Wind Power Stalls as Coal Holds Strong in EU

The European Union has been funding wind power as a priority in energy policy. Buildout has been fast and sizable—and yet the bloc remains more dependent on coal than wind. This dependence could deepen instead of vanishing because the pace of new capacity additions is slowing down. Last year, the European Union’s wind power generation capacity supplied a fifth of the electricity that the bloc consumed, according to recently released data from WindEurope, the lobby group. WindEurope warned, however, that the newly added wind turbines…