Denmark’s Vestas has been making wind turbines exclusively since 1989 — well before the notion of an energy transition was commonplace. But that foresight hasn’t made for smooth sailing: When Henrik Andersen joined Vestas in 2013 as a board member, the company was deep in debt and shareholders were worried. A decade later, Andersen is CEO and has pulled Vestas out of trouble yet again, just as wind power is starting to play a critical role in the global energy transition. Andersen describes some of the government policies that have hindered or helped the growth of this sector, and describes the innovations making wind harvesting even more efficient.
Explore further:
Zero is a production of Bloomberg Green. Our producers are Mythili Rao, Sommer Saadi and Magnus Henriksson. Special thanks this week to Kira Bindrim and Will Mathis. Thoughts or suggestions? Email us at zeropod@bloomberg.net. For more coverage of climate change and solutions, visit https://www.bloomberg.com/green.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Meet the man with $400 billion to supercharge climate tech
We need trillions to fix the climate. Finally there’s a serious plan.
How wildfire smoke and air pollution affect your health
How to stop your retirement money funding climate change
The biggest opportunity in the history of the world
Does it matter if the world breaches 1.5C for a single year?
Redesigning cities for a future of extreme heat
Biden’s climate bill is changing climate tech, and our daily lives
How the Bezos Earth Fund spends its billions
High hopes for biodiversity, but who will pay?
Best of: Inside the stealth startup making zero-emission steel
The climate case for flying cars
A kingdom built on oil now controls the world’s climate progress
How to build a battery that replaces a coal plant
How the ‘rich man’s energy club’ became a climate champion
Why the new IPCC report is so important
What the Silicon Valley Bank collapse means for climate tech
What it takes to become a climate tech CEO, with Katie Rae
Building a future where humanity will thrive, with Achim Steiner
How Europe ditched Russian fossil fuels with spectacular speed
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
The emPOWERed Half Hour
NABOR® TALKS
U.S Property Podcast
Aligned Money Show
The Ramsey Show
Planet Money