A sharp rise in the energy price cap for households in the UK shows the urgent need for a swifter transition to wind power and other renewables, industry experts said today. UK energy regulator Ofgem announced today that the average annual household energy bill would...

France gets around 20% of its electricity from renewable sources – 8% from wind energy, but it needs more to meet its climate goals while reinforcing energy security.  The war in Ukraine and disruptions in its conventional electricity generation fleet are putting...

Following completion of the deal, Seriti will own 51% of Windlab Africa, which has a 3.5GW portfolio of wind and solar projects at different stages of development in South Africa and east Africa. Windlab Africa managing director Peter Venn (15%), RMB (14.5%), Standard...

Last week the Greek Parliament approved Greece’s first Offshore Wind Law, a key milestone to kick-off offshore wind development. In the coming months the Greek Government will adopt several decrees specifying future offshore wind zones and auction criteria. By 2030...

Projections of the future cost of wind and solar generation can help inform investments and power sector planning. But accurately projecting the future cost of renewable generation is challenging. One commonly used method—learning curves—holds that for each doubling...

Danish renewables developer Eurowind Energy is planning five onshore ‘energy centres’ comprising wind turbines, solar PV, batteries and power-to-x facilities spread across Denmark. In the future it also plans to include biogas and hydrogen refining within the parks....

Its 2000MW Caledonia offshore wind farm is due to be located in the Moray Firth off north-east Scotland, and serves as an extension to OW’s existing projects there. Ocean Winds – a joint venture of French utility Engie and Portuguese developer EDP Renewables – was one...

Policy initiative is geared to unlock an estimated $109bn for US offshore supply chain, including vessels Top US federal officials and industry executives yesterday launched a state-federal partnership to boost America’s offshore wind deployment. The launch, at the...

Oil and gas majors look to power North Sea installations Equinor, Petoro, TotalEnergies, Shell and ConocoPhillips are considering the potential for a 1GW floating offshore wind farm. Trollvind would be sited in the North Sea, around 65km west of Bergen in the Troll...

US study launched to address cable landfall and onshore constraint issues expected as offshore wind farms are built off the east coast Consultancy OWC is set to research cable landfall and onshore constraint issues related to the expected growth in new offshore wind...