Ambitious targets can be achieved when ambitious legislation is being introduced. Others say that if anybody can make the energy revolution happen, it will be the industry giants. Renewables offer a potential growth territory. Wind power is an especially attractive target of investment. The technology is tried and proven and it is already commercially competitive - the best performing wind farms are as cheap as gas power and all of them are competitive with coal and hydro.
Wind energy is already a booming international business.
On current growth rates, the value of the market is expected to increase eight times by 2002.