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Post-2012 Climate: Climate deal pressure mounts
By mid-October the world's governments still appeared to be struggling towards coming together to ensure a positive outcome for December's crucial climate change summit in Copenhagen. But with so much...
Reinvest plans two projects totalling 53 MW
Swiss renewables developer Reinvest is planning two projects with a combined capacity of 53 MW. In the Vaud canton, in the west of the country, the 39 MW Parc Eolien de la Grandsonnaz project will use...
Time to come clean
Wind power is clean, but its supposed champions can be pretty grubby at times. In 2008, wind became the leading growth energy technology in both the EU and the US -- a timely breakthrough given that ...
The American imperative
Wind power is one of the few "shovel ready" answers to the current economic and climate crises, providing the wind industry with an historic opportunity to become a true economic powerhouse while help...
Special Report Europe 2020 - Last word - Risky investment in energy must stop
The financial crisis was brought on by too many, investing too much of their wealth in risky assets, such as mortgage-backed securities (MBS) and collateralized debt obligations (CDO). Financial insti...
Good deal structure tactics reduce cost
Cheaper wind turbines and balance-of-plant hardware are only two elements of bringing down the cost of wind energy. Much can also be gained by improving transportation and installation logistics and p...
Special Report - Opportunity and Risk in China - Last Word - China takes the lead on exceeding expectations
Steve Sawyer, secretary general of the Global Wind Energy Council, reflects on the astonishing growth he has witnessed in China's wind market over the past five years and on what needs to be done to m...
A second wind
Emerging markets like China present their own challenges to the international wind industry but the established ones are hardly a sure bet either. California, once the golden poster child for wind pow...
Opportunity knocks
In case anyone was in doubt, China is the land of opportunity for wind power players. The country is planning 30,000 MW of wind by 2020 and by some indications it will not only get there, but shoot pa...
Engel, Vestas and the will to win
In my three decade boom and bust career in wind power I've seen all manner of business, including brilliance, bankruptcies and bull. But Ditlev Engel's radical turnaround of Vestas' global fortune has...
Time to shift approach
Just like 25 years ago, when the modern wind industry was created in response to the oil shocks of the 1970s, we are at a defining moment in the history of energy supply. Energy has moved to the top o...
Quietly leading the world
Wind energy in New Zealand now competes with every other form of electricity generation on its own merits, without even taking account of the negative externalities associated with thermal generation....
Opening the floodgates
Spain's wind sector has a new target of 20 GW for 2010 (page 42). It replaces a 13 GW cap. With over 9000 MW now in operation, that cap had come to resemble a firm limit. Its removal confirms a new er...
Not value for money
Not even its most ardent supporters -- if there are any -- could argue that Britain's Renewables Obligation (RO) offers best value for money to the electricity consumer. It has been successful in stim...
Making the best of both worlds -- As the wind industry transforms itself from its books, beards and lentil soup background there are issues that need careful consideration. MegaCorp does not have all
As the industry transforms itself from its books, beards and lentil soup beginnings, there are issues that need careful consideration. It was inspired and innovative people who grew the industry, not ...
Not without risk
The strategic manoeuvring behind the Vestas-NEG Micon merger aspires to make the small provincial town of Randers, in the centre of the Kingdom of Denmark, the epicentre of the world of wind turbine m...
Investment grade
They say money makes the world go round. It's going to take about $110 billion to make the next decade's forecast windmills spin around. Just the margin for error in that calculation is equal to about...
What chance Latin America?
Despite much talk on wind in Latin America, the fact is that countries as economically important as Brazil and Mexico have only 22 MW installed capacity between them. Things are changing though. Argen...
An Olympian change
Wind weenies have always known the wind's advantages. But there's more and more proof that the message is getting out to the general public, to trend spotters, and to big business and the financial co...
A thinking man's incentive
Canada's Federal Finance Minister Paul Martin has promised a new long-term program to provide incentives for the production of wind power. It finally puts wind power on Canada's political agenda -- an...
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