Towards an age of renewables

Berthold Goeke

Deputy Director General “Renewable Energies"

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Energy Concept - Reduction

targets for greenhouse gases

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Energy Concept - Targets for

renewable energies (electricity)

Development of electricity generation from renewable

energy sources in Germany

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Hydropower Wind energy

Biomass * Photovoltaics

* Solid and liquid biomass, biogas, sewage and landfill gas, biogenic share of waste; electricity from geothermal energy not presented due to negligible quantities produced; 1 GWh = 1 Mill. kWh;

StromEinspG: Act on the Sale of Electricity to the Grid; BauGB: Construction Code; EEG: Renewable Energy Sources Act;

Source: BMU-KI III 1 according to Working Group on Renewable Energy Sources-Statistics (AGEE-Stat); image: BMU / Christoph Edelhoff; as at: March 2011; all figures provisional

StromEinspG:

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Amendment to BauGB:

November 1997

EEG:

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EEG:

January 2009

EEG:

August 2004

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Development of renewables in

Germany (electricity)

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Guidelines

� Continuation of the dynamic expansion of renewableenergies in the electricity sector

� Continuation of the tried-and-tested approach of theEEG, particularly the principle of priority feed-in

� Market integration, e. g. with introduction of new

incentives such as the market and flexibility premium

� Cost efficiency, e. g. by adjustment of tariffs

Amendment to the Renewable

Energy Sources Act (EEG) 2012

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� Support of energy research is an important part of energy policy in order to meet the growing energy and climate policy challenges

� Focus on renewable energies and energy efficiencyas well as storage and grid technologies

� Allocated budget amounts to 3.5 bn Euro until 2014, incl. 1.3 bn Euro for research in the field of renewables

� Support of applied research in the field of renewablesto advance RE technologies as well as system and gridintegration of renewables

Germany’s Energy Research

Programme

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� Global market for green technologies is large and expanding, especially for renewables

� Markets for renewables developed despite financial and economic crisis

� Framework conditions for renewables are crucial, such as advancing and supporting technological progress, ensuring a stabile investment and financing environment

� Benefits are - creating and securing jobs- maintaining competitiveness- safeguarding the climate protection target

Transformation of energy

system as opportunity

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� Turkey has a considerable economic and technical

potential (not only in hydropower, but also in wind energy, solar power, geothermal power and biomass)

� Adoption of new feed-in tariffs and attractive support mechanisms in order to tap this potential beyond

hydropower

� Turkey is among the global leaders in solar thermal

energy

� German-Turkish cooperation for exchange of experience

and further expansion of renewable energies

German perception of

Turkish RE issues

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Example policy dialogue

� Multi-year project to develop the feed-in tariff system in Turkey Partners: GIZ and Turkish Energy Ministry

� German-Turkish Energy Forum with six working groups, one on RE

Example training and capacity building

� Project to tap Turkish biogas potential focuses on the construction of a pilot plant and includes a range of training activitiesPartners: GIZ and Turkish Environment Ministry

Example cooperation between companies

� Construction of a 50 megawatt wind park on Cesme peninsular

German-Turkish cooperation in

the field of renewable energies

Thank you

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