European wind industry slashes growth forecasts

Jessica Shankleman
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EWEA predicts 192.4GW of installed capacity by 2020, blaming economic slowdown, policy uncertainty, and falling energy demand

The European wind industry has lowered its forecasts for the amount of new wind energy capacity that the EU is expected to install through to 2020, blaming the financial crisis and policy uncertainty for...

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