TREEconomist

The World Future Energy Summit is taking place this week in Abu Dhabi thanks to some dinosaur oil giant sponsorship. However, one energy company speaking there has caught my attention. Airtricity, an Irish wind energy firm, is presenting a case study about the viability of wind power.

Their economic research on the value of wind shows that it is significantly undervalued particularly when wind energy is included as a sizeable part of a country’s generation portfolio. The value to the country can be twice the price received by the wind generator selling to the market.

There are several other presentations highlighted here during the conference which started yesterday and continues through tomorrow.