Of course, no mention is made of the fact that the insurance industry most money in the wind sector because they were TOO FUCKING STUPID to do proper due diligence (i.e. examining the risks they were taking) and got burnt.

And where they have lost money is not the few isolated cases of technical incidents (the article lists what I suspect are ALL the major incidents - which means that with 20,000 turbines around, very little is acutally happening) - they lost money because of transmission problems: some lines were shut down for non wind related reasons, but the policies they had granted gave compensation to all the wind farms connected to these lines for lost revenues.

But it's so easy to now scream that the industry is unreliable. wankers.

Our own detailed studies - and those that are public - show that the reliability of the turbines is currently increasing and is above the levels that were announced a few years back (which were themselves higher than those we used to finance projects).

But no - one blade fell off somewhere - oooh, the whole industry is evil. Quick, let's build coal fired plants.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes