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Flender/Flender Gear Units/Helical gear Reduction Box H3

cessfulproduct development in this area will there-fore be crucial.Market demands for larger and more efficient wind turbines are increasing. As result,closely targeted and visionary productdevelopment is an important competitiveparameter. At the same time, the importanceof shortening the time to market new modelsand start serial production has increaseddramatically. The market for wind turbines is showing marked change from the sale of individualturbines to increasingly large projects in-volving large numbers of wind turbines. Therisk associated with supply projects is oftenhigher than that associated with the deliveryof individual turbines. Similarly, large supplyprojects make considerably higher demandson all areas of the suppliers organisation. Political ambition is increasing. For example, the recent climate summit resolutionssketched ambitious aims for huge and closelytargeted exploitation of renewable forms ofenergy, including wind power. From globalperspective, these ambitions have beenconverted into concrete actions only spora-dically and to very limited extent. In the long term, other forms of renewable energy will become direct competitors towind power, with price as the decisive com-petitive factor. This development is beingdriven by the fact that increasing emphasis onthe exploitation of renewable energy is stimu-lating the interest of players such as themultinational utilities in creating platformfor themselves within this growth market. Risk factors NEG Micons crisis in autumn 1 was prin-cipally triggered by number of one-offevents. The solution to the concrete problemsis being implemented, and the effort to elimi-nate the risk of comparable situations arisingin the future must bear fruit.NEG Micon is dependent on completing the ongoing retrofit programme - which coversapproximately 1,2 wind turbines in 1countries - according to the approved solutionand in line with the schedule, which is ex-pected to run for around two years from itsinitiation