Quotes from Industry Vision Forum
Eddie O’Connor, CEO Airtricity:
- “When Henry Ford was asked if Ford wanted to build roads, he answered: I build the cars and the government build the roads. The same goes for wind power turbines. The industry should not engage in the costly new systems of transport.”
- “The politicians are behind the people. The people are actually willing to pay for the clean energy.”
- “When people discovered gas in the North Sea they put a grid out there. Why? Because people needed the energy. Now we know there is energy in the wind so we have to construct a grid for it.”
- “The money is there when the idea is right. And wind power is the right idea.”
- “The costs are fixed everybody knows what wind costs next 20 to 50 years, ”
Ditlev Engel, CEO Vestas Wind Systems
- “We can consider if we will be re-active or pro-active. I don’t want to sit in 2020 and look back and think why we didn’t act in 2005. The Chinese have a saying don’t look at the waves look at the current. I think we should look at the current.”
- “….Unless someone will put tax will put tax on the wind in the future we know the cost of this resource for the next many years,” Ditlev Engel supplemented.
- “We need to do a better job explaining people what we are doing and explain the benefits of wind power.”
On the question on when oil and gas industry will trust in wind power?
- “The proof is in the pudding. We have a project with Shell so the proof is there.”
Fritz Vahrenholt, CEO REpower
- “We have counted all the birds and measured the whales singing. Now it is time for the politicians to act.”
- “This should be a wake up call from Copenhagen to all governments that the first wind power plants should be supported by the government like all other new energy resources.”
Andreas Nauen, CEO Siemens Wind Power
- “The main thing is to make offshore wind power a success in the UK and Germany. If we make it happen there we can take it to more exotic places.”
Torkil Bentzen, CEO ENERGI E2
- “I will reveal a business secret today Nysted offshore wind farm is actually profitable.”
