Noah Aniser
New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/26/business/energy-environment/coronavirus-renewable-energy-wind.html?action=click&module=News&pgtype=Homepage
How The Virus Slowed the Booming wind Energy Business?
The article is about the enormous impact of the pandemic and how the corona virus slowed down the booming wind energy business. The author starts the article with an example of a company where corona delayed the work on a big project. EDf Renewables is a company that focuses on renewable energies like wind turbines. They had a really big project in Nebraska which was supposed to be done before the end of the year. They were totally on track until the company experienced a big blow.
A manager who was building the giant cylinders on which the turbines sit had died of the coronavirus. That tragic event slowed down the project drastically.
After mentioning that example, the author talks more in depth about other reasons that are responsible for the slow down. The pandemic has disrupted global supply chains and imperiled millions of jobs. The author mentions a research of the The American Wind Energy Association which estimates that the pandemic could threaten a total of $35 billion in investment and 35000 jobs this year.
After talking about all the negative impacts, the author describes the reasons for the boom and emphasizes that through numbers.
Overall the article is pretty good if you are interested in topics related to renewable energy. It is well written and informative. The main information can be read in the first few sentences. The background information and the numbers are pushed towards the middle and the end of the article which is good.
The headline is alright because it raises a question which the reader wants an answer to.
I think it’s a newsworthy story and topic because it is about the impact of the virus on renewable energy. Renewable energy sources are our future and therefore the article definitely matters to us.