Wind Power

Wind is the mature end of the renewables build, which makes its problems the more interesting ones: auction design that leaves capacity unbuilt, turbine supply chains with multi-year lead times, and the widening gap between offshore ambition and offshore financing.

Policy has lately added a stranger question — governments paying developers to cancel leases rather than build them. We cover onshore and offshore wind, generation records, and the capacity-accreditation arguments that decide how much a wind farm counts for when a grid plans ahead.