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26/03/2013

Submit an abstract for EWEA OFFSHORE 2013 and join the experts in Frankfurt

The call for abstracts for presentation at EWEA OFFSHORE 2013 is now open. It is the world's largest offshore wind energy conference and exhibition, and EWEA OFFSHORE 2013 will build on the success of the last one in 2011, which...[more]


18/03/2013

Wind Directions magazine: Optimising Operations

Making operations and maintenance as efficient and cost effective as possible is vital if the wind industry is to reach its potential. Moreover, the need to ensure that turbines are robust and easy to maintain becomes...[more]


22/02/2013

Wind worker focus in Wind Directions magazine

From underwater survey work to managing the operation of a wind farm, we meet some of the over 200,000 people who make the European wind industry tick. In this issue of Wind Directions, we meet Teresa Arlabán, Research and...[more]


20/02/2013

Wind farms: a noisy neighbour? Wind Directions feature

Wind turbine noise is an issue fraught with emotion. Noise often comes up as a complaint from local wind turbine opposition groups and it is clearly something that wind turbine manufacturers, designers and developers alike must...[more]


01/02/2013

EWEA 2013 to start on an optimistic note

As the finishing touches are put to the venue and stands for EWEA 2013 in Vienna, participants are in an optimistic mood, for the event and the wind energy sector as a whole. [more]


18/01/2013

Wind industry leaders give live EWEA 2013 preview webinar - listen back

In advance of EWEA 2013 in Vienna next month, a webcast featuring leading figures in the wind industry addressed the state of play in wind energy.[more]


16/01/2013

Hundreds of exhibitors in the spotlight at EWEA 2013

Over 400 exhibiting companies will have their moment in the spotlight at EWEA 2013, when thousands of wind industry professionals, television crews and reporters make their way through the halls of the Messe Wien in Austria. [more]


19/11/2012

Wind Directions Interview: Øystein Løseth, CEO of Vattenfall, on innovation and his company’s plans to invest through the crisis

“It’s tremendous to think what we have achieved both in onshore and offshore wind”. Sarah Azau speaks to Øystein Løseth, CEO of Vattenfall, on innovation and his company’s plans to invest through the crisis.[more]


30/10/2012

Wind Directions Country Focus: A closer look at Italy

In 2012, Wind Directions will take a look at a selection of wind energy markets across Europe and beyond. [more]


17/10/2012

Investing in Europe's future - by Julian Scola, EWEA, in International Sustainable Energy Review

Europe is in crisis. The economy has entered the slow lane. Jobs are vanishing. And Europeans are paying €700 per person per year to countries such as Russia and Algeria. Why? Because the EU depends on them both for gas, and on...


21/09/2012

Wind Directions Interview: Finland's Minister of Economic Affairs & Energy, Jyri Häkämies

"We are strongly committed to increasing our amount of renewables"[more]


21/09/2012

Wind Directions Article: EWEA at 30 - from humble beginnings to mainstream power player

Over the last three decades both EWEA and the wind power industry have come together to successfully influence European energy policy. Chris Rose and Zoë Casey take a walk down memory lane...[more]