Trends in wind power deployment in Europe and Swedish municipalities

The deployment rate of wind power has varied over time in Swedish municipalities and in European countries. In this webinar, researchers from Chalmers University of Technology will present sociopolitical factors that influence the deployment and policy efforts that are needed to re-accelerate the trend.
 
Welcome to this joint webinar between Swedish Wind Centre (SWC) and Mistra Electrification. Yodefia Rahmad, Doctoral Student, and Marta Vetier, Postdoc, in Physical Resource Theory at Chalmers University of Technology, will present new studies.

Vincent Wretling, Senior Portfolio Manager Onshore Wind, Vattenfall will comment the results and discuss possible further research questions on the subject.

We will send out a Teams link to all registered persons on April 22nd.

 
Agenda

Yodefia Rahmad – Trends in wind technology and distribution of installation across Swedish municipalities.
•    Rapid increase in turbine sizes over the past 30 years across global markets, but slower growth in countries that began installing more recently.
•    Sweden leads globally in installing large-scale onshore wind turbines and constructing large wind parks.
•    Various sociopolitical factors influence the installation of different turbine sizes across Swedish municipalities.

 
Marta Vetier – Pulsating growth patterns of onshore wind power in Sweden and Europe and its implications for future deployment.
•    From 2019 to 2021 Sweden experienced one of the fastest growth rates in wind power capacity compared to all other global countries, however the speed of deployment slowed since 2022.
•    Our analysis of long-term growth patterns in other countries showed that the deployment of wind energy has been characterised by 6–8 year long growth pulses.
•    Our findings suggests that policy efforts are needed to reverse deployment trends from slowdown to re-acceleration.

Vincent Wretling
•    Comments on the presentations above.
•    Barriers for increased deployment rate of wind power in Sweden.
•    Possible solutions to remove barriers.
•    Additional questions research could answer.