Process for the Implantation of Wind Farms in the Basque Country Autonomous Community

Abstract

It has been analyzed the implantation process of wind farms in scope of Basque Country Autonomous Community (BCAC) through Plan 3É-2005 - Euskadi Power Strategy 2005- that contains planning territorial and sectorial of energy and more concretely Plan Territorial Sectorial (PTS) of wind energy (Decree 104/2002 of May 14), which it is the instrument that fixes the orientation guidelines and criteria to the selection of the suitable locations for the advantage of the wind natural resource and therefore the search of the best territorial arrangement of the wind farms, within the resulting effective arrangement of the Directives of Arrangement of the Territory (DOT). AII it with the objective put in reaching in 2005 to increase the participation of the renewable energies in the final consumption of electrical energy of the Basque Country Autonomous Community of present 2.7%, to 12% in 2010, where a 3% will come from the wind energy. For it, it will be necessary to install a power of 175 MW in Wind farms, with an investment of 142 million euros.