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Tough Times for China’s Wind Energy

Bringing large-scale wind farms to China seems like a fantastic concept, since the nation struggles with electricity shortages and pollution problems. Northwest China has an abundance of wind, too. The business of wind would appear to be a win-win situation for alternative energy investors, the Chinese government and domestic electricity consumers. Yet, some financial turbulence has blown into China's wind energy sector in recent months.

The country's turbine makers are facing their toughest times yet as a slowdown in new projects catches them by surprise.

Zhou added that Beijing's tightening of monetary policy, combined with a wave of accidents at wind farms in Gansu Province; Northwest China is halting the flow of new project approvals.

http://english.cri.cn/6909/2011/08/15/189s653524.htm

The Party’s Over for Big Wind

A combination of cheap natural gas, growing resistance to wind turbine installations, and the inability of cash-strapped governments to continue hefty subsidies, is taking the wind out of wind.

Here's the reality: the backlash against industrial wind is real, it's global, and it's growing. The U.S. has about 170 anti-wind groups.

The wind lobby is desperate to downplay the problem of infrasound from wind turbines.

http://www.energytribune.com/articles.cfm/8255/The-Partys-Over-for-Big-Wind