The global wind energy market is set to keep growing in 2008, despite pressure on turbine makers from raw materials prices, but it is likely to slow in Germany, the German Engineering Federation (VDMA) said on Tuesday.Thorsten Herdan, head of VDMA power systems, said Germany, one of the world’s biggest markets, would probably experience a further slowdown after shrinking by 25 percent in 2007.
“Worldwide we see further growth,” Herdan said.
“The situation in the supply markets is a little tight and that has to do with the fact that lots of …

One day nearly four years ago, it suddenly seemed like a good idea to give solar electricity a try at home — home, for me, being an apartment house in Washington Heights, alias upstate Manhattan. The price of electricity was climbing. A war was being fought, if not over oil, then certainly over the ground the oil was in. Solar technology had proven that it could generate real power.
And while the building may not have been in the eternal sunshine of Arizona, it does stand on one of the highest …