About 1500 "winner" will be held Monday at lottery photovoltaic identify funding in Austria. 7000 applicants could submit their applications despite überlastetem server to get hold of some of the € 18 million funding for their project. In the previous year and within 18 minutes 9 million were distributed to 820 projects. Formally, the application deadline is still November, de facto, the delivery was exhausted within a few hours. More specifically, it is oversubscribed by 350 percent (see chart). In Styria, has even filed almost nine times the amount than can be ultimately approved. And these figures are those that failed because of the overloaded server and not to come to place their projects, not yet included.
This is annoying in several ways:
means for the project operator, the approach that they are open all year round in the dark as to whether they will succeed, put in the too few hours long time frame their project so to realize with luck maybe to. One can perhaps forgive tickets for a football championship, but not funding for projects, which requires careful planning and calculation is based. Not least because of these unacceptable conditions we have this award also criticized by the Greens economy. A funding model based on feed-in tariffs would certainly fairer.
given is Resources are far too low. This shows not only the rush - it could be implemented much more projects - but also in international comparison ridiculously low investment in photovoltaic power in Austria. Czech Republic, for example, expects this year with the installation of 100 MWp, with Germany about 2000, in Austria, it is hoped this year to exceed the first 10 MWp line. 2008 new plants were installed with a total capacity of about 3 MWp, less than half of the year 2003 and only 1 / 50 of the German Zubaus - compared per capita, mind you.
Not much else is different with wind energy. "Thanks" to the Green Electricity Act In 2006, the year 2007, only ten wind turbines with a total of 19.5 MW and built in 2008, only seven plants with 14 MW. 2003 to 2006 we had increased to an average of 100 plants with 200 MW per year. "With the current rate of expansion we need 50 years to reach the green power law target of 700 MW of wind power that is provided there for 2015. The seven terawatt-hours, we need to meet the EU target in 2020 would be the first in 180 years reached "criticized Mag Stefan Hantz, CEO of IG wind , during the presentation of the annual Balance Sheet 2008.
While in Germany the market for renewable energy creates "daily 80 new jobs," , is in Austria is still far too little energy in the topic. There are private initiatives by committed entrepreneurs and private households, are driving the subject of renewable energy. Politicians hesitate. The ministers and Berlakovic Mitterlehner have the "Energeistrategie Austria" set targets, which fall short of EU requirements. The environmental organization Greenpeace, WWF and Global 2000 protested. By October, in time for the climate conference in Copenhagen, to deliver concrete results, the working groups. Currently, however, leaves nothing to the conclusion that by the Federal government would put more energy into an energy revolution. Who knows, may need it again in winter closed gas taps in Russia in order to effect a change, if enough to get job arguments, apparently existing commitment to public and private sector and internationally binding climate change targets do not help the retro-politicians in the Federal Government to the jumps .
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