Dallas - June 3, 2009 - Lucintel webinar on "Emerging Technology in Wind Energy Market" concluded on high note with strong feedbacks from the audience. There were 112 attendees for this webinar from across the globe. The webinar provided participants a unique opportunity to learn about technological trends and how to profit from these changes, in a cost-effective manner. The participants expressed pleasure over valuable insights provided by the panel of distinguished speakers. Most of the webinar participants in their feedback said that the webinar was quite informative, valuable and timely.

The webinar was held on May 28, 2009 to explore and discuss significant changes taking place in the rapidly growing wind energy market. Panel of five distinguished speakers provided valuable insights on lengths of next generation blades, implications does this have for new materials and location of production facilities, technology developments that can drive improved costs and benefits and on various other issues.

Carl LaFrance of MFG (GE blade manufacturer) threw light on component design, materials, tooling, process, and transportation considerations for blade manufacturing. Dr. Gregor Daun from BASF covered the use of fast curing epoxy system for minimizing investments and to dilute fix costs in blade production while Norman Timmins from Lucintel explained the technological developments that are expected to drive improved costs and benefits. Dr. Olivier Guillermin of Vistagy elaborated on novel manufacturing methods to rapidly develop new and larger cost effective and reliable blade designs. Rani Richardson from Dassault Systems show cased how to utilize potential opportunities to optimize the expertise, IC and design characteristics of rotorcraft blade design for the wind blade market.

Ryan Lee and helpdesk was the moderator for the webinar. Dr Sanjay Mazumdar, CEO of Lucintel thanked all speakers and attendees for participating in this timely and insightful webinar. The complete webinar was recorded and thus if you are interested to listen to the recorded version of the webinar with presentation materials, then please contact Tushita Roy at tushita.roy@lucintel.com. For further detail on the webinar, visit http://www.lucintel.com/webinar-wind.pdf.