What is the future of energy? The answer is blowing in the wind

An innovative new book from Routledge explores the rise of wind power as a global industry and examines the challenges it faces in today's unpredictable energy climate.

Wind Power: The Struggle for Control of a New Global Industry, written by Ben Backwell and published by Routledge, looks at the nations, companies and people fighting for control of one of the world's fastest growing new industries and how we can harness one of the planet's most powerful energy resources. The book also examines the challenges this sector faces as it competes for influence and investment with the fossil fuel industry across the globe.

The wind power business has grown from a niche sector within the energy industry to a global industry attracting substantial investment in recent years. In Europe, wind has become the biggest source of new power, while in China and the US, wind is successfully competing with the gas, coal and nuclear sectors.

The specialist wind turbine companies that pioneered the business have gone global over the last decade, triggering the big industrial multinationals to also enter the fray. European companies are struggling to maintain their technological and market lead in the sector, in a three cornered battle with China and the US.

As fossil fuels begin to mount a comeback, bolstered by the onset of cheap shale gas, this topical book comes at a crucial moment in the renewable energy debate. Wind Power: The Struggle for Control of a New Global Industry analyses the industry climbers, the investment trends and the technological advancements that will define the future of wind energy.

About the Author:

Ben Backwell has spent most of his career covering international energy markets and finance. He worked for international news agencies and as an analyst in Houston, Caracas, New York, Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires, and covered the oil producers' organisation OPEC, before moving back to his native UK in 2006. He then worked as an analyst covering major oil companies before joining renewable energy news service Recharge ahead of its launch in January 2009. He became Editor-in-Chief of Recharge in 2012. He has a master's degree in politics from the University of London.

More information:
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138845855/?utm_source=pr&utm_medium=ag&utm_campaign=SBU3_TRE_1TX_7pr_9ENV_wind

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