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CHAPTER 10
Strategic Control Over Wind Power
Development Policy
If you're not confused, you're not paying attention.
—Tom Peters, author of hriving on Chaos
10.1 INTRODUCTION
Chapter  3 introduced a three-step framework that could be applied to case
study analysis in order to extract insights for reining wind power develop-
ment policy. he irst step of the framework entailed the analysis of a suicient
number of national case studies to identify prominent commonalities that
inluence wind power development. In this topic Germany, Denmark, China,
the United States, Japan, and Canada were chosen as nations for analysis.
Germany and Denmark—two nations that have laudable and sustained suc-
cesses in wind power development—were selected in order to provide insight
into successful wind power development policies. China and the United
States, which have both experienced boom and bust periods of wind power
development, were picked to provide insight into factors that cause such oscil-
lations in development. Japan and Canada, which are two nations that have
underperformed in regard to wind power development, were selected to pro-
vide insight into barriers to wind power difusion. Although only six nations
were included in this study, additional wind power policy analysis undertaken
by the author in Australia and Taiwan provide general conirmation of the
external validity of the indings that will be summarized in this chapter. 1
In this chapter the social, technological, economic, and political (STEP) fac-
tors that emerged as inluential for either supporting or impeding wind power
development in the six case study nations will be summarized. he intention
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