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      Solar
            statistics Europe 2008
      Zonne-statistieken
            Europa 2008 
       
      On
            this webpage several graphs I made from the data published by EurObserv'ER
          in their ninth Report, "The State of Renewable Energies in Europe". 
      Op
            deze pagina enkele grafieken die ik heb gemaakt van data gepubliceerd
            door
            EurObserv'ER in hun 9th Report, "The State of Renewable Energies
            in Europe". 
       
      Market
      development for photovoltaics in EU27 GRAPHS 
      Market development for thermal
      solar collectors in EU27 GRAPHS 
      Concentrating Solar Power - summary (Dutch) 
       
      Progression
            of renewable electricity in EU27 per country (Dutch)
            GRAPH 
            Progression
            of renewable energy in EU27 per country (Dutch) GRAPH 
      Links 
      More recent reports: 
          up till 2010, up
      till 2009 
       
      Introductie 
      In februari
          2010 werd een nieuw overzicht van statistieken over duurzame energie
          in de EU27 gepubliceerd door EurObserv'ER. Polder PV selecteerde de
          gegevens voor, met name, zonne-energie, maakte er enkele grafieken
          van, en belichtte nog enkele opvallende zaken. 
       
      Grafieken met marktontwikkeling zonnestroom in EU27 
            Graphs with market development for photovoltaics in EU27 
        
      Figure
            1. Accumulated capacity of photovoltaic installations in the EU27,
            in GWp (1 GWp = 1.000 MWp = 1.000.000 kWp), in three consecutive
        years (2006-2008) according to the latest data reported
        by EurObserv'ER (note that numbers might be refreshed in new reports
        dealing with previous years). Data for these and other graphs below come
        from
        the State of Renewable Energies in Europe report (publ. 2009) in which
        the latest data for 2007 and 2008 were given. Numbers for 2006
        come from the Photovoltaic Barometer report published April
        2008. 
      The
            graph shows strong growth in these years, and an absolute dominance
            of grid-connected systems. Autonomous ("off-grid") systems
        make up only 1,3% of the PV market and will dwindle further in significance.Growth
        was even negative between 2006 and 2007 for this small category. Growth
        in grid-connected PV was strong in that period (over 59%), and almost
        doubled to 98 percent from the accumulated 2007 capacity into 2008, with
            final accumulated capacity of 9,69 GWp (according to EurObserv'ER). 
        
      Figure
            2. CLICK on graph to
            see enlargement. EurObserv'er refreshed some older data in their
            latest report. Here, the difference
        is shown
        for
        the accumulation
        data
        for photovoltaic EU27 markets in 2008 between the latest Photovoltaic
            Barometer (PB) report published March 2009, and the present State
            of Renewable
        Energies in Europe (SREE) report/edition 2009. The difference is shown
        in percentage of the PB report findings in purple columns, data on the
        right
        Y-axis.
        The original data from the SREE report are given in yellow columns, left
        Y-axis. The adjustments are most striking for Italy with over 44% more
            installations than previously reported (apparently a large backlog
            of installed PV-capacity there), and to a lesser extent France with
            almost 12% additions, most probably for a large part resulting from
            including the
            overseas departments (not included in the previous PB data). On the
            "negative" side are adjustments to lower accumulations in the small
            markets of Poland, Estonia and Latvia. Only a slight deviation from
            predicted or preliminary accumulation records in such small markets
            immediately leads to high percentages in the adjustment graph. 
      Note:
            for the Netherlands only an estimation was done in the PB report
            since apparently there were no actual data available at that time
            from our authorities (Polder PV is located in the Netherlands). This
            comes to no surprise, since keeping track of the mostly undocumented
            (small) installations in our country is virtually impossible, and
            reliable official publications for the actual growth of the now "subsidized"
            market
            segment (SDE: 2008 18 MWp "approved",
            but at start of 2010 still only one third realized and accepted for
            green certificates by CertiQ) are still lacking. In the SREE report
            4,1 MWp has been
            added instead
            of the
            previous
            PB estimate
            of
            1 MWp for on-grid, and 0,6 MWp for off-grid installations. Note,
            however, that the 2008 market report of the official CBS statistics
            bureau, has stated a market
            growth of 4,444 MWp for the Netherlands (4,205 MWp on-grid plus
            0,239 MWp off-grid). Hence, another discrepancy between published
            data. 
        
