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Applications opened on 18 April 2024 for a project that could expand the US market for UK companies developing technology which can help support the growing floating offshore wind market in the USA.
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The US Department of Energy (DOE) released a new roadmap outlining solutions to speed up the interconnection of clean energy onto the nation’s transmission grid and clear the existing backlog of solar, wind, and battery projects seeking to be built.
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Vaisala Xweather has analysed every lightning strike on or around wind farms in the continental United States in 2023. The Xweather report reveals 77,494 lightning strokes at or near more than 1,500 wind farms.
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RenewableUK, the Offshore Wind Industry Council, The Crown Estate, and Crown Estate Scotland have released an Industrial Growth Plan (IGP) outlining strategies to triple offshore wind manufacturing capacity over the next decade.
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With increasing development to meet U.S. wind energy deployment goals, ensuring an adequately trained workforce is crucial. A new report from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory highlights a looming shortage of wind energy workers in the coming decades but also identifies significant opportunities to address this gap.
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The global wind industry installed a record 117GW of new capacity in 2023. Total installations of 117GW in 2023 represent a 50% year-on-year increase from 2022.
- Japan and the USA join forces to reduce offshore floating wind project costs
- 13 organisations urge Atlantic states to move forward with planning and solicitations for offshore transmission systems
- Romania adopts first offshore wind energy law
- Success of US offshore wind industry relies on functional, reliable, and cost-effective transmission system
- Baltic Sea countries pledge closer collaboration to secure critical offshore energy infrastructure
- US grid connection backlog grows by 30% in 2023
- EU starts investigation into Chinese wind turbines under new Foreign Subsidies Regulation
- TenneT explores collaborative model for offshore maintenance
- German onshore wind auctions achieve record volumes
- California unveils transmission plan for offshore wind
- AREG and Aberdeen City Council partner to propel offshore wind renewables
- Estonia receives ten applications for offshore wind sites near Saaremaa
- Several bids received for offshore wind tender in the Netherlands
- Global wind power production is “very predictable”, finds Eoltech study
- Massachusetts receives offshore wind bids
- Goldwind maintains its position as the leading turbine supplier
- New Jersey announces funding for offshore wind research and monitoring initiative
- US DOE's Wind Energy Technologies Office to invest $5.1 million in offshore wind turbine blade research
- DOE reports chart path for East Coast offshore wind electricity system
- Spanish Government and wind industry sign Spanish Wind Charter
- EcoVadis, WindEurope and other wind industry organisations launch ‘Wind Energy Initiative’
- Rebound in European wind energy financing in 2023
- MEASNET releases report on power performance testing
- USA proposes second offshore wind sale in Gulf of Mexico
- Two UK ports progress to next stage of Floating Offshore Wind Scheme
- 2023 sets record for global wind turbine orders: 155GW procured
- Launch of the Japanese Floating Offshore Wind Technology Research Association
- UK announces over £1 billion budget for renewable energy auction
- A new network focuses on US distributed wind energy
- UK reaches 15GW of onshore wind