Using clean energy of wind is the most positive step in the surge of insecurity created by the constant growth of oil prices, climate changes, devastated environment, reduced reserves of fossil fuels and dependence on import of electric power from other producers.
The European Union set the fixed objective binding all its member-states – as well as those that would become EU member - that annual minimum of 20 per cent of electric power should be produced from the renewable sources of energy, wind, the sun, biomass, etc. In order to reach this objective by 2020, more than one third of the total production of power in Europe should be produced from the renewable sources of energy. It is expected that wind will secure production between 14 and 18 percent of power but there are examples of countries like Denmark that already, in 2008, produced about 24 percent of its total energy from wind, and it plans to produce a half of its produced energy from this renewable source by 2020.
Some benefits of using clean wind energy:
- Economic growth and creation of new jobs. During 2009, investments into construction of wind park in Europe reached € 13 billion, including one and a half billion Euros for construction of offshore wind parks. That year is the second in row in which installed capacities of wind energy exceeded all others in the field of power production and the percentage of wind in new installed power plant was increased from 35 to 39 percent during 2009. That same year nearly 200,000 people found new jobs owing to the development of power production from wind. The estimates show that wind industry in Europe by 2020 may open 250,000 new jobs;
- Clean environment and its preservation.
75 gigwatts of energy, as being installed by the end of 2009 in the European Union, reduced the harmful emissions by 106 million tons of carbon dioxide, which equals 25 per cent or 53 million vehicles removed from the roads across Europe. Moreover, € 152 billion, as is expected to be invested into wind industry by 2020, will save the cost of € 135 billion, which would be otherwise spent to recover the consequences of harmful gasses emissions, before all carbon dioxide;
- Energy dependence. Europe currently imports annually more than a half of its energy consumption and it is expected that this quantity in the next 20 or 30 years will rise up to 70 percent. The power of wind installed at the end of 2009, in a customary windy year, produced nearly five percent of total electric power in Europe. By 2020 the production of power using wind energy will save € 328 billion in the cost of oil.