While, in Finland, it takes a little more than 8 months to get all necessary authorizations for building a wind farm, in Spain it takes almost 6 years!!! (see ref)
I.e., it takes 7 times more time to get the authorization in Spain than in Finland. In Europe, only portugal is worse.
The info surprises me, having in mind how big wind power is in Spain. With it's 18900 wind turbines (2010) it is the second country in Europe with most turbines. Only Germany has more (21600 turbines). (see ref and wikipedia)
From an investors point of view, this must be a problem. You normally would not even know which technology that will be available within 6 years. How is the business case made? On which assumptions? Obviously the subventions has been generous enough to compensate for this uncertainty.
Sweden has not so much bragging-rights either. With it's 3,5 years to authorization it is also among the worst countries in the comparison.
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