      Figure
            3. Accumulated PV-capacity per EU27 country (only for 2008 accumulation
            is given in numbers). Note absolute dominance of world market Germany,
            with over 5,3 GWp accumulated. Secondly, for the year 2008
            a world
            record increase
            (difference between blue and green column, almost 2,7 GWp in one
            year) for Spain, adding up to 3,4 GWp. The booming Spanish market,
            however, collapsed because of a harsh 500 MWp/year cap introduced
            by the Industry
            Ministry for 2009.
            Italy on
            a good
            third place with 458 MWp, with much potential (already
            filled in the next year, 2009). The rest of the EU27 countries
            is hardly visible on this scale (see graphs below). Actual accumulation
            data
            can differ considerably,
            depending
            on the source.
            Therefore, mind the
            red warning (also applicable to other graphs presented on this page):
            the detailed numbers Photon obtained from the primary source for
            reliable
            PV data
            in world
            market
            Germany,
            the
            almost 900
            net managers, revealed that
            in 2008 already 5,95 GWp were on the grid. 11% more
            than the
            EurObserv'ER data presented in this section, and not even accounting
            for the off-grid installations that EurObserv'ER included in their
            data (40 MWp). 
      Note
            that for France**, the results for the overseas departments ("Departements
            Outre Mer", DOM) also have been included in the accumulated
            data. They account for
            a respectable accumulated total of 30,5 MWp  in 2008, representing
            almost 30% (!) of the 102 MWp for the whole country.
            This
            should be kept in mind if one wants to consider the European
            context
            focussed
            on
            the old subcontinent and its neigbouring isles. The "DOM" isles,
            French Guyana, and a small slice of Antarctica, all falling under
            a variety
            of administrative legislation frameworks, are scattered over the
            globe and far removed from the direct "physical" influence sphere
            of Europe, see English Wikipedia map
            and accompanying clarifications. 
        
      Figure
            4. Same graph as figure 2, but with a scale better outlining the
            data for the rest of the EU27 countries (Germany, Spain and Italy
            running off the Y-axis). Note the strong differences in development
            between the other countries: explosive growth in France, Belgium,
            Portugal, and Czech Republic (good, uncapped incentive regimes).
            But low
            growth for my own country, the Netherlands. That once was on the
            forefront
            of
            market
            implementation,
            but that
            has
            lost
            all contact with reality with an extremely complicated, highly capped,
            and hardly stimulating "incentive" regime as of April 1,
            2008. 
        
      Figure
      5. Detail showing the first 10 countries in the EU27, with huge variation
            in the implemented PV-capacities. Difference between Germany and
            the small country of Luxembourg already has grown to a factor 223
            in 2008. Difference with Spain has shrunk dramatically from a factor
            16
            in 2006 to only 1,6 in 2008. However, due to market collapse in Spain
            (2009), and explosive market
            growth in Germany, the solar champion
            renewed its absolute dominance with an estimated 3-4
            GWp added only in that year (yet to be published by Bundesnetzagentur).
            In the "top ten", the Netherlands, Austrian and Luxembourg
            markets hardly grew significantly. 
        
