Vestas CEO Henrik Andersen has reportedly threatened to leave Denmark and take some of the turbine giant’s activities with him if a wealth tax is introduced for the country’s richest.

The US and Israel’s attacks on Iran have provoked a furious response, with the Islamic Republic launching its own strikes across the Middle East. The ongoing crisis has disrupted global shipping lanes and caused a spike in energy prices. Windpower Monthly investigates the potential impact on the wind power industry

A blade broke off a wind turbine at an onshore wind farm in a Welsh forest last week, according to project owner RWE. 

Windpower Monthly rounds up the latest wind power technology patents filed and published in the past week.

German wind farm developers have warned that leaked proposals to scrap grid operators’ obligations to prioritise renewables would make project financing “impossible”.

A US bomber plane from the second world war was found at the bottom of the German North Sea during an ordnance survey for an offshore wind converter station. 

Two subcontractors have died after a workplace accident at an under-construction wind farm in Hesse in central Germany.

Tinne Van der Straeten, the new chief executive of WindEurope, talks to the Wind Power podcast about her priorities as she takes up her post at the trade body.