnovo (72 MW) and is working with some European countries, particularly active in the wind energy sector, to carry out a detailed study on the chance to create wind farms in the coastal area of Ulcjni and Bar. Hence the strong interest of Montenegro for Project Powered: to explore scientifically the full potential of exploitation of the wind resource to realize, later, with the help of investors, wind farms (in particular offshore).
At the end of the meeting, the partners agreed that the next one will take place in late January 2013 in Albania (Tirana), and it will have as main topics the results of European competitive tender to assign the installation of anemometers and how to install them. Partners also agreed to organize, during spring 2013, a succession of conferences on specific topics related to Project Powered: Ravenna (wind power and green port), in Venice (climate change, renewable energy and role of wind energy) and Ancona (physical models and mathematical development of off shore in the Adriatic).
- Great success for the Project Powered partners meeting in Podgorica
It was a great success the meeting of Project Powered partners, which took place in Podgorica, Montenegro, October 30th, to
make the point about the project ‘state of the art’. The Wp managers illustrated what has been done and what are the next steps. In the same occasion, the Scientific Committee and the Steering Committee gathered to discuss the project topics.
The next meeting will be hosted in Albania in Tirana, the end of January 2013: in the meantime, the competitive bid to install the anemometers will start in November.
- A meeting in Rimini on the offshore wind power in Europe and Italy
Ecomondo 2012, the International trade fair of material & energy recovery and sustainable development of Rimini, on November 8th will host the conference ‘The potential of off-shore wind power in the scenario of renewable energy in Europe: the ‘Italy case’ (here the program). The meeting aims to analyze the prospects for using offshore wind power as an energy source capable of promoting the economic development.
- Project Powered at Brussels Open Days, 10th October 2012
The ‘Powered Project’ will be illustrated by Antonio Sorgi (Director General for Presidency and European Affairs, Energy and Environmental Assessment – Abruzzo Region, project lead partner) during the debate on ‘Adriatic-Ionian Macroregion: transnational, cross boarder and interregional cooperation actions paving the way ahead’ that will be hosted in Brussels, 10th October at 9 am, at the espace of Banca Monte Paschi Belgio (Avenue d’Auderghem 22-28 – 1040).
The event, that is part of the ‘10th European week of Regions and Cities’ – the event hosted in Brussels from 8th October to 11th October 2012 – is organized by Abruzzo Region (as lead-partner) along with ‘Adriatic-Ionian Macroregion’ partners: Republic of Slovenja (SI), Basilicata Region (IT), Dubrovnik – Neretva Region (HR), Emilia Romagna Region (IT), Herzegovina-Neretva Canton (BH), Marche Region (IT), Molise Region (IT), Nisava, Toplica and Pirot Districts (RS), Puglia Region (IT), Republika Srpska (BH), Sicilia Region (IT), Sumadija-Pomoravlje Districts (RS).
Two panels have been scheduled after the welcome address and introduction by Ferdinando Nelli Feroci (Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Italy to the European Commission), Maria Damanaki (Member of the European Commission, Responsible for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries) and Gianni Chiodi (President of Abruzzo Region). The first will deal with ‘Economic, social and institutional cooperation, network accessibility’, chaired by Pascal Goergen (Secretary General of Assembly of European Regions, AER). The speakers will be Angelo Michele Iorio (President of Adriatic Euroregion and President of Molise Region), Patrizia Mainardi (Managing Authority Erdf Op 2007/2013 –Basilicata Region), Nikola Dubroslavic (President Dubrovnik-Neretva Region), Jasminka Lukovic Jaglicic (Director of Sumadija and Pomoravlje regional economic development agency), Zoran Perisic (Mayor of the city of Nis), Slobodan Markovic (Director of Republika Srpska development agency for Smes).
Second Panel will deal with ‘Energy and network accessibility, natural resources and risk prevention’, chaired by José Palma Andres (DG Regio, Director for European Transnational, cross border and Interregional Cooperation).
