The AWEA Blog: Into the Wind

US and UK farmers are turning to owning their own wind turbines as a hedge against rising energy prices

It’s as true in the U.K. as it is in the U.S. It’s also just as true about small wind as it is about the utility-scale segment of the industry: clean, affordable wind power provides a hedge against notoriously volatile fossil-fuel prices. Gaia-Wind, a leading U.K. small wind turbine manufacturer (and AWEA member), recently highlighted a Barclays Bank study revealing that U.K. farmers, increasingly worried about the rising cost of energy, are turning to distributed wind systems in order to protect themselves against those increases. Almost a third (31 percent) expect a move towards renewables to reduce their business costs. (One of the great stories about the U.S.-based small-wind industry, incidentally, is its growing track record of exporting made-in-the-USA products to places like the U.K., considered the top small wind market.) Gaia-Wind obviously understands there’s a ...

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