UK - Wind power ready to meet looming energy gap

A new report shows that many forecasts have considerably overestimated global reserves of oil and gas, finding that a "serious shortfall between demand and supply could become evident soon after 2010" but that wind power as a safe, carbon-neutral, economic and indigenous energy resource is the best choice to fill the electrcity generation gap.

According to Dr Ian Mays, Managing Director of the RES Group, “Fossil fuels cannot sustain our expected growth in energy demand and low energy prices are gone forever. Wind power is very much ready to keep the lights on and fill the gap. Wind power technologies are working successfully all over the world and with foresight and appropriate policy frameworks there is enough resource to roll out wind power on a huge-scale.

Wind is a sustainable, free resource and the wind energy technology is cost effective, reliable, clean and green – so what are we waiting for?”

The full report is available to download from http://www.gwec.net/uploads/media/RESGWEC-_Plugging_the_Gap_report_01.09.06.pdf