Windpower Monthly - April 2008

> Windpower Monthly Wind.Alert April 2008
>
> Here is a taste of the top news stories and
> special opinion pieces just published by Windpower Monthly.
> The text-bites below are quick summaries of a small selection
> of articles in the latest print issue of Windpower Monthly and
> on our web site.
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> SELECTED NEWS STORY SUMMARIES
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> Out of 72 news and feature articles in the print magazine this
> month, we have written summaries of 7 stories
> for the benefit of visitors to our web site.
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> * Fallout from poor service and safety fears: Dramatic turbine
> failures trigger sharper regulatory control
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> * Maximising wind farm returns: Major Canadian wind farm
> owner shuns purchase contracts with inadequate prices and
> takes carbon credit route instead
>
> * Rotor blade blues: Yet another wind turbine maker launches
> blade retrofit program
>
> * Global credit crunch hits wind industry: Asset sale forced
> on global wind power investor
>
> * Pioneering wind market springs back to life: Massive wind
> plant construction once again in Spanish region of Andalucia
>
> * Investment with big league ambitions: Venture capital
> player makes its mark in wind
>
> * Another player ramps up in China: Wind turbine producer
> turns project developer and heads for the big time
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> For summaries of these selected stories, see:
> http://www.windpower-monthly.com/currentabstracts
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> THE WINDICATOR
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> * Quarterly update of wind market indicators
>
> Data and commentary on the wind sector's share price
> performance over the past three months, plus start of the
> year totals for installed wind power capacity around the
> world, country-by-country. Share prices across the world
> are down, but for investors in wind power it is a
> different story. ...More
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> COMMENT COLUMN
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> * Failure fallout
>
> A video clip of a runaway wind turbine in Denmark and its
> dramatic disintegration, filmed from the window of a
> neighbouring house, had the same shock effect on politicians,
> newspaper columnists and the general public as witnessing
> a serious road accident. ... More
>
> * Safe haven
>
> Investors have become jittery. While the wind power
> business is not immune to market uncertainty, potential
> recession and persistently high commodity prices, it is
> weathering the storm. ... More
>
> For an abstract of this comment column, see:
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> FOCUS COLUMN -- ONLINE-ONLY
>
> * Shaping up for a high wind future
>
> In Ireland, steep gas prices make exploitation of the
> country's plentiful wind energy resource an especially
> attractive economic option. But as an island, it is unable
> to call on power supplies from neighbours in times of need.
> That might presuppose than an energy policy that looked
> to wind power to meet a large proportion of electricity
> demand was a potentially unacceptable risk. Nonsense,
> says energy minister Eamon Ryan ... More
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