World perspective on wind power projects limitations

Preben Maegaard, President, World Wind Energy Association has this to say in the current issue of Wind-Tech magazine about developments worldwide:

http://www.windtech-international.com/content/view/59/77/

Clearly combined renewable energy source strategies - wood fuel, wind, wave, hydroelectric - tailoring each based on their strengths - and avoiding deployments where they are unsuited - is the right approach.

Seems like the industry itself is beginning to acknowledge its own limits and talk about alternatives - and especially more community level solutions and dispersed, distributed power generation through use of smaller devices.

See: http://www.windtech-international.com/content/view/190/77/

and discussion of hourly variablity of wind generation in Nordic countries:
http://www.windtech-international.com/content/view/193/62/