Chapter 665 Accident

Speaking of which, although the world's first wind power generation equipment appeared in England, Denmark is a pioneer in offshore wind power.

The Vindeby project, completed and put into operation in Denmark in 1991, installed a total of 11 450kW offshore wind turbines, making it the world's first offshore wind farm.

At present, the UK's offshore wind power industry started later than Denmark and Sweden. At this time, the UK's domestic wind power field also includes the participation of well-known foreign energy companies such as Denmark's DongEnergy, Sweden's Vattenfal, and Germany's E.NO. .

Of course, the British government also has relevant policy support for local wind power companies. United Energy Group's British Power Distribution Company will also cooperate with companies including Germany's Siemens to jointly develop a new generation of wind power motor equipment to increase the efficiency of wind power and reduce its cost.

"In addition to the British mainland, the Chinese and Indian markets will also be very huge. Of course, our most important task at the moment is to first carry out our first wind power project in British waters..."

It is not too early for British Power Distribution Company to participate in offshore wind power, but they have already obtained the qualifications for offshore wind power through acquisitions.

And in terms of technology, Dwind, a subsidiary of British Power Distribution Company, has also reached an agreement with Siemens to jointly set up a relevant R\u0026D center to specialize in the development of wind power motors, the most critical component of wind power equipment.

After all, these motors need to consider the structural engineering issues of wind turbines and substations under possible extreme weather such as typhoons and hurricanes...

And they also need experience engineering in areas with high seismicity, extreme water or weather conditions.

After sufficient accumulation is achieved, the offshore wind power department of British Power Distribution Company can expand its market overseas.

As the person in charge of the British Power Distribution Company said, the Chinese and Indian markets will also be new markets with huge demand.

At present, the UK's offshore wind power installed capacity ranks first in the world, but in the future, China and India will become the top two regions in the world in terms of wind power installed capacity, while the UK can only rank third.

Therefore, the prospects for wind power technology in these two markets are still very broad.

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On March 25, a piece of news dominated the headlines of major British media.

Just the night before, Richard Hall, the British billionaire and chairman of Hall Bank, suffered a plane crash while riding in a helicopter.

The police have determined that the helicopter Richard Hall was riding in, including the pilot, had a total of four occupants at the time, and no one survived the accident.

Richard Hall, 56 years old, is the contemporary head of the Hall family. He is also the chairman of Hall Bank, one of the oldest private banks in England. He also once served as a director of Northrock Bank. It lasted until the bank was capital injected by the British government due to a run, and was later acquired by Standard Chartered Bank.

Of course, some tabloids gave more information.

Inevitably, these include some more sensational speculations, such as the fact that the Hall family seems to be cursed - Colin Hall, the son of Richard Hall and the only heir of the Hall family, died in about 4 He died in a car accident more than years ago, and now, Richard Hall died in a helicopter crash...

However, after Colin Hall's death, Richard Hall found one of his "illegitimate sons" Alexander Hall to return to the family and began to get involved in family affairs.

Therefore, after Richard Hall died in a helicopter crash this time, Alexander Hall will become the heir to the Hall family.

But some gossip newspapers revealed that Alexander Hall was originally named Alexander Whitman, and his mother, Sandra Whitman, was originally a maid who worked for the Hall family.

Later, after she became pregnant with Alexander, she was sent away by Richard Hall. He only paid alimony to Sandra Whitman on time. Therefore, it can be said that Alexander Whitman did not even meet him until college. Before his father, he was always raised by his mother.

Here at Barron, there is more information about Alexander Whitman, now Alexander Hall.

Indeed, as the newspaper said, Alexander had no impression of his father since he was a child. It can be said that he grew up in a completely different environment from Colin Hall.

For Alexander, Richard Hall was not a qualified father. Not only did he not appear in Alexander's growth, but even the support given to Sandra Whitman was not enough. Not high - this kind of withholding of support payments for "illegitimate children" is actually not uncommon among British aristocrats. As for it happening to a banker like Richard Hall, it is even more insignificant. No surprise.

Especially when Alexander was at university, his mother passed away due to illness. It can be said that their family's situation was very difficult at that time, and Alexander dropped out of school because of this. However, Richard Hall did not do anything about this...maybe he didn't I almost forgot that I had such an illegitimate child.

If Colin Hall hadn't "died in a car accident", I'm afraid Alexander would never have appeared in front of Richard Hall again.

In addition, Barron also knew that the Hall family, especially Richard Hall, was not relieved about the death of Colin Hall. They seemed to blame Barron for this matter.

Especially after the incident at Northern Rock Bank - as one of the major shareholders of Northern Rock Bank and the chairman of Northern Rock Bank, Richard Hall was strongly opposed to selling the bank to Standard Chartered Bank...

If Standard Chartered Bank's acquisition conditions were not the most in line with the wishes of the British government, under the pressure of the government, I am afraid that the Hall family would not be able to sell it in the end - but it turned out that this was useless. After all, part of the Hall family's holdings in Northern Rock Bank had already fallen into the hands of Colin Hall's widow, Catherine Neville...

In addition, Barron also held a part of Northern Rock Bank's shares, so the Hall family's holdings could no longer control the board of directors of this bank.

It is not an exaggeration to say that at that time, initiating a vote of no confidence in Richard Hall, the chairman of Northern Rock Bank, and thus driving him out of office, was just a matter of procedure.

Therefore, in the end, the Hall family could only swallow their anger and sign the sale agreement.

But because of this incident, Richard Hall's hatred for Barron deepened a lot - this is also what Barron learned from some intelligence later.

After all, Richard Hall could not be too impulsive. Even if he was going to retaliate against Barron, he would plan carefully before taking action...

But unfortunately, these actions, including the investigation and surveillance of Barron by his people, have completely fallen into Mikhail Ritter's eyes.

Barron also learned that before the car accident of Ashley Weber, CEO of William-Weber Capital in Paris, France, Richard Hall had contact with people from the Rothschild family...

It is obvious that both parties are planning something...

Of course, now "God does not fulfill people's wishes". Richard Hall suddenly died in a helicopter crash, and his assistants and others died in this accident.

Then the dead are the greatest, and Barron is not going to continue to pursue this matter - as long as Alexander Hall is smart enough.