      Figure
            6. Accumulation of PV-capacity in EU27 countries per inhabitant/capita
            and per year. For this, the World Population Reference Bureau data
            for 2009 have been used in the calculations (hence: mid 2009 population
            as fixed reference). A very different picture emerges, with the small
            country Luxembourg as a suprising third on the podium. However: incentives
            have been stopped
            there, and growth as of 2006 has  been very low. In contrast, the
            ratios in other countries have been growing fast. Not only in the
            world markets Germany and Spain, the latter temporarily taking the
            lead in 2008 based on the present data. Also Italy, Belgium, and
            the Czech Republic are developing fast. France has a relative low
            impact in
            this
            graph but will probably grow faster in coming years (2009 included).
            Cyprus is positioned relatively high with its rather small population
            (1,1 million) but already
            2,2 MWp of PV-installations (27% of which is off-grid according to
            EurObserv'ER). In the right of the graph, the average data
            for EU27 countries have been given in deviating colours. Already
            over
            19 Watt(peak)
            per capita has been realized in the EU27 in 2008. 
        
      Figure
            7. Year-on-year growth of the photovoltaic markets in EU27 countries
            for 2007 and 2008, in percentage of the previous market
            accumulation year published by EurObserv'ER. Actual percentages only
            presented for
            the period
            2007-2008 for all countries.
            Yet another
            picture emerging, with relatively "low" growth in world
            market Germany (still:
            39%
            in the
            period 2007-2008!),
            (very)
            strong
            growth numbers for Spain, Italy, France, Belgium, Portugal, and the
            Czech
            Republic. And a flabbergasting 1.776% in the poor east-European country
            Bulgaria... Of course, when a market is still small (Bulgaria 2008
            accumulation: 1,407 MWp), and growth is fast (added in 2008: 1,332
            MWp), the
            growth percentages will be very high. That is the reason that the
            growth in the already huge, mature world market Germany "seems" so
            modest in this
            comparison. 
      Again,
            my own rich country the Netherlands, once a "top" market for a few
            years, is behaving as a very bad boy in this comparison,
              with negligible growth percentages.To the right of the graph again
              the
              average data
              for all EU27 countries is presented. Showing "healthy"
            growth
              percentages of 57% for the period 2006-2007, and, suprisingly, a
              top 96% in the "crisis period" 2007-2008. Note the "negative
              growth"
            for Latvia in the period 2006-2007: resulting from 0,006 MWp for
              2006 being adjusted to only 0,004 MWp for 2007 by EurObserv'ER. 
       
      Grafieken
            met marktontwikkeling van thermische zonnecollectoren in EU27 
            Graphs with market development for thermal solar collectors in
            EU27 
        
      Figure
            8. Thermal solar collector market development in EU27 in the years
            2006-2008. Newly added surface (m²) per year stagnated from 2006
            to 2007 (slight decrease in new capacity added), but grew again strongly
            with almost 52% (added: over 4.500 m²) in the "crisis" year 2008
            (orange columns, right Y-axis). Total accumulation of all m² installed
            in
            EU27 grew
            strongly,
            12,9% from 2006 to 2007, and even 18,6% from 2007 to 2008 (dark brown
            columns in the background, left Y-axis). Already, a surface of 28,5
            million square metres had been realized at the end of 2008 in the
            27 EU countries. 
        
      Figure
            9. Surface area (in million square meters) of thermal
            solar collectors in 27 EU countries. Again, Germany leads the way
            in unprecedented
            manner
            (almost
            3 times
            as much surface area as the number 2), followed bij their southern,
            also German-speaking neighbour Austria that has
            a
            long tradition with this sustainable energy modus. Thermal collectors
            can be found on many roofs in the Mediterranean region, which is
            reflected in the data from EurObserv'ER: Greece leading the way,
            followed by France, Italy, and Spain. Surprisingly, Netherlands follows
            on number 7, but development of the market again remains relatively
            slow, despite a new temporary incentive regime. Only for 2008 the
            accumulated
            data
            are
            given per country.Growth in Germany has been considerable in 2008
            (added: 1,92 million m²...). 
        
