Survey polls delegates at Europe’s largest energy event
London, UK, 28 June, 2012 – A survey of delegates at POWER-GEN Europe and its co-located conferences Renewable Energy World Europe and Nuclear Power Europe found that nearly half (48%) believe that the best opportunities for Europe’s power engineering sector will come from outside of Western Europe in the next five years. 34% felt the best opportunities would arise in power plant modernisation and refurbishment in Western Europe and only 18% have faith in the best opportunities coming from new power plant construction in Western Europe.

The survey was designed to quantify delegates’ views on some of the key issues affecting the industry in 2012.  One of the most divisive topics covered at this year’s conference was Germany’s ‘Energiewende’ which caused heated debate at the Joint Plenary Session. Delegates were similarly split. Just over half (52%) of those polled believe that Germany has made the wrong decision to phase out...