Wind industry's future has never shone brighter – nor has present ever seemed more opaque

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A light appears faintly in the distance – in this case, the comet Neowise. | Photo: Charlie Riedel/AP/Ritzau Scanpix
A light appears faintly in the distance – in this case, the comet Neowise. | Photo: Charlie Riedel/AP/Ritzau Scanpix
BY MAZ PLECHINGER, TRANSLATED BY DANIEL FRANK CHRISTENSEN, SIMON ØST VEJBÆK & KRITOFFER GRØNBÆK

The top of the West’s wind industry has now for several years lived its life in a state of spectacular malaise – one in which the future appears incessantly luminous while the present remains constantly plagued by a slew of problems suddenly appearing out the blue, thereby postponing all things positive.

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