The speakers will be Antonio Sorgi (Director General for Presidency and European Affairs, Energy and Environmental Assessment – Abruzzo Region), Silvia Godelli (Regional Minister for Tourism, Culture and Mediterranean Affairs – Puglia Region), Pietro Tolomeo (Director General Sicily Region), Enrico Cocchi (Director General Emilia Romagna Region), Gian Mario Spacca (President of Marche Region), Radomis Matczak (Director Pomorskie Voivodeship).
Four key notes have been scheduled: the speakers will be Francois Alfonsi (Member of European Parliament), Igor Sencar (State Secretary for Foreign Affairs Slovenja), Dimitris Kourkoulas (Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs Grecee), Josko Klisovic (Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs Croatia).
Final note and conclusions by Marta Dassù (State Secretary for Foreign Affairs Italy).
- Project Powered presented at Rio +20
Project Powered (Project of Offshore Wind Energy: Research, Experimentation, Development), of which the Abruzzo Region is the leading partner, was presented in Brazil at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, that is held in Rio De Janeiro from Wednesday 13th to Thursday 22nd of June: the project was presented yesterday, June 14th, in the Italian Pavilion, in the meeting ‘Offshore wind energy in southern Europe: building capabilities through Ipa-Powered Project’. Powered aims to verify whether there are in the Adriatic Sea the weather, technical and administrative prerequisites to exploit the wind energy.
The Rio initiative is part of a series of meetings and debates the Ministry of Environment organized in cooperation with the Forum das Americas and the World Federation of UN Associations (World Federation of United Nations Associations) – from June 13th to June 21st, to explore major issues and projects about the sustainable development. In this opportunity, in front of an audience of international experts, the Abruzzo Region will illustrate the first results of the study. The Minister for the Environment, Corrado Clini, who will represent Italy in Rio de Janeiro, confirmed the ‘Project Powered’ can represent a model and define the path for the development of offshore wind in the Adriatic sea. The objective of the Government is, in fact, to understand whether it is possible to develop wind power in the Adriatic sea, consistently with the preservation of the environment. Since the project will be concluded, that will be within three years, we expect to create the conditions for major industrial investments in wind off-shore in Italy, how is happening already in other European countries.
Abruzzo Region, creator of the project, is the head of a partnership network which includes the Ministry of Economy of Montenegro, Veneto Agriculture, the Province of Ravenna, Region Marche, Molise and Puglia, CETMA, the company Micoperi Ltd., the Ministry of Environment, the Ministry of Economy of Albania and the Croatian city of Komiza. The study develops the possibility of installing a network of anemometers along the two coasts of the Adriatic, both offshore and inland, capable of collecting extremely sophisticated data about the strength of the winds. The anemometer will be placed in open sea, on piles of variable-height between 40 and 60 meters. The anemometers will collect extremely accurate scientific data, which will be gathered by the Aeronautic meteorological centre: the analysis of these data will allow to check carefully whether there are areas of the Adriatic Euroregion with favourable climatic conditions to tap the wind energy. The data collected from anemometers will be published on the website http://www.powered-ipa.it, where you can also follow the steps of the project and check the press release. The Director of Regional Affairs of the Presidency and the energy sector policies of the Region, Antonio Sorgi, is the head of the delegation from Abruzzo in Rio de Janeiro. “Having the opportunity to present Powered in a so prestigious forum, in the Italy Pavilion – said Sorgi – means to earn a spotlight for the project and, consequently, its worldwide validation. In Rio, in fact, we will present the first results of the study, from which may arise a confrontation that will surely be enriched by consideration and observation of industry experts from all over the world at this global event. Our hope is to draw useful information to improve the scope and the quality of the project, which benefits of an investment of 4 million 400 thousand euro and has to be completed by February 2014. The appointment of Rio +20 – continues Sorgi – is even more important if we consider that comes 20 years after the first world conference on Earth, that took place in the Brazilian metropolis.” At the presentation of Project Powered, besides Sorgi, who is also the head of the steering committee, will attend by Roberto Binatti (Ministry of the Environment, Land and Sea of Italy), professor Renato Ricci, professor at the University Politecnica of Marche and responsible for the scientific committee, Ercole Cauti, of Metron Group and project manager of Powered, and Mara Roncuzzi, councillor for environmental affairs of the Province of Ravenna.
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