It assumes that the biggest need will be to supply northern wind power to southern and western consumers.
Other news outlets have reported potential damage reaching as far away as France and northern Spain, as wind patterns change.
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The company said the factory was being closed next week because of reduced demand for wind turbines in northern Europe.
To do that it's been expanding into other countries on the renewables ticket, establishing wind farms in Germany, France and the U.S. So far this year, Iberdrola has acquired Community Energy in the United States, two wind farms in Britain, and it has signed a tentative agreement to build a 1, 000 megawatt wind farm in northern China.
If there were insufficient transmission capacity to accommodate wind farms in Oregon that sold power to consumers in northern California, no developers would have proposed building those wind farms and no investors would have given them millions of dollars to do so.
PAMPLONA, Spain (CNN) -- The wind turbines that line the northern Spanish skyline have provoked much debate about their role in helping control climate change.
Their presence in the colder northern waters is thought to be due to wind and tidal factors.
Cold snaps in Northern Europe are almost always accompanied by no wind.
This intimate story, bringing together the northern light reflected off water, the cold wind, the fear of poverty, the weight of the past, and the lack of a future, has a soulful, epic grandeur.
The value of the investments have been written down to nil and a note in the recently filed accounts states that GSB Northern Ireland will be subject to "an orderly wind-up" in the coming year.
Some provinces of northern Spain now produce as much as 50% of their electricity supply by farming the wind.
Elsewhere in the UK, high winds are expected to cause disruption, with wind speeds of 42mph recorded at Heathrow, 63mph on the east coast of Northern Ireland, 49mph in Crosby, Merseyside, and 46mph in Birmingham.
It began early in the morning with Darren Clarke, the 42-year veteran from Northern Ireland, fending off challenges from talented Americans Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson and battling wind and rain to capture the first major of his career, his beloved British Open.
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Wind power is also being experimented with in a small way for power generation in northern and western China, where it could supply electricity to rural villages in windswept and increasingly arid Inner Mongolia and Gansu Province that are still not on the grid.
This would link offshore wind farms in the Atlantic ocean and the Irish, North and Baltic seas with customers throughout northern Europe.
It is more likely that the culture of the increasingly child-free northern tier and the slow-growth coasts will, to evoke the past, be the ones gone with the wind.
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