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Maturity spawns responsibility

 
01 April 2006, 00:00am
 

The wind industry may have fought its way into the mainstream of the electricity business but there was little time to celebrate at this year's European Wind Energy Conference. Wafer-thin profit margins, technology failures, shortages of major components, and the knowledge that not all wind projects produce as they should made for a sober event wheresolving problems had greater priority than expounding the vision Out of the margins and into the mainstream, but with visionary ...

 

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