Mortimer Menzel is a partner at Augusta & Co., and has worked in the investment banking and legal sectors for almost three decades. In this post, he looks at how the wind sector should respond to growing levels of merchant risk. Mortimer will be speaking at our Financing Wind Europe 2019 conference on 31st October in London.
Despite the bold plans, A Word About Wind found Vattenfall’s wind head Gunnar Groebler in cautious mood when we met at the annual conference of WindEurope – where he is chairman – in Bilbao in April.
A Word About Wind spoke to Damkjaer for the first time since taking over the CEO role in February.
In November, Madgwick became CEO at Red Rock Power, which is the European power arm of China’s State Development & Investment Corporation. A Word About Wind caught up with him to find out the company’s plans for wind in Europe, the big challenges he sees for offshore wind cost-cutting, and misconceptions about China.
Anders Runevad last week announced his decision to leave as chief executive of the world’s leading wind turbine maker, which he joined in 2013.
In this article, we’re going to share three of the key issues that we discussed on the day, with a particular focus on areas that we didn’t cover as much in the report.
Tomorrow we are set to launch our European PPA Trends special report, at an invitation-only networking event in London, in partnership with Augusta &Co. and event host Bird & Bird.
It’s an interesting time to be discussing the PPAs that companies in the wind sector are signing with corporates and other long-term energy buyers across Europe.
The structure was launched in 2016 by a group led by Allianz Risk Transfer, which is part of German insurance giant Allianz, and including evaluation and analytics risk management firm REsurety and investment manager Nephila Climate.
The key to unlock the full potential of offshore wind in the North Sea, and elsewhere, could be linked to the development of power-to-gas technologies. Utilities, manufacturers and developers are now looking at ways to tie up offshore wind power production to hydrogen generation.
Europe’s wind industry has just been through the worst year for installations for seven years - and, in onshore wind alone, the worst year for a decade. This is according to WindEurope statistics.
I haven’t enjoyed a ‘will they, won’t they?’ story this much since Ross and Rachel.
