Wind

In our newsletter on Monday we highlighted five of the major talking points we expected to see at the Offshore Wind Energy 2017 conference, run by WindEurope and RenewableUK, in London this week. And, at the end of the first day, all have featured heavily.

We all know MHI Vestas and Siemens Gamesa are locked in a race to deliver the biggest and best offshore turbines — but who has the best offshore wind simulator? This is one of our big questions at this week’s Offshore Wind Energy 2017 conference in London, so we decided to try them both.

In November 2015, the WindEurope annual conference took place in Paris three days after terrorists killed 130 people in the city, including 89 at the Bataclan theatre. We wrote at the time that it was right for the event to go ahead. The world, and wind, cannot stand still.

Is it possible to have an energy system based entirely on renewable sources? That was one of the questions that speakers grappled with during a session at the Financial Times Energy Transitions Strategies conference in London, part of FT Clean Energy Week, on Wednesday last week.

Are you being honest with your investors? There are a host of pitfalls facing companies that are reporting on the impacts of climate change and energy transition on their business, and failing to do so can open these companies and their investors to losses. Are you at risk?