• Energy installed for electricity production –> 35 890 MW
• Consumption amounts to 155TWh

• Total use of energy in Poland is approx. 98 Mtoe
• Poland has the largest resources of shale gas in Europe, which may be the future prime source of energy
• By 2022 the government want to build the first nuclear power plant
• Wind energy is growing very fast. For the past 10 years it grew by 25-30% per year, and last year it grew by 52% reaching approx 1.4 GW
• Biomass potential in Poland is very high due to big area and a lot of forests
• GDF Suez is planning to open a biomass power plant at the end of 2012 with a potential of 190 MW
• Till now there is no only biomass power plant
• There are 4 that are burning biomass but are combined with fossil fuels

Solar CSP

• unfortunately it doesn’t exist in Poland

Photovoltaics

• it is not that common
• one plant in Warsaw connected with the grid
• it is commonly used for sea signalization systems, but the energy used is around 20 kW

Malaysia Energy: General Overview

• Malaysia produces and utilizes both conventional and renewable sources of energy.

• The largest conventional energy resource found in Malaysia is petroleum (i.e. oil and gas).

• According to the Oil & Gas Journal (OGJ), Malaysia held proven oil reserves of 4 billion barrels as of January 2010, and its oil reserves are reported to be the third highest in the Asia-Pacific region.

• Malaysia was the world’s tenth largest holder of natural gas reserves in 2010 and the second largest exporter of liquefied natural gas after Qatar in 2009. OGJ states that Malaysia held 83 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of proven natural gas reserves as of January 2010.

• Coal deposits can also be found in Malaysia. However, only a small percentage is being mined.

• The most important sources of renewable energy in Malaysia are biomass and solar and sustainable use of energy has been emphasised in the country’s development plans and supported by Government initiatives.

• Under the 10th Malaysia Plan, the Government will be introducing the feed-in tariff (FiT) of 1% to be incorporated into the electricity tariffs of consumers to support the development of renewable energy.

Oil and Gas Industry

* The total energy consumption statistic includes petroleum, dry natural gas, coal, net hydro, nuclear, geothermal, solar, wind, wood and waste electric power.
**GDP figures from Global Insight estimates based on purchasing power parity (PPP) exchange rates.

Wind Energy

• While Malaysia only has an average wind speed of 2m/s, there are areas that more than meet the 7m/s minimum criterion. For example, wind along the Malaysian-Thai border is believed to be at nearly 15m/s.

Source: Wikipedia 

Solar Power

• Has been utilizing solar on small scale, but has no solar power plant.
• At the moment, Malaysia plans to build its first solar power plant in Putrajaya.
• The plant’s generating capacity may be too small but it marks a major step forward in the country’s drive to harness renewable energy sources.
• The main concern is the need for large tracts of land.
• While Malaysia has a rich supply of sunlight and should be aggressively tapping solar power, one concern is that unlike some Western nations, Malaysia does not have unproductive land. Thus, there will be an economic trade-off as its soil is fertile.
• Nonetheless, Malaysia intends to build the power plant to gain more knowledge on its process and to also educate and encourage the people on the use of green technology.

Hydro Power

• Tenaga Nasional Berhad operates three hydroelectric schemes in the peninsular with an installed generating capacity of 1,911 megawatts (MW).
• They are the Sungai Perak (1249 MW), Terengganu (400 MW) and Cameron Highlands (262 MW) hydroelectric schemes with 21 dams in operation.
• A number of Independent Power Producers also own and operate several small hydro plants.
• At present, hydro power is the only renewable energy source in Malaysia that is considered to be economically viable on a large scale.

Geothermal

• Four potential geothermal power generation sites that could collectively generate more than 2MW of electricity in Peninsular Malaysia have been identified.
• The company that is proposing to run the project hopes to secure a 60% confidence level by 2012 and 90% by 2013.
• Once the 90% confidence level is achieved, the company would begin exploratory drilling in those four sites. The projects are expected to be fully implemented by 2016.
• Currently, the company faces challenges with state governments & private land owners.
• There are also more than 40 thermal springs in Peninsular Malaysia and most of these springs are good potential sites to generate geothermal power as part of the nation’s plan to enhance its renewable energy potential.
• Malaysia is in the first phase of a feasibility study on the prospects of generating geothermal power in the four undisclosed locations in the peninsula.
• The country still faces challenges in promoting renewable energy technology, which include the reliability of the technology, difficulty in integrating renewable energy into the main power grid as well as the high capital costs.

SPAIN

Renewable energy in Spain represented 12.5% of total energy generation in 2009.
Spain´s objective is generating 20% of its energy needs from renewable energy sources by 2020.
Altogether, clean energy in Spain met 42.2% of electricity demand though this was down from 48.5 percent against March 2010.

WIND POWER

·            Spain is the world’s fourth biggest producer of wind power with an installed capacity of 19,959 MW at the end of 2010.

·            Wind turbines generated nearly 43 TWh in 2010 for 16.4% of supply, slightly more than hydroelectricity.

·            The Spanish Wind Energy Association AEE lists several reasons for the country’s leading position in the European wind energy market,among them: mother nature, have experienced a year of high winds in 2010 and the sector’s use of more advanced turbines,

·            Spain’s region Castilla-La Mancha is working to install 6,000 MW of wind parks by 2015 in hopes to take the lead in the country’s booming wind-power market

SOLAR ENERGY

·Spain is one of the most advanced countries in the development of solar energy technology,considering its excellent sun irradiation and PV potential

·Spain generated 3% of its Electricity from Solar in 2010.

·Solar power in Spain was 4 GW by the end of 2010 and solar energy produced 6.9 TW·h,

·Spain is the fourth largest manufacturer in the world of solar power technology and exports 80 % of this output to Germany.

·Spanish solar industry has seen investment plunge in the past two years with only 100 MW of generating capacity having been installed in 2009 and 2010 – compared to 2,700 MW in 2008.

· La Florida plant in the northern state of Navarra is the world’s largest solar plant.

BIOMASS
Spain is particularly known for using biomass from forest waste,
especially woody biomass, for heating. It is European leader in so-called
“mountain forests”, the principal use of which is to produce wood for

energy.

• Biomass is obtained from a wide variety of plentiful sources (forest waste, olive stones, nutshells, etc.), which guarantees an uninterrupted and abundant supply anywhere in our country.

• In 2009, the Ministry of the Environment and Rural and Marine Reserves (MARM) finalised the “Spanish Strategy for Promoting the Use of Forest Waste Biomass for Energy” under the guidance of the National Forest Committee

• Ence Group, with a total capacity of 180 MW, is the leading company in Spain in utilization of biomass. In 2009 the Group launched the largest forest biomass plant in the country with an installed capacity of 37 MW and an annual consumption of 380,000 tons of forest biomass. Today the company is building an even larger plant in the province of Huelva, with an installed capacity of 50 MW, equivalent to the electricity supply around 600,000 households.