As in previous years, the August issue of Windpower Monthly is devoted to our annual abstract and headline index. Read more about the index on pages 18-19. Note that abstracts are prepared for the news and feature articles and leader column only; there are no abstracts of the monthly WindWire news notes, the WindTech Notes column, the Conference WindWires, the Green Market Digest, or The Windicator text. The Headline Index, however, includes headlines of all articles (page 50).
The global news is this month concentrated in the WindWire pages. The month's highlights include the recent scare in Germany over a possible European Commission attack on its wind power subsidy system for not complying with European law (page 6), sad news of no less than seven planning permit refusals for wind plants in Britain illustrating once again the desperate need for legislative intervention (page 8), and the fading hopes for a speedy reintroduction of wind's all important Production Tax Credit in the United States (page 12).
