Every quarter the Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables service counts up the order intake for wind turbines, and says that for Q1 it rose 7% or 875 MW for 2019 over Q1 2018 to around 13.7 GW in total, with Denmark’s Vestas firmly in the lead. The consulting group shares the detail through its “Global Wind Turbine Order Analysis: Q2 2019”, and the pattern for the quarter is that in China, North America and Latin America orders were up, but Europe’s order book crashed badly. Developers in China, Latin America and North America collectively ordered 3.1 GW more than last year and that Europe, AsiaPacific, Middle East and Africa ordered 2GW less than last year. Wood Mackenzie says the reasons…