Wind power in Hungary

Wind farm near Mosonszolnok

The installed capacity of wind power in Hungary was 329 MW as of April 2011.[1] Most of wind farms are in the Kisalföld region.

As of 1 April 2011, there were 39 operational wind farms in Hungary, with 172 turbines and 329 MW of installed capacity. In 2016 Hungary banned the building of wind turbines within 12km of populated areas, accordingly no new turbines have been constructed since then.[2]

Installed capacity

Main article: Wind power in the European Union
Year end Nameplate
capacity (MWp)		 Growth
MWp % of usage
2002 1 1 -
2003 2 1 100%
2004 3 1 50%
2005 17 14 466.7%
2006 61 44 258.9%
2007 65 4 6.6%
2008 127 62 95.4%
2009 201 74 58.3%
2010 295 94 46.8%
2011 331 36 12.2%
2012 325 -6 -1.8%
2013 329 4 1.2%
2014 329 0 -
2015 329 0 -
2016 329 0 -
2017 329 0 -
IEA-PVPS,[3] WindPower[4]

Cumulative PV capacity in megawatt-peak (MWp) since 2002

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Tenders

  • The first tender was written in 2006 and it contains 330 MW capacity. Till March 16, 2006 it received 1138 MW capacity.[5]
  • In 2009 Hungary tendered for 410 MW of new wind capacity. It received 68 bids totalling 1100 MW capacity,[6] but later the Hungarian Energy Office cancelled it.[7]

List of wind farms

Biggest Wind farms of Hungary
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Biggest Wind farms of Hungary.
Red: ≥30MWp; Blue: 30MW-10MWp.
List of the greatest wind farms (≥10MWp)
No. Name MWp Opened Number of
turbines
1 Ács Wind Farm (I., II.) 74 2008-2011 37 (19+18)
2 Kisigmánd Wind Farm[8] 50 2009 25
3 Ikervár Wind Farm (I., II.) 34 2011 17 (4+13)
4 Bőny Wind Farm 25 2009-2010 13
5 Levél Wind Farm 24 2006-2008 12
6 Sopronkövesd Wind Farm 23 2008 8
7 Mosonmagyaróvár Wind Farm (I.-VIII.) 21.2 2003-2008 12
8 Bábolna Wind Farm 15 2010 7 (6+1)
9 Jánossomorja Wind Farm 10 2010
Mosonszolnok Wind Farm (I., II.) 6 2002-2007 4

Biggest owners

More than 5 MWp: Felsőzsolca, Paks, Pécs, Visonta
Less than 5 MWp:
  • MET Power: Százhalombatta
  • Solar Markt: Csepreg, Kőszeg, Söjtör, Vép
  • ALTEO Group: Balatonberény (7 MWp), Nagykőrös (7 MWp), Monor (4 MWp)
EU and Hungary Wind Energy Capacity (MW)[9][10][11][12]
No Country 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998
- EU-27 105,696 93,957 84,074 74,767 64,712 56,517 48,069 40,511 34,383 28,599 23,159 17,315 12,887 9,678 6,453
17 Hungary 329 329 295 201 127 65 61 17 3 3 3 0 0 0 0

See also

References

  1. ^ Magyar Szélenergia Társaság
  2. ^ "Hungary to loosen its rules on deployment of wind turbines". 9 February 2023.
  3. ^ "RENEWABLE CAPACITY STATISTICS 2017" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-07-25. Retrieved 2023-10-07.
  4. ^ "Hungary - Wind farms - Countries - Online access - the Wind Power".
  5. ^ Szélenergia hasznosítás jövője 2020-ig Wind Industry's vision for 2020
  6. ^ Hungarian government overwhelmed with bids for wind energy licenses
  7. ^ Hungary scraps wind tender
  8. ^ Kisigmánd, a szélerőművek otthona
  9. ^ EWEA Staff (2010). "Cumulative installed capacity per EU Member State 1998 - 2009 (MW)". European Wind Energy Association. Retrieved 2010-05-22.
  10. ^ EWEA Staff (February 2011). "EWEA Annual Statistics 2010" (PDF). European Wind Energy Association. Retrieved 2011-01-31.
  11. ^ EWEA Staff (February 2012). "EWEA Annual Statistics 2011" (PDF). European Wind Energy Association. Retrieved 2011-02-18.
  12. ^ Wind in power: 2012 European statistics February 2013
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