Wind energy sector ‘stifled’

RED tape and uncertainty are costing jobs in the wind energy sector as investment dropped by 58% in 2010.

An over-complicated bureaucracy was cited as one of the major obstacles hampering the creation of a potential 10,000 jobs at the Irish Wind Energy Association’s annual conference yesterday.

IWEA chief executive Michael Walsh said: “The absence of a co-ordinated and cohesive system for facilitating the delivery of required installations to meet our 2020 targets is resulting in an unstable market for investment.