Financial Times , 08 December 2009
Jonathan Guthrie

Ex-hippy’s answer was blowing in the wind

It is blowing a gale on top of Lynch Knoll in Gloucestershire. That makes green entrepreneur Dale Vince very happy. He likes extreme weather: “Cold, snowing, raining, baking hot – all that stuff.”

Most of all he likes wind. The huge wind turbine on top of the hill is twirling like a kid’s pinwheel. It is one of 52 that belong to Ecotricity, Mr Vince’s company, which sells renewable electricity direct to consumers. The company made a profit of about £2m ($3.3m, €2.2m) in the year to May 2008 on sales of £28m and has been valued at £100m.

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