      Figure
            10. More detailed graph as figure 9, better outlining the contributions
            of the "lesser" countries (Germany off-scale). Note that, apart from
            progressive development in the numbers 2 (Austria) and 3 (Greece)
            in 2008, also strong growth occurred in France, Italy and Spain. 
        
      Figure
            11. Detail showing the first 10 countries in the EU27, with a
            considerable range of  implemented thermal solar collector surface
            areas. The difference between Germany and
            the Czech Republik  (number 10) has grown to a factor 28
            in 2008 - the "span" between the numbers 1 and 10 is less wide than
            with photovoltaics. The difference with the number 2, Austria, remains,
            however
             considerable - a factor of almost 2,9 in 2008.
            Growth of Austria, Greece, and France was moderate. Italy and in
            particular Spain (+35,2%) grew considerable. The latter 4 "top ten
            countries" hardly grew, apart from the Czech Republic (+27,8%). 
        
      Figure
            12. Accumulation of thermal solar collector capacity in EU27 countries
            per inhabitant/capita and per year. Also for this graph, the World
            Population Reference
            Bureau data
            for 2009 have been used in the calculations (hence: mid 2009 population
            as fixed reference). And also in this picture, some other accents
            become visible as in the original graphs with "absolute" surface
            areas per country. This time, the small, sunny Mediterranean island
            of Cyprus leads the way, with
            a surface
            of 0,6
            m² per inhabitant.
            Germany, leader when it comes to overall surface area realized, is
            set back to the fourth place because of its large population (hence:
            smaller
            ratio
            per inhabitant).
            Austria
            is
            on the
            second
            position, followed by the only other serious competitor  Greece.
            Following Germany other countries have less than 0,1 square metre
            per inhabitant, starting with that other Mediterranean island, Malta.            At
            the right end of the graph, the average data for
              EU27 countries have been given in deviating colours. 0,06 m² per
            capita has been realized in the EU27 in 2008, which easily should
            and could get much larger. Thermal solar energy can offset a lot
            of fossil primary energy use and should be  stimulated with great
            urgency. 
        
      Figure
            13. Year-on-year growth of the thermal solar collector markets in
            EU27 countries for 2007 and 2008, in percentage of the previous market
            accumulation
            year published by EurObserv'ER. Actual percentages only presented
      for the period 2007-2008 for all countries.  
      Yet
            another picture emerging, with relatively "low" growth
            in world market Germany (20% in the period 2007-2008), and suprising
             strong growth for the Atlantic island nation of Ireland (123% in
            2008). Other growth percentages are good and widely spread among
            EU27 nations. Portugal had a short boom year in 2007 and fell back
        to a more moderate 29% growth in 2008. Poor "growth performers" are,
            yet again, my own country, the  Netherlands, Cyprus and Denmark.
            Even the large Greek market did not show strong appetite, with only
            8,4% increase of the 2007 capacity into 2008. The minute state of
            Luxembourg (part of the Benelux to which Netherlands and
            Belgium
            also belong)
            had
            a peculiar
            negative
            correction
            (?) of
            its installed capacity growth in the period 2006-2007, but started
            growing again into 2008. Average European (EU27) growth numbers for
            these two years were 12,9 and 18,8%, respectively. 
       
      Concentrating
              Solar Power 
      In
            het EurOberv'ER rapport ook een interessant overzichtje van de stand
            van zaken rond de grootschalige productie van zonnestroom middels
          grote CSP centrales. Voor details van de stand van zaken gelieve verder
          te lezen op de website van
          GEZEN, die alle ins en outs van deze typische
          "industriële tak" van opwekking van hernieuwbare zonne-energie behandelt. 
      Anno 2008-2009 waren
           in Spanje actief: 
      
        - PS10 tower project,
            11 MW, project opgestart in 2006
 
        - Aznalcollar TH
            parabolische spiegelcentrale, 80 kW, opgestart in 2007
 
        - PS20
            vervolgproject met toren, 20 MW, opgestart in 2008
 
        - Andasol
            I, parabolische spiegelcentrale, 50 MW, in 2008
 
        - Andasol
            II, idem, 50 MW, in 2009
 
       
      Gepland
          voor 2009 en later: 
      
        - PE1/Puerto
            Errdo, lineaire Fresnel reflector, 1,4 MW, in 2009
 
        - 25 andere
            projecten, het merendeel de klassieke parabolische spiegelcentrales,
            met een totaal vermogen van 2.123 MW, vanaf 2010
 
       
      Andere landen
          doen ook wel iets, maar liggen ver achter op Spanje (binnen Europa). 
      
