{"id":385131,"date":"2010-03-03T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9864176.post-7669002996189438442"},"modified":"2010-03-03T16:15:53","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T21:15:53","slug":"sweden-to-build-2000-new-wind-turbines-aims-for-50-renewables-by-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/385131","title":{"rendered":"Sweden to Build 2,000 New Wind Turbines, Aims for 50% Renewables by 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TreeHugger reports on Sweden&#8217;s progress towards a clean energy economy &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/files\/2010\/03\/sweden-to-build-2000-wind-turbines-2020-50-percent-renewables.php\">Sweden to Build 2,000 New Wind Turbines, Aims for 50% Renewables by 2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sweden&#8217;s Enterprise and Energy Minister Maud Olofsson announced that 2,000 new wind turbines will be built in the in the Scandinavian country over the next 10 years. This would add a projected 10 terawatt hours (TWh) per year of renewable energy generation to the country&#8217;s grid, which is already very low-carbon because it gets most of its power from nuclear and hydro.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sweden has extremely good prospects for rapidly increasing the production of renewable energy, especially from the burning of biofuels, cogeneration plants and windpower,&#8221; Olofsson wrote in a newspaper column.<\/p>\n<p>Sweden wants about 50% of its electricity to come from renewable sources by 2020 (this would mean more wind, but also more solar and biofuels).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/files\/2010\/03\/sweden-to-build-2000-wind-turbines-2020-50-percent-renewables.php\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/sweden-wind-turbines-photo-00001.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-2189376323632485\";\n\/* 728x90, created 5\/18\/08 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"3866831776\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 728;\ngoogle_ad_height = 90;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/9864176-7669002996189438442?l=peakenergy.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/WTmx_IcpPuh8ax57qPYYs9NHB_o\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/WTmx_IcpPuh8ax57qPYYs9NHB_o\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/WTmx_IcpPuh8ax57qPYYs9NHB_o\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/WTmx_IcpPuh8ax57qPYYs9NHB_o\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TreeHugger reports on Sweden&#8217;s progress towards a clean energy economy &#8211; Sweden to Build 2,000 New Wind Turbines, Aims for 50% Renewables by 2020. Sweden&#8217;s Enterprise and Energy Minister Maud Olofsson announced that 2,000 new wind turbines will be built in the in the Scandinavian country over the next 10 years. This would add a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":763,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/763"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}