
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


British wind power pioneer Andrew Garrad has worked in the industry for more than four decades, from the early ‘Wild West’ days of trial and error in the late 1970s.
Now semi-retired, Garrad – who received a pioneer award at the Global Wind Energy Council’s ‘One Terawatt’ party earlier this year - is nonetheless still active in helping communities to harness wind power for themselves.
In the seventeenth episode of the Wind Power podcast, Ian Griggs, deputy editor of Windpower Monthly, spoke to Garrad about a professional life spent in the wind industry.
The conversation covered his experience of the ‘Wild West’ days of trial and error in the wind industry in the late 1970s, how we arrived at the turbine models seen as the industry-standard today and how long he thinks it will take to install the next global terawatt of wind power.
Garrad also identifies the global markets he thinks are the most exciting today, what national governments should do now to enable wind power and comments on the so-called ‘arms-race’ in turbine sizes.
This episode was produced by Czarina Deen.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
By Windpower Monthly3
66 ratings
British wind power pioneer Andrew Garrad has worked in the industry for more than four decades, from the early ‘Wild West’ days of trial and error in the late 1970s.
Now semi-retired, Garrad – who received a pioneer award at the Global Wind Energy Council’s ‘One Terawatt’ party earlier this year - is nonetheless still active in helping communities to harness wind power for themselves.
In the seventeenth episode of the Wind Power podcast, Ian Griggs, deputy editor of Windpower Monthly, spoke to Garrad about a professional life spent in the wind industry.
The conversation covered his experience of the ‘Wild West’ days of trial and error in the wind industry in the late 1970s, how we arrived at the turbine models seen as the industry-standard today and how long he thinks it will take to install the next global terawatt of wind power.
Garrad also identifies the global markets he thinks are the most exciting today, what national governments should do now to enable wind power and comments on the so-called ‘arms-race’ in turbine sizes.
This episode was produced by Czarina Deen.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

1,249 Listeners

183 Listeners

400 Listeners

33 Listeners

632 Listeners

127 Listeners

141 Listeners

40 Listeners

76 Listeners

12 Listeners

266 Listeners

180 Listeners

229 Listeners

182 Listeners

14 Listeners