Financing Wind

A Word About Wind talks to Joar Viken, CEO of Norwegian wind developer NBT, about the company's developments in China and Ukraine.

Changes in the offshore wind sector are leading to new risks. In this post, Robert Bates from GCube Insurance identifies five you should know about.

Wind companies should be wary of making data commitments now that could hamper them in future. In this post, Jonas Corné highlights the biggest risks.

Proxy generation power purchase agreements are a new type of corporate PPA that helps off-takers to better manage some of the risks in these deals.

European and American firms can work together to help the US to achieve an offshore wind boom. That was the verdict of offshore experts at our Financing Wind North America conference in Denver.

The emergence of floating wind was a key trend from our European Power List report in June 2019. Ilaria Valtimora looks at recent deals in the sector in Europe.

Our Financing Wind conferences may focus on onshore and offshore wind, but the discussion and expertise of our attendees goes far beyond that.

Before you buy a ticket to an event, you want to know who else is going. In this post, we look at who's going to be at Financing Wind Europe this year.

The two utilities are set to put together their offshore wind assets and projects in a new and as-yet-unnamed joint venture, starting with a total of 1.5GW under construction and 4GW under development.

In the first session at our Financing Wind North America conference in April, we looked at the expiry of the wind production tax credit in 2020 – and asked if this is really the end.

Miguel Prado is CEO of EDP Renewables North America, heading up a significant regional presence for the world’s fourth-largest wind energy producer. We spoke with him to discuss EDPR’s priorities as the PTC cliff approaches, evolving PPA structures and technological innovations in wind energy.

What were you doing on Valentine’s Day in 2018? For Balki Iyer, co-founder and chief growth officer at New York-based digital firm Utopus Insights, the answer is being acquired by Vestas – and it was, he told us, a whirlwind romance.