Universidade de Vigo
The Galician Wind Observatory (GWO) is a tool for research, information, assessment and consultation created for all individuals, companies and groups interested in wind energy in Galicia. The GWO stemmed from the collaboration between the Juana de Vega Foundation, the Isla Couto Foundation and the University of Vigo. Since June 2023, the Paideia Galiza Foundation is part of the Observatory's board of trustees. The collaboration was sealed in a Convention signed by Manuel Joaquín Reigosa Roger, Rector of the University of Vigo; Manuel Meixide, president of the Isla Couto Foundation; Enrique Sáez, president of the Juana de Vega Foundation; and Sandra Ortega Mera, president of the undación Paideia Galiza.
The observatory is led by the Research Group on Ecological Economics, Agroecology and History. It aims to conduct research on the wind sector in Galicia to transfer knowledge among participating agents, favor the transparency of Wind farm land occupation processes and reveal the positive impacts of wind power on the rural world.
The GWO is open to your consultations, questions or doubts through the contact form.
The Galician Wind Observatory is born from the collaboration between the University of Vigo, the Juana de Vega Foundation and the Isla Couto Foundation. This is an initiative that promotes cooperation between the public and the private sector. It establishes synergies among different Entities to achieve common goals associated to the rural world.
The GWO creation process is reflected in a Convention signed by Joaquín Reigosa, Rector of the University of Vigo; Manuel Meixide, president of the Isla Couto Foundation; and Enrique Sáez, president of the Juana de Vega Foundation.
GWO is led by the Research Group on Ecological Economics, Agroecology and History at the University of Vigo that has been studying the processes related to wind farms in the rural Galician world for over 10 years.
ALLIANCE BETWEEN PARTIES
The collaboration between 3 private entities, the Isla Couto, Juana de Vega and Paideia Galiza Foundations, and a public entity, the University of Vigo, for the creation and start-up of the Galician Wind Observatory, creates a space for collaboration that is open to the participation of all the actors who have among their objectives the strengthening of the rural world. Farmers and their organizations, social, cultural and environmental movements and local, regional and state institutions are called to open communication channels that allow us to design development strategies for rural communities where they are the protagonists.
The Galician Wind Observatory aims to be an open space for all of them. We encourage you to send us your ideas and suggestions.The GWO will develop actions aimed at promoting the transfer of quantitative and qualitative information among participating agents to favor the transparency of wind farm land occupation processes and reveal their positive impacts on the rural world. Complementarily, it may propose territorial regulatory changes as well as changes in energy planning.
In addition to serving as a repository of legal, economic and environmental information on wind farms and conducting studies and socio-economic and institutional analyses on wind energy, the observatory will provide free counsel/assessment to rural agents in wind farm negotiation processes as a mechanism for strengthening the position of the rural agent and favoring increased income derived from wind power in rural areas.
On the other hand, the GWO will participate in the development of actions aimed at promoting an inclusive energy transition, which encourages the participation of rural communities as protagonists of the new energy and ecological model.
