The Business of Wind Energy in Europe
The European Union (EU) has the reputation of a bureaucracy awash in red tape. Yet when it comes to wind power, and above all onshore wind, its policies over the last decade have proven enormously...
View ArticleVoices of Wind: GWEA’s Henning Dettmer
In 1996, when the German Wind Energy Association (GWEA) came to life, the full force of Germany’s onshore wind power amounted to a handful of entrepreneurs experimenting with a budding but imperfect...
View ArticleHas Germany’s Wind Power Sector Escaped the Grim Fate of Solar PV?
While Germany’s once soaring photovoltaic sector is going through very hard times – a consequence primarily of cheap Chinese imports – the country’s wind energy sector, also a market leader, has so far...
View ArticleCan More ‘Europe’ Pave Germany’s Path to Renewables?
The Berlin-based Heinrich Böll Foundation, a think tank close to Germany’s Greens, argues that Germany could – with the right policies – go 100% renewable by 2050, even as it phases out nuclear power...
View ArticleCan Europe Step Up at Doha?
It might at first glance look like a good omen that the EU has shown up at the current United Nations climate change conference in Doha, Qatar, with its carbon emission reduction goals for 2020 already...
View ArticleRenewable Power Dispute Heats Up in Central Europe
German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks during debates at the Bundestag over the 2013 federal budget on November 21, 2012 in Berlin, Germany. As the temperatures begin to dip below freezing in Europe,...
View Article
