The wind sector has been plagued with short-term concerns, particularly focused on the sagging US market, which has been hit by a lack of stronger federal support.
Just 1.24GW of capacity was added in the US during the first half of 2010 – less than half of what was installed during the same six-month period during the two previous years.
“We do expect the US market to be down this year as the low level of orders we saw during the financial crisis work their way through the system,” says GWEC secretary general Steve Sawyer.
“On
