Analiza porównawcza sytuacji finansowej farm wiatrowych w wybranych krajach Unii Europejskiej w latach 2009-2017

The aim of the publication was a comparative analysis of selected indicators of the financial situation of enterprises whose main activity is the generation of wind energy and its sale to the power grid. The publication compared selected average values of financial ratios for the following European Union countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Spain, the Netherlands, Ireland, Lithuania, Latvia, Germany, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Hungary, Great Britain, Italy. The conclusion from the research is the authors observed high profitability of wind farms in Austria, Belgium, Portugal and the United Kingdom, which coincides with the high electricity prices in these countries. Countries with lower energy prices usually recorded worse financial results of wind farms. There are, however, exceptions to this rule (wind farms in Germany, despite high electricity prices, did not achieve very good financial results).