Peter Deeney

The Business, Economic and Financial aspects of Wind Energy

Thursday 4^th September 2025

Online and in-person, in The Ellen Hutchins Building, Sustainability Institute, University College Cork, Lee Road, Cork T23 XE10

You are invited to submit papers for the third Wind Value Conference to be held in University College Cork on Thursday 4^th September 2025. The conference will begin after 10am and finish before 5pm.  The topic is on the broad theme of, “The Business, Economic and Financial aspects of Wind Energy”, and may include:

• Offshore or onshore wind
• End-of-Life issues for wind farms
• Integration of wind and other types of energy
• O&M aspects of wind energy
• Electricity market integration with renewables
• Fault prediction and maintenance
• Communities and renewable energy
• Material supply chains for wind farms
• Financial risk modelling for wind farms
• Communities and the energy transition
• All topics for the Special Issue of the Journal of Economic Surveys, “The Economics of Wind Energy”

A full paper or an extended abstract in a pdf file may be submitted to conference@windvalue.ie by 10^th August for consideration. Decisions will be notified to presenters before 15^th August. Enquiries about admissibility can be directed to peter.deeney@ucc.ie Expression of interest form here.

Papers accepted for the conference may be submitted to a special issue of Journal of Economic Surveys (Wiley, ABS 2), on “The Economics of Wind Energy”, subject to the usual publication requirements for the journal.

I am the guest editor for a special issue of Journal of Economic Surveys:

Call for Papers – The Economics of Wind Energy

Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Recyclability and Life cycle considerations: Criticisms have been raised regarding the environmental impact of wind turbine manufacturing and disposal. Are these justified?
• End-of-life: How are wind turbines dealt with? How are decisions made?
• Levelized lifetime cost of electricity: How much room for improvement is there?
• Effects of renewable energy on electricity markets: What lies ahead?
• Spillovers along the supply chain forward and back: What is needed?
• Local economic impacts from onshore and offshore wind farms: Qui bono?
• Alternative technologies: Three blades and a horizontal axis are not obligatory
• Financing of wind energy: Opportunities for long term investors?
• Derivatives for wind energy: How to manage and package risk.
• Materials needed for wind energy (rare earths): What is needed?
• Cost of planning and not planning: Human decisions and social consequences
• Economics of a balanced grid: More long-term investment opportunities?