\n\u2022 renewable energy is used mainly for electricity and heat production. Thanks to its Alpine topography, Austrian electricity generation is dominated by domestic hydropower \u2013 around 60% of total domestic electricity generation;
\n\u2022 wind power capacity grew very quickly, from 54 MW in 2000 to 1 300 MW in 2012. This places Austria among the European leaders in terms of the share of onshore wind power in energy supply;
\n\u2022 Austria has simple feed-in-tariff, no \u201cgreen\u201d auctions or any other subsidies;
\n\u2022 biomass sector almost employs half of the renewable energy sector with roughly 50% of the workforce;
\n\u2022 around 13% (2,8 GW of 21,8 GW) of the total installed capacity is accountable to wind power;
\n\u2022 share of Solar energy is 5% (=<\/span><\/span> 1.031 GW) of the 21.813 GW installed capacity;
\n\u2022 At the moment the RES installations are not held liable for imbalances they cause \u2013 but this will probably change in the near future (or at least it was planned to adopt the new Green Electricity Act this year;
\n\u2022 If RES is curtailed, they will be compensated. However, Austria in a comfortable position because they have a lot of hydropower and therefore, curtailment is not such a big issue. However, there was not a single case when a RES installation was compensated based on this regulation. This is because there weren`t any cases where it was really necessary to curtail RES;
\n\u2022 More data about FiT in Austria on the photo below.<\/p>\n
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