Wind

German giant Siemens is pressing ahead with the spin-off of its power and gas operations despite the economic impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic.

On Monday, the ruling coalition of Christian Democrats and Social Democrats agreed to drop the idea of a national 1km distance rule for onshore wind.

This week, law firm Ashurst has published a report, ‘Powering Change’, which shares the views of 2,090 executives in the G20 about the energy transition.

Have you ever written? Then you’ll know the rule of three.

Governments have a unique opportunity to super-charge the wind industry. But will they have the confidence to take it?

In 1991, the first offshore wind turbines were built in front of the Danish town Vindeby. It then took ten years to build a first commercial-size project, and five more years before private banks were able to take construction risk on a non-recourse basis, financing the Q7 project in the Netherlands.

On Thursday 9th April, we were joined by a panel of experts to discuss that question and others in our inaugural webinar, ‘How will a Covid-led recession affect wind in 2020?’

Have you heard the phrase ‘jingle post’? I hadn’t until the 2008 crash.

Good morning. Our regular readers will know that I don’t usually start analysis pieces so formally. But these are strange times and, if you’re like me, craziness is setting in.

Every financial crisis is different. It was a credit crunch and the US sub-prime crash that sparked the 2008 meltdown.

The Covid-19 pandemic has been a powerful reminder of how global the wind industry now is. But some regions are still largely mysterious to westerners.

It was a Monday morning that lived up to that grim reputation.