Europe’s wind industry has entered a new era with the election on Wednesday of a senior power utility executive as chairman of its biggest lobby group. The choice of Francesco Venturini from Italy’s Enel power company is a first for the WindEurope trade body, which has often clashed with utilities over the issue of boosting renewable energy support. Mr Venturini, the head of Enel’s renewables arm, told the Financial Times he wanted his industry to recognise that generating electricity from the wind, sun and other renewable sources had become a permanent fixture in the global energy landscape.
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