Universidade de Vigo
Today the Juana de Vega Foundation, in collaboration with the Isla Couto Foundation and the University of Vigo, presented the GWO report “Economic impact of wind energy on the Galician rural environment: context, changes and opportunities”. The GWO is an initiative supported by the aforementioned Foundations through an agreement with the University of Vigo developed
The Galician Wind Observatory carries out an exhaustive and constant monitoring of the current wind farm procedures in Galicia. The GWO has observed important developments over recent weeks in one of the first areas in which public information is available, the environmental start-up procedure. Specifically, during the month of November the Ministry of Environment, Territory
The Galician Wind Observatory consistently compiles and analyzes the administrative processes of all wind farms throughout the Galician territory. As a result, the GWO has detected a significant rise in expropriation processes across Galicia over the last two years with about 20 wind farms adding more than 400 MW of wind power. This is a
Damián Copena, researcher of the Galician Wind Observatory, has recently written a chapter in the book Associativismo em Áreas Comunitárias (Associativism in Communitary Areas), published by the association Federação Nacional dos Baldios-BALADI. The chapter, entitled “Activities promoted or interfering with the waste by means of a lease agreement: the wind farms”, analyzes the processes linked
The Galician Wind Observatory took part as speakers at the VI International Workshop on Climate Change and Biodiversity, organized by the Federal University of Pernambuco in the Brazilian city of Recife (Pernambuco) from 29 to 31 October. With the participation of Dr. Xavier Simón, head of the OEGA, this workshop brought together a broad range