23 January 2018
The kick-off meeting took place on 23 January 2018 in CICERO’s offices in Oslo. Stakeholders representing local and regional governments, environmental organisations, investors, electricity producers, national energy authorities and the wind energy business participated. The key objectives of the meeting were to establish the desk, to initiate a dialogue with the stakeholders and to create a network for discussions among the participants. The WinWind project was introduced, and the participants discussed the central concepts, targets and ideas in the project.
CICERO presented the preliminary findings from their literature review. Participants discussed the specifics of barriers and drivers for wind energy development which are particularly relevant for Norway and the local context in Fosen. Three issues arose as the most relevant for the Norwegian context:
Project partner NVE (the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate) gave a presentation on the status, method and preliminary findings from their work on a National Framework for Wind Energy Development in Norway. The project involves identifying areas that are most attractive for wind energy development and exclude areas that are not suitable. NVE will develop maps for the entire country that identify such areas.