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R&D Funding for Wind Energy


Wind energy contributes to the priorities set out by the Lisbon Strategy (2000). This strategy sets the European Union the goal of becoming “the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world, capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion” by 2010. These objectives were complemented in 2002 at the Barcelona European Council, where heads of states agreed that research and technological development (RTD) investment in the EU must be increased with the aim of reaching 3 per cent of GDP by 2010, up from 1.9 per cent in 2000 (1.84 per cent in 2006 for EU-27). 


If the Barcelona 3 per cent objective is to be fulfilled, wind energy R&D investment would have to represent an average of EUR430 million per year. Two-thirds of this budget should be invested by the private sector and one-third by the public sector.


Average public annual support would then be EUR143 million per year. If 50 per cent of this support is provided by national (Member States) programmes, and 50 per cent from EC programmes, the average contribution from the EC and from the national programmes should each be EUR72 million per year and increase with market turnover. The following section investigates past and current funding levels for wind energy R&D.

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