Rebirth of England.
Chapter 665: Accident
Chapter 665: Accident
Although the world's first wind turbine was built in England, Denmark is a pioneer in offshore wind power.
The Vindeby project, which was completed and put into operation in Denmark in 1991, installed a total of 11 450kW offshore wind turbines and is the world's first offshore wind farm.
At present, the offshore wind power industry in the UK started later than Denmark, Sweden and other countries. At this time, the domestic wind power sector in the UK also has the participation of well-known foreign energy companies including DongEnergy of Denmark, Vattenfal of Sweden, and E.NO of Germany.
Of course, the British government also has relevant policy support for local wind power companies. United Energy Group's British 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 costs.
"In addition to the UK, the Chinese and Indian markets will also be very large. Of course, our most important task at the moment is to carry out our first wind power project in British waters..."
It is not that early for British power distribution companies to get involved in offshore wind power, but now they have acquired the qualifications for offshore wind power through acquisitions.
In terms of technology, Dwind, a subsidiary of British Power Distribution, has also reached an agreement with Siemens to jointly establish a relevant R&D center to specialize in the development of the most critical component of wind power equipment - wind power motors.
After all, these motors need to consider the structural engineering problems of wind turbines and substations in extreme weather conditions such as typhoons and hurricanes...
They also need experience designing projects in areas with high seismic activity, or in extreme water or weather conditions.
Once it has accumulated sufficient experience, the offshore wind power department of the British Power Distribution Company will be able to expand its market overseas.
Just as the head of the British power distribution company said, the Chinese and Indian markets will also be new markets with huge demand.
Currently, Britain's offshore wind power installed capacity ranks first in the world, but in the future, China and India will become the world's top two regions in terms of wind power installed capacity, and Britain will only rank third.
Therefore, the prospects for wind power technology in these two markets are still very broad.
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On March 3, a piece of news dominated the headlines of major British media.
Just the night before, Richard Hall, a British billionaire and chairman of Hall Bank, was killed in a helicopter crash.
The police have now determined that there were four people on the helicopter that Richard Hall was riding in, including the pilot, and no one survived the accident.
Richard Hall, 56, is the contemporary head of the Hall family and chairman of Hall Bank, one of the oldest private banks in Britain. He was also chairman of Northern Rock Bank until the bank was injected with capital by the British government due to a bank run and was later acquired by Standard Chartered Bank.
Of course, some tabloids gave more information.
Inevitably, some of the more sensational speculations were included, such as the Hall family seemed to be cursed - Richard Hall's son and the only heir to the Hall family, Colin Hall, died in a car accident about four 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 and returned 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.
However, some gossip newspapers revealed that Alexander Hall's original name was Alexander Whitman, and his mother Sandra Whitman was originally a maid who worked in the Hall family. Later, after she became pregnant with Alexander, she was sent away by Richard Hall, who only paid Sandra Whitman child support on time. Therefore, it can be said that Alexander Whitman had never seen his father until college, and was always raised by his mother.
Here at Barron's, there is more information about Alexander Whitman, now Alexander Hall.
Indeed, as the newspapers said, Alexander had no impression of his father since he was a child, and it can be said that he grew up in a completely different environment from Colin Hall.
To Alexander, Richard Hall was not a qualified father. Not only was he not present during Alexander's growth, but even the child support given to Sandra Whitman was not high. In fact, it was not uncommon among British aristocrats to withhold child support for "illegitimate children". It was not surprising that it happened to a banker like Richard Hall.
Especially later when Alexander was at university, his mother died of illness. It can be said that their family situation was very difficult at the time. Alexander even dropped out of school because of this. Richard Hall did not do anything about this... Maybe he almost forgot that he had such an illegitimate child.
If Colin Hall had not died in a car accident, 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 able to get over the death of Colin Hall. They seemed to blame Barron for this.
Especially after what happened with Northern Rock Bank - initially as one of the largest shareholders in Northern Rock Bank and as the chairman of Northern Rock Bank, Richard Hall was strongly opposed to the sale of the bank to Standard Chartered Bank...
If Standard Chartered's acquisition conditions had not been in line with the British government's wishes, the Hall family would probably not have agreed to sell under government pressure. But it turned out to be useless. After all, part of the Hall family's stake in Northrock Bank had already fallen into the hands of Colin Hall's widow, Catherine Neville...
In addition, Barron also holds a portion of Northern Rock Bank's shares, so the Hall family's shareholding can no longer control the bank's board of directors.
It is not an exaggeration to say that at that time, initiating a vote of no confidence in Richard Hall, chairman of Northern Rock Bank, and thus removing him from office was just a matter of procedure.
Therefore, in the end, the Hall family had no choice but to swallow their anger and sign the sales agreement.
But because of this incident, Richard Hall's hatred for Barron deepened a lot - this is what Barron learned from some later intelligence.
After all, Richard Hall couldn't be too impulsive. Even if he was going to take revenge on Barron, he would plan carefully before taking action...
But unfortunately, these actions, including the investigation and surveillance of Barron by people he sent, had all fallen into Mikhail Ritter's eyes.
Barron also learned that Richard Hall had contact with the Rothschild family before the car accident of Ashley Weber, CEO of William Weber Capital in Paris, France...
It was obvious that both parties were planning something...
Of course, things did not go as planned. Richard Hall suddenly died in a helicopter crash, along with his assistants and others.
Well, the dead are the greatest, and Barron is not going to pursue this matter any further - as long as Alexander Hall is smart enough.
(End of this chapter)
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