Green Light for Biggest Wind Farm in US North-East as Maine clears Longroad’s 1GW King Pine
Green light for biggest wind farm in US north-east as Maine clears Longroad's 1GW King Pine State regulatory clears way for giant project by Boston-based developer that will double Maine's onshore generation and include export of electricity to neighbouring...
Can a Carbon Capture Site and Wind Farm coexist at Sea? BP and Orsted are thrashing it out
Two energy giants - not quite alike in their green credentials - are competing over the same bit of sea floor. Oil major BP plans to build a vast carbon capture project beneath the North Sea that would help Britain hit its emissions targets. Danish firm Ørsted wants...
Ireland’s largest Wind Farm’ to get Vestas Turbine Giants as Emerald Isle goes Green
Vestas will deliver some of its most powerful turbines to a 126MW project in Ireland that the OEM said will be the nation’s largest single wind farm so far once built in 2024. The Danish group will supply 21 V150-6.0 MW EnVentus machines with 110-metre hub heights to...
How can the Wind Industry close its ‘Workforce Gap’?
More than two thirds (68%) of wind industry employers have had “some or great difficulty” locating qualified applicants, yet 83% of potential candidates have had trouble finding job opportunities in the sector, according to research from the National Renewable Energy...
Former PMs Back Move to lift UK Onshore Wind ‘Ban’
Conservative MP Simon Clarke has tabled an amendment to the Levelling Up and Regeneration bill to relax prohibitive rules on UK onshore wind development. The amendment has now been backed by former premiers, Liz Truss – prime minister for just 50 days – and Boris...
Dutch 21GW Ambition needs Policy Shift or Offshore Profits will plummet, Report warns
In a new study, the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) mapped out the economic risks relating to this based on two scenarios. One assumes low electrification of industry, while another assumes high electrification. "In the...
“Overriding Public Interest” is Essential to the Expansion of Renewables
The EU wants a massive expansion in renewable energy. It wants wind energy to grow from 190 GW today to 510 GW by 2030. But Europe is not building enough wind farms to reach this target. We should be building 39 GW a year. We’re only building 18 GW. The main problem...
Coalition calls for Better Marine Planning to speed up Offshore Wind and protect Nature
OCEaN is a coalition of non-governmental organisations, wind industry players and transmission system operators from across Europe. It has outlined a list of principles and measures for member states (MSs) and the EC to adopt that it believes will "speed up offshore...
Chinese Manufacturer Goldwind wins ‘Milestone’ 500MW Wind Turbine order in Uzbekistan
Goldwind has confirmed a turbine order for Masdar’s 500MW Zarafshan wind farm in central Uzbekistan, and described the deal as a "milestone" for the Chinese wind industry's foreign expansion. It is due to supply 111 of its GW155-4.5MW turbines for the project – which...
UK Wind Industry backs call to Decouple Renewable Electricity from Gas
The UK wind industry has backed proposals to separate the cost of electricity produced by old renewables and nuclear plants from gas generation, in a bid to cut energy bills this winter. Industry bodies RenewableUK and Energy UK believe that creating new fixed-price,...