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Community Q&A: Gary Bills, K2 Management

We speak to A Word About Wind community member Gary Bills, country director and MD for UK and Ireland at K2 Management, for his views on the wind market, including offshore wind, the supply chain...

Beatrice partners pick pioneering piling protocol to protect porpoises (and other wildlife too!)

We are set to host our inaugural European Wind Investment Awards on 31st October. Before the event, we're looking at the companies shortlisted in our Innovation Award category, and how they could...

Interview: João Metelo, CEO, Principle Power

João Metelo is CEO of Principle Power, which specialises on floating offshore wind. Principle Power is one of the hospitality sponsors at Financing Wind North America in Denver on 24th and 25th...

Do offshore wind investors need a portfolio approach?

Gunnar Herzig is managing director at the newly-formed World Forum Offshore Wind (WFO), which is set to support the expansion of offshore wind around the world. In this article he argues investors...

Floating Offshore Wind: What are the financing opportunities for commercial investors?

Doreen Abeysundra is the founder of Fresco Advisory Limited, an independent financial advisory focused on clean technology deals in niche sectors and regions. 

With 15 years of project finance...

Chatham Partners' Felix Fischer on the future of German offshore and the step away from subsidies

Felix Fischer is one of the founding partners of infrastructure law firm, Chatham Partners. He specialises in advising developers and investors with regard to renewable energy facilities, with a...

What are the risks of investing in offshore wind in Taiwan?

How can the wind industry enhance digitisation of operations?

 Something very strange happened to the wind industry last year: it reduced costs. 

Where does the UK's offshore wind market go from here?

The UK Government and offshore wind industry are working together on a sector deal that could boost offshore wind in UK waters and support British firms going overseas, but we haven’t heard much...

Why should offshore wind investors trust the Polish government?

Businesses are starting to look seriously at developing offshore wind farms in the waters near Poland – but can investors trust a government that has so effectively damaged the onshore wind...