Marianna Dudley

Marianna Dudley, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Humanities at the University of Bristol and author of Electric Wind, traces Britain’s long love affair with wind. She discusses early wind-electric experiments, meteorology and Orkney tests, 1970s counterculture sustaining wind expertise, privatization’s role in commercial turbines, offshore complexities, and community ownership as an alternative model.

Marianna Dudley, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Humanities at the University of Bristol and author of Electric Wind, explores Britain’s wind power history. She traces early inventors, meteorology’s role, Orkney’s turbine tests, state versus grassroots projects, privatization and commercialization, aesthetic and political opposition, offshore expansion, and community-owned alternatives.

Marianna Dudley, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Humanities and author of Electric Wind, traces Britain's wind history from industrial tinkering to offshore ambitions. She discusses meteorology and testing in places like Orkney. She contrasts state-led experiments with grassroots projects, charts privatization and market shifts, and probes political, cultural and ecological debates around wind power.