Peter M. Connor

UK renewable energy policy: a review

The paper addresses both historical and current UK policy relating to renewable energy. It discusses the stated aims of policy, and discusses to what extent policy has addressed these aims, and the level of success enjoyed with respect to each goal. The paper also addresses the context in which UK policy has developed, and the effects this has had on both the creation and employment of that policy. Finally, it comments on the likely future direction of policy in the UK.

The Move to Maturity in the Wind Turbine Manufacturing Industry — Is it Happening and, if so, What Are Its Implications?

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the move to maturity in the wind turbine manufacturing industry. The historical development of the wind turbine manufacturing industry is fitted against a generic industrial model. The growth of wind turbine manufacturing in Spain exhibits signs of maturity within the industry. The evidence for this is reviewed with regard to the model, and its implications examined with regard to present and future actors within the industry. The evidence present in the chapter suggested here for the shift among phases for the wind turbine manufacturing industry is far from definitive, the industry will move to maturity at some point. Low and Abrahamsons generic picture would seem to suggest that this might provide both opportunity to new entrepreneurs and, perhaps, some new dangers to those already established, all interested actors might thus do well to take notice.