Windpower Austria - Andreas Hafenscher

Global Wind Day on 15 June is getting closer and closer, and last weekend EWEA’s and GWEC’s international photo competition ‘Wind in Mind’ came to a close.

The interest and number of submissions has been overwhelming. All corners of the world are represented in the 2,100 photographs that were sent in from over 65 countries.

Taamir Fareed

Many of those at EWEA 2012 in April will have seen – or taken part in – the Free movement of electricity quiz at the EWEA stand. The winner of the Amazon Kindle has now been announced: it is Taamir Fareed, who works for a private equity fund which invests in wind energy, and is also a board member of the Finnish Wind Energy Association.

Other quiz winners got a mini-turbine. Overall, nearly 200 people took the quiz during the four-day event.

“I was born and studied in Bremerhaven, but when I left in 1996, there were no career opportunities there”, says Ronny Meyer.

BY the mid-1990s, the shipping and fishing industries that had traditionally dominated north-west Germany, where Bremerhaven is situated were dying, and there was felt to be no future.

“The unemployment rate was very high and anyone who had studied was leaving the city”, says Meyer.