        - Eurodish research
            project, parabolische spiegels, 10 kW, al in 2004 opgestart (Frankrijk)
 
        - 3 andere projecten
            in Frankrijk, 3 technologieën, 13,45 MW totaal, vanaf 2010
 
        - Research tower
            project in Jülich, Duitsland, 1,5 MW, vanaf 2008
 
        - 2 projecten in
            Italië, een parabolische spiegelcentrale van 5 MW, en een compacte
            lineaire Fresnel reflector centrale van 6,5 MW, beiden vanaf 2010.
 
       
      Volgens EurObserv'ER
          zou er eind 2008 81 MW commercieel on-line zijn, en 232,4 MW eind 2009.
          De vooruitzichten zijn veelbelovend, zeker met het gigantische en
          met veel bombarie aangekondigde 100 GW Desertec project in Noord Afrika,
          wat voor veel politieke "clout" zorgt ter ondersteuning van de grootschalig
          toe te passen technologie. In Spanje en Italië zijn specifieke feed-in
          tarieven voor CSP stroom in
          het leven
          geroepen
          (26,9
          resp.
          22-28 eurocent/kWh). Volgens EurObserv'ER waren er eind 2008 wereldwijd
          al 679 MW aan CSP centrales  in bedrijf. 
       
      Progressie
              hernieuwbare elektriciteit per land 
      In
            deze grafiek uit het rapport (p. 93) wordt de situatie per land weergegeven
            met het percentage hernieuwbare elektriciteit in de stroomconsumptie
            voor 2008, de (Kyoto) doelstelling voor 2010. Nederland bezette in
          2008 al een onbetekenende 15e plaats met 7,8% "hernieuwbaar".
          Waarbij beslist aangetekend moet worden dat daar (deels ook praktijk
          in andere
          landen) een groot aandeel van twijfelachtige oorsprong bijzit (biomassa
          bijstook in fossiele
          energiecentrales
          van
          grote energieholdings, afvalverbranding met geschatte biogene fractie,
          grootschalige verbranding van kippenmest uit de bioindustrie, etc.).
          Dus zelfs al zou de beruchte "9% in 2010" met hakken over
          de sloot worden gehaald: we mogen daar nooit "trots" op zijn,
          omdat het fors bij elkaar gesjoemelde "nep-groene" elektriciteit
          zal blijken te gaan (die ook nog eens nooit kleinschalig geproduceerd
          zal kunnen worden). 
      Oostenrijk en Zweden
          nemen de leiding: ze hebben al vele jaren het "geluk" dat ze grote
          waterbekkens bezitten/gebouwd hebben, waar een zeer aanzienlijk deel
          van hun stroommix mee kan worden opgewekt. Ook dit soort projecten
          kunnen feitelijk alleen door grote, kapitaalkrachtige energieholdings
          worden uitgevoerd, en zijn beslist geen teken van een "gezonde decentrale
          energiemarkt". 
      Let op dat Duitsland
          en, surprise, Hongarije, als enige EU27 landen reeds
          (fors) over hun Kyoto doelstellingen zijn geraakt (bovenste zwarte
          balkje). 
        
