Wind power

There's going to be much more to come on this.

Charles, let's come back to you now and wind energy.

Yes, wind energy.

We could have looked at probably a variety of the, well, varied alternatives to conventional means of generating electricity.

But wind, because Renewable UK has just produced a report, which does show that... fast increase of 38 in operational floating offshore wind capacity has apparently been achieved over the past 12 months so i just make the point this is worldwide and with regard to the united kingdom's capacity rather more limited the uk has two fully operational floating wind projects kinkardin and high wind But in bold, that's the bold that I've put in, a project pipeline of 28.4 gigawatts.

So that's solar, whether it's on the roof or on the ground.

What about wind energy at the moment?

Yeah.

So I suppose wind energy is, is, is central again to climate's, um, targets and, you know, the energy strategy going forward.

You know, it, it underpins renewable energy targets that we have there as well.

So I mentioned for, um, w- for solar, we have a target of eight gigawatt of solar by 2030.

They don't generate electricity all the time when you actually need it.

So you get electricity when the wind blows, you get electricity when the sun shines for solar.

[gentle music] Hello, and welcome to the Wind Power Podcast with me, Ian Griggs, editor of Wind Power Monthly.

The world is experiencing energy price shocks once again, this time caused by the US and Israel's war in Iran.

We've seen policymakers respond to previous shocks, such as the invasion of Ukraine in 2022, by enabling an acceleration of renewables deployment.

Yeah.

European will is there, but kind of at national level you've got issues with implementation.

Chris, thank you so much for talking to the Wind Power Podcast.

Really appreciate it.

Thank you.

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Harry Brunius reports from Tucumcari, New Mexico, for The Monitor.

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[gentle music] Hello, I'm Ian Griggs, editor of Wind Power Monthly.

Welcome to a special edition of the Wind Power Podcast, recorded live from the conference floor of the Wind Energy Hamburg conference.

I spoke to delegates about what they've learned from the conference so far, and why they decided to join the wind industry in the first place.

[gentle music] So please could you tell us your name, your job title, and the company you work for?

Sure.

My name is Joyce Lee.

I work at the Global Wind Energy Council, or GWEK, and I work as the director of programs and partnerships.

Fantastic to meet you, Joyce.

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Welcome to the Wind Power Podcast with me, Ian Griggs, editor of Wind Power Monthly.

In a special episode of the Wind Power Podcast to mark next week's Wind Energy Hamburg conference, for which Wind Power Monthly is the official podcast partner, I spoke to Birbal Heiderbrook, president of Germany's Wind Energy Association, BWE.

We spoke about the German government's controversial proposals to reform its onshore and offshore wind power sectors, as well as the recent electoral success of the German far-right party, the AfD, in the state of Saxony-Anhalt and what that might mean for future and even existing wind deployment there and elsewhere in the country.

I began by asking her whether the proposed reforms would undo Germany's recent successes in the deployment of onshore wind.

Hello.

Well, do you want renewables or do you want industry? And nobody really mentions that The industry needs renewables to have the electricity, to have the independency, and it's more giving easy answers to really complicated problems.

That sounds familiar for politics, sadly.

Staying with politics, are you concerned by the electoral success of the far-right AFD party in Saxony-Anhalt and the implications for new wind power installations in that state and even existing wind farms? You're talking about this kind of easy answers to complicated problems.