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- Category: View from Inside
The year 2015 was a stellar year for the wind industry and for the energy revolution, culminating with the landmark Paris Agreement in December. In an all too rare triumph of multilateralism, 186 governments have finally agreed on where we need to get to in order to protect the climate for future generations. Now the question is whether or not they’re going to take the actions in the short and medium term to get us there.
By Steve Sawyer, GWEC Secretary General
- Category: View from Inside
The rise or fall of community power in wind-based generation was the subject of a major survey followed by a symposium conducted in Bonn, Germany, by the 
World Wind Energy Association. A total of 110 experts from 20 countries discussed the survey results.
By Peter Rae, President of the World Wind Energy Association, Australia
- Category: View from Inside
French investment bank Kepler Chevreux rocked the energy and financial community in late 2014 when it issued a report saying that US$ 100 billion invested in 
wind energy would deliver more usable energy when used to power passenger vehicles and light trucks than the same amount of investment in oil. Since then that message has begun to resonate from London to Zurich and from Bay Street to Wall Street as the price of oil continues its calamitous collapse
By Paul Gipe, USA
- Category: View from Inside
The low frequency noise from big wind turbines is being discussed in all parts of the world. In countries with a high population density, like many of those in 
Western Europe, noise aspects are often the reason that blocks permission to install new wind turbines. In the World Wind Energy Association a discussion concerning wind turbine noise has been going on for some time. However, I believe that social aspects and ownership rather than noise and visual impact may be the main reasons why protests against new wind energy projects emerge at the local level and the local politicians decide against the necessary permissions to install.
By Preben Maegaard, Advisor, Nordisk FolkeCenter, Denmark
- Category: View from Inside
Renewable energy is still too often seen by the general public as merely an add-on to the power generation fleet: green, 
and (sometimes) economic. At the same time there seems to be a general belief that in a power system with lots of variable renewables a full back-up by conventional power plants or expensive storage solutions is necessary even if (as is likely in the future) large shares of the energy consumption are being provided by wind and solar plants. It is not easy to counter this general misconception, especially because the complexities of the technical discussion about power systems are exacerbated by the variability of wind and solar power.
By Frans Van Hulle, XP Wind, Belgium
- Category: View from Inside
Although at the time of writing the US Congress has yet to ratify the ‘Nuclear Deal’ with Iran, the rest of the civilised world seems to be largely on board with it. While it is not strictly illegal for foreign companies to operate in Iran today, threatened sanctions from the USA could have put significant capital investments at risk, so investors were largely turned off. If the Iran Nuclear Deal is fully ratified and sanctions are lifted over time, we can expect to see a reasonably attractive market emerge.
By Philip Totaro, CEO of IntelStor, USA
- Grids, Grid Names and Wind Turbines
- Global Wind Hits Record Growth
- Global Shift Towards Renewable Energy Requires a Broad Variety of Actors and a Synergy of All Renewables
- Inauguration G128-5.0MW Prototype
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