You’d like to think that in the UK, investing in wind power would be a straightforward process.
There are obvious climate-related incentives to development. The raw material is abundant and untethered from global commodity markets. All that’s required, you might conclude, are reliable manufacturing, installation and finance partners, some idea of where to install turbines, and sensible project management assumptions.
The optimist’s kicker to any venture – a metaphorical fair wind – is, ironically, proving less of a feature.