Why Half of Oil and Gas Workers are looking to Offshore Wind
Four out of five UK oil and gas workers want to quit the fossil fuel industry, with a majority favouring a move to offshore wind and renewables, according to a new survey. Campaigners Platform, Friends of the Earth Scotland and Greenpeace UK found 81% of workers they...
Vestas enters Colombia with 20MW Οrder
Vestas will supply ten V100-2.0MW turbines for a 20MW wind farm being developed by infrastructure firm Elecnor and energy company Isagen – its first turbine order in Colombia. It will also provide operation and maintenance services at the 20MW Guajira I wind farm for...
BP Maps Global Shift from Fossil fuels to Renewables
Oil demand may have already peaked as it is replaced by fast-growing renewable energy sources such as wind and solar PV, according to oil and gas major BP. Demand for oil may never fully recover after the coronavirus pandemic and may begin falling in absolute terms...
SGRE Secures 325MW Onshore Order from ‘undisclosed’ US Customer
The turbine manufacturer will supply 65 SG 5.0-145 wind turbines along with a multi-year service agreement, with delivery by summer of 2021 and commissioning by the end of next year. Shannon Sturgil, CEO of Onshore North America at SGRE, said: “An order of this size...
UK’s Ventient adds Portugal’s Iberwind to growing Onshore Portfolio
The sale will add 31 wind farms, with 320 turbines, to the 103 onshore projects in the UK, France, Belgium, Spain, Germany, Portugal and Spain that Ventient currently operates. Ventient's agreement with Iberwind's owners, CK Infrastucture Holding and Power Assets...
Latest Offshore Technology to be tested on Former Coal Site
The new ORE Catapult demonstrator project will be built over the former Blyth power station Northumberland, northern England, as part of a £30 million energy park, dubbed Energy Central. Run by ORE Catapult, the project will host one large prototype turbine at a time...
The US Wind Industry installed 2.5GW of New Capacity in the Second Quarter of 2020, a Record for Q2 Additions, Despite Delays caused by the Pandemic
The 2.5GW installed was more than three times the 736MW added in Q2 2019, stated the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) in its latest Wind Powers America quarterly report. The increase brought total US wind capacity to nearly 110GW. The US is currently...
The 731.5MW Borssele III & IV Wind Farm has supplied its First Power, and is Due to be Fully Online by October 2020
First power has been achieved at the 731.5MW Borssele III & IV project off the coast of the Netherlands. The project is due to be fully commissioned in October, by which time 77 of MHI Vestas’ V164-9.5 turbines will provide enough output to meet 2.3% of Dutch...
Banks split Risk at Europe’s Largest Community Wind Farm
The project is due to be the largest Dutch onshore wind farm and largest community-owned wind farm in Europe. Nederlandse Waterschapsbank (NWB Bank) and the Danish export credit insurer EKF have joined Dutch banking and financial services firm Rabobank as co-financier...
New Jersey considering solicitation of 2.4 GW of offshore wind proposals
The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU) issued the draft “Solicitation Guidance Document” for its second offshore wind solicitation and scheduled a virtual public meeting to accept public input on the document. The document includes information on the...