ABSTRACT
This road is called green because it can be an open road towards 100% renewable energy, where wind power might supply 60% to 80% of the present type of electricity consumption, and also a large part of transportation and heat supply (Morthorst et al., 2011). This is caused by both its bottom-up democratic approach, which leads to increased acceptance of wind power and more wind power projects, and its efficient solutions to the intermittency challenge by integrating electricity production with heat and transportation consumption again making a high percentage of wind power possible. Black wind power is characterised by (a) Top-down wind power planning combined with distant ownership models, with large power companies and investment corporations as owners (b) Trying to solve the intermittency challenges of wind power by electricity sector-based “smart grid” solutions in combination with extensive investments in a high-tension power grid system (c) A process with closed top-down research activities without any local and regional participationThis is called black wind power as it may become a blind alley potentially ending up in a black wall of continued use of coal based electricity production. This may happen, both because of its undemocratic top down approach, which leads to resistance towards wind power projects and therefore less wind power.
