Dickson addressed delegates of the Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Stakeholder Forum in Brussels. He highlighted that the transport and heating sectors will represent over 25% of energy demand by 2030, with huge potential for electrification.
New applications and projects are emerging such as the hydrogen-powered trains that will be deployed in Germany from 2018 onwards. Dickson identified this as an opportunity where surplus wind power in the North of Germany could power trains, which would help address the challenges of increasing curtailment.
Dickson stressed the need to focus on business models that ensure hydrogen can be produced from renewables and wind energy sources. For example, the Guarantees of Origin scheme should be improved so that producers and consumers can be certain that the hydrogen they use comes from renewable-generated power. Dickson noted that the hydrogen industry could also play a role in long-term Power Purchase Agreements. Wind power represents more than 80% of all Europe’s electricity purchases through corporate PPAs.
About EWT
Emergya Wind Technologies (EWT) is a Dutch designer and manufacturer of utility standard high performance direct drive wind turbines of 500kW to 1MW, classified under IEC class IIA and IIIA. Increasingly EWT is also providing energy sales and energy saving solutions to customers in selected jurisdictions, linked primarily to value derived from the kWhrs generated by energy savings accrued from the EWT turbine.
Targeted on the decentralised wind sector
With over 600 turbines spinning across North America, Europe and Asia, EWT has very much a proven, certified and highly performing range of direct drive wind turbines. We fully focus on the decentralised wind sector, including energy solutions integrating with other sources of generation. EWT supplies a broad range of customers, across many countries. From landowners to investment funds, communities to medium scale industry.
High availability and high output
Customers benefit from high availability and high output relative to peers, generating high customer value through maximising income from kWhr generation and/or saving significantly through offsetting more expensive grid supplied power. This can be through a single turbine, a cluster of turbines, or in combination with other forms of generation, such as our integrated solutions in Alaska where EWT combines wind energy with diesel generation to create greater energy savings and security.
EWT’s service offerings
EWT is offering complete service packages which are tuned to the customer’s maintenance needs. The DIRECTWIND service package are available for periods of 5 or 10 years, including preventive maintenance, consumables, spare parts and 24/7 condition monitoring. The service packages go hand-in-hand with the excellent product and performance (power curve and availability) warranties that era being offered on the turbines.
Energy demand in Turkey
Turkey has become one of the fastest growing energy markets in the world – including a huge potential in renewable energy, because of its expensive fossil fuel. Therefor EWT established a sales office and staff in Turkey a few years ago, to offer cost-effective energy solutions to meet the energy needs of many customers. Our focus in Turkey is on the so-called unlicensed projects up to 1MW. Wind power generation investments are expected to grow in country in parallel to the target of decreasing abundancy in fossil fuels.
EWT Enerji Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş.
EWT installed its first two DW54-900kW turbines of many to come in Turkey, building on the trust of its clients and the proven global strength of its products as the best in class wind turbine. EWT is able to supply the energy needs of many customers like farmers, industrial clients and municipalities with its proven technology and service support. EWT offers long term maintenance and service contracts to its customers which includes availability and power curve guarantees.
Offsetting energy costs
EWT wind turbines can also be directly connected to the customer’s electrical network in order to reduce the owner’s reliance on electricity from the national grid and to offsetting their current energy costs. Recently a local service team has started to service and maintain the installed base, which will increase rapidly coming years, due to EWT’s large sales pipeline. EWT will continue to share the experience gained internationally on distributed power with Turkish investors.