      ^^^ 
            Figure 14. Share
          of renewable electricity  in  gross consumption in EU27. 2008 (upper
          bar) and 2010 objective (lower bar). 
        Nederland (rode
          pijlkop) zakt steeds verder weg en is nog op zijn hoogst te kwalificeren
          als een middenklasser binnen de EU27: in 2008 nog maar 7,8% "hernieuwbare"
          elektriciteit (voor een aanzienlijk
          deel van dubieuze "kwaliteit"),
          doelstelling voor 2010 is 9%. Alleen een wonder kan ons land nog "redden"
          en dat tussendoel
          op zijn hoogst met de hakken over de sloot "haalbaar" maken. Misschien
          nog wat extra gezonde geiten of een paar miljoen bioindustrie kippen
          afmaken om
          daar groene stroom van te maken? 
       
      Progressie
      hernieuwbare (primaire) energie per land 
      In deze grafiek uit
          het rapport (p. 90) wordt de situatie per land weergegeven met het
          percentage hernieuwbare primaire energie als aandeel
          van de totale consumptie voor 2008 (%). 
      Zweden, traditioneel
          al over enorm potentieel aan waterkracht en over uitgestrekte bossen
          beschikkend, neemt de leiding, verrassend gevolgd door het kleine oost-Europese
          land Litouwen en het zich ook rijk aan grootschalige waterkracht rekenende
          Oostenrijk. Let wel: dat zijn ook niet zwaar geïndustrialiseerde landen
          met niet al te grote bevolkingspopulaties, en dat zijn factoren die
          in dit soort grafieken natuurlijk extreem zwaar meewegen. 
      Vandaar dat het alom
          bewonderde en geloofde Duitsland hier nog niet erg hoog in voorkomt,
          pas op de 12e plaats vlak achter Italië wat natuurlijk ook al over
          een fors hydropower potentieel in de Alpen kan beschikken, wat Duitsland
          moet ontberen. Nederland doet het op dit vlak gruwelijk slecht, wat
          natuurlijk wordt verergerd door een hoge bevolkingsdichtheid en 
          gigantische, fossiele energie zuipende industriële sectoren zoals de
          enorme havenlokaties in de Europoort, andere energiezuipers als de
          Botlek, Moerdijk, DSM terreinen, en niet te vergeten: de gas verslindende
          glas- en tuinbouw industrie. Maar ook de ronduit dramatisch slecht
          ondersteunde "opbouw" van een hernieuwbare energiesector, en continue
          sabotage door veel te machtige partijen in ons land, maakt dat we ons
          met een schandalige 22e plaats "tevreden" moeten stellen, achter diverse
          oostblok landen, en net voor die andere achterlopers, Luxemburg (kan
          niet heel erg veel op hun kleine stukje grond), België (is aan een
          enorme inhaalrace bezig en heeft ons land op het vlak van zonnestroom
          al ver achter zich gelaten), super smeerpoets U.K. (die met peperdure
          quota systemen de eigen duurzame energiesector kort heeft gehouden,
          en ook nog eens zwaar lijkt te willen inzetten op de achterhaalde nukes),
          en dan nog twee kleine eilandstaatjes in de Mediterranée... 
      Het "gemiddelde"
          voor EU27 bedraagt nog slechts 8,2 procent. Daar moet nog gigantisch
          veel aan gebeuren, dat is wel duidelijk. 
        
      Figure
            15. Share of renewable energy 
            in the primary energy consumption in EU27 in 2008 
        Totale impact van "hernieuwbaar"
            (breed geïnterpreteerd) op de primaire energie
            consumptie
            in EU27.
            Nederland
            is een onbetekende
            factor geworden door jarenlange politieke sabotage, desinteresse
            en oe-ver-loos geouwehoer. 
       
      Links 
      http://www.eurobserv-er.org/ (homepage
        pagina van waar het rapport kan worden gedownload) 
      http://www.eurobserv-er.org/pdf/barobilan9.pdf (het
        rapport "The State of Renewable Energies in Europe/9th EurObserv'ER Report,
        171 pagina's, 6,61 MB) 
       
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