01 Nov '12, 8pm

And wind remains free. Wind farm operation and maintenance costs plummet says new @BloombergNEF index:

Average prices for operation and maintenance contracts in the wind sector have dropped 38% in the last four years, boosting the sector’s competitiveness significantly London and New York, 1 November 2012 – The wind energy sector is making significant improvements not just in the capital cost and performance of its turbines, but also in the ongoing cost of operating and maintaining them once installed. This is the message from the inaugural issue of the Bloomberg New Energy Finance Wind Operations and Maintenance Price Index, just published. The index, based on contractual data submitted on a confidential basis by leading players in the wind energy sector worldwide, shows that the average price for full-service O&M offerings for onshore wind farms (including scheduled and unscheduled maintenance works and component replacement) fell to EUR 19,200 per MW annually in 2012, fr...

Full article: http://www.bnef.com/PressReleases/view/252

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