Giles Dickson, WindEurope’s CEO: Wind farms will drive down electricity costs

Published on 27/05/2025 - 14:59 GMT+2

Speaking pinch “Ocean” astatine Denmark’s Kriegers Flak offshore upwind farm, Giles Dickson, CEO of WindEurope, highlighted a cardinal use of upwind energy: little energy bills. 

“Wind power is cheaper than nan fossil alternatives. So nan much of these offshore upwind farms we tin build, and nan onshore upwind farms, of course, nan much energy bills will travel down for consumers,” Dickson explains. 

As Europe faces rising power demands and biology pressures, offshore upwind is progressively seen arsenic a reliable and affordable solution.

European governments are prioritising offshore upwind because it delivers affordable, secure, and locally generated power. Dickson points out, “It’s section power generated present successful Europe pinch instrumentality manufactured present successful Europe — these upwind turbines were made successful Denmark.” This homegrown attack not only boosts power information but besides supports section manufacturing and jobs.

Heavy industries, which devour immense amounts of electricity, are eager to pat into this cleanable power source. “They’re knocking connected our doors saying, tin we please build much of these offshore upwind farms truthful that they tin devour nan electricity, because they cognize it'll beryllium cheaper to tally their factories connected energy than it is to tally them connected fossil fuels,” Dickson says. The displacement to upwind powerfulness is helping European manufacturers trim costs and trim their c footprint.

Despite nan progress, Europe’s upwind assemblage still relies connected immoderate cardinal imported components. “Some upwind turbines person imperishable magnets that person uncommon earths wrong them, for example. And there, we are heavy limited connected China,” Dickson notes. The European Union is now moving to diversify its proviso chains, aiming to root these captious materials from different countries. “It’s going to return america 5 aliases 10 years. But you know, this is simply a apical privilege for us,” he adds. “Because we don’t want to switch nan aged dependency that we had connected Russian state pinch a caller dependency connected Chinese instrumentality for renewable energy.”

Journalist • Denis Loctier

Video editor • Jean-Christophe Marcaud