Less than 12% of the proposed new energy research budget allocated to specific generation technologies will go to wind and 25% to coal.

"The sum invested in wind is small compared to the amount given to coal carbon capture and storage" added Kjaer. "But the wind energy industry acknowledges the very significant and important increase in wind energy research funds, especially compared to the 1% of EU energy research funds historically allocated to wind until 2002.

"Despite the small investments in research it is wind that will deliver the vast bulk of Europe's renewable, clean energy, as it has done up to now."