German utility-developer plans €50 billion spending spree on renewables, gas and storage in the next decade RWE aims to double its net wind, solar, batteries, gas and hydrogen capacity to 50GW by 2030, with a newly unveiled €50 billion spending plan. This includes a...

here’s less than one month to go to the annual WindEurope event in Copenhagen on 23-25 November (“Electric City”). Over 380 companies will be exhibiting. And we’re expecting at least 8,000 people. The event will cover all the key aspects on onshore wind and offshore...

Fund manager Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) plans to spend €100 billion in green energy before 2030. About 30% of this would be in offshore wind, with the remainder going towards onshore wind, solar, power-to-x and other energy transition technologies...

Vattenfall launches clean-up operation after rotor and blades fall into sea during maintenance work A turbine rotor and three blades have fallen into the sea at Vattenfall’s 150MW Ormonde offshore wind farm, off the north-west coast of England. The components –...

More than 90 companies sign up to GWEC’s manifesto ahead of COP26 in Glasgow calling for faster wind energy deployment Governments must “get serious” about the energy transition and work with the private sector to rapidly scale up wind and renewable energy...

The Danish Energy Agency is searching for alternative areas for offshore wind development, having suspended the tender for a planned project in the Kattegat off the country’s east coast. These alternative sites include reduced versions of the site in which the...

New Delhi: With the countdown to the monsoon withdrawal officially started, apprehension of bad air quality days has started. And, amongst the many sources that cause pollution is 'parali' (stubble burning) by farmers in Punjab and Haryana. Now, the farmers can look...

Chinese wind turbine maker MingYang Smart Energy is reportedly planning to set up a major manufacturing facility in Europe. President Ye Fan told financial news wire Bloomberg that the company aims to start building the plant in southern Germany within three years. It...

Sulzer Schmid and ENERTRAG Betrieb have teamed up to provide a new wind turbine blade inspection solution that integrates ENERTRAG Betrieb’s lightning protection systems (LPS) testing solution with Sulzer Schmid’s unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology and digital...

Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy said Tuesday it had launched a recyclable wind turbine blade, a move which represents the latest example of how the industry is attempting to find ways to re-use materials. In a statement, the Spanish-German engineering group claimed...