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A market of bubbles and bottlenecks
More and bigger business opportunities are bubbling forth in China than in any other wind market, but an obstacle course of bottlenecks ranging from acute skills shortages to a severe lack of quality ...
Renewables for all at reasonable cost
Just as the Kyoto Protocol's flexible mechanisms allow countries to cut their emissions where it is cheapest for them to do so, EU countries should have the same flexibility for meeting their share of...
Struggling with the offshore challenge
The word distant remains a fitting description of Germany's offshore wind power aspirations. Nearly all proposed projects are at great distance from the coast, have distant time horizons for const...
Exuberant call for concerted action
Provided government backs its words with bold action on new planning and transmission strategies, the UK will lead Europe in meeting its ambitious renewable energy targets, but the industry, grid comp...
All about keeping the momentum going
Despite coming off a year packed with positive policy initiatives at both federal and provincial levels of government, delegates to the Canadian Wind Energy Association's 23rd annual conference were n...
Rewards enough to cover offshore risk
The offshore ball is rolling once again in Britain, kicked into action by the government's decision in May to raise purchase prices for electricity fed into the grid by 50%. With 100 MW being commissi...
Policy upheaval threatens British market again -- Dissatisfaction over high cost of Renewables Obligation brings hail of alternative suggestions
British energy regulator Ofgem has renewed its call for the government to consider alternatives to the UK's green electricity support mechanism, the Renewables Obligation (RO) -- or at least to reform...
China flexes its clean development muscles
The effectiveness of the Kyoto Protocol's clean development mechanism in fostering renewable energy and the transfer of clean technology has received a deal of bad press, but for wind power in China i...
A national plan for future well being
France has embarked on a massive exercise to map out its policy for dealing with climate change, starting with a blank sheet of paper and involving the whole country. The renewables lobby has fed a de...
Chinese rush on shaky foundations
Among the major challenges as China's wind market continues to grow will be maintaining product quality and efficient business practices so that full benefits to the environment and economy are achiev...
Utility sector seizes leadership role
The wind industry's battle for acceptance as a serious member of the electricity business looks well on the way to being won in America. The country's utilities, demonstrating a new grasp of wind powe...
Speeding along the path to respectability
Once ridiculed by the established power sector, wind is now well on the way to being a least cost resource. As befits a generation technology ready to play a major role in electricity supply, the domi...
Air leaks out of Brazil balloon
Brazil, not so long ago bursting with potential for serious levels of commercial wind development, is increasingly looking like a market with the air gone out of it. Its existing market framework is c...
Storing up trouble in Japan
Wind power in Japan is taking a battering, but this time it has nothing to do with typhoons and tornadoes and everything to do with the government's willingness to swallow utility tales about the proh...
Roaring ahead in China and India
In 2005, Australia's leading renewables developer, Hydro Tasmania, turned its sights overseas, joining forces with an Asian counterpart to form Roaring 40s with the primary aim of developing wind farm...
Indian contender beats nuclear rival -- Suzlon takes control of German Repower
The four month battle for control of German wind turbine builder Repower Systems is over. Indian competitor Suzlon emerged victorious late last month, with 60% of Repower coming under its control afte...
Europe back as the main driving force
Political changes over the past year have led BTM Consult to revise its opinion of a stagnating market in Europe and improve its five-year forecast for global wind market growth. Once again its annual...
Daring to bet big on US manufacturing
The political will in America to support renewable energy is at last deemed strong enough for a range of wind power companies to risk investment in manufacturing in the United States. Blades are takin...
Cheaper finance helps offset rising turbine costs
As investors flood into the market and competition between them reduces the expected returns on investment, the dramatic fall in the cost of financing wind power development is helping balance the ris...
Grappling with an overheated market
Given a forum for open and frank debate, wind project developers in North America made good use of it to air grievances about steeply rising technology costs, weaker manufacturer warranties and the do...
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