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California Governor Gavin Newsom has announced, as part of his revised budget, that $20 million has been made available to speed up the development of offshore wind energy.
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A coalition of industry and academic organisations have developed a new technology to enable circularity for thermoset composites, the material used to make wind turbine blades. A new initiative entitled CETEC (Circular Economy for Thermosets Epoxy Composites) has been established.
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The Clean Power Quarterly Market Report, released by the American Clean Power Association (ACP), shows that U.S. project developers installed nearly 40 percent more wind power in the first three months of 2021 than in the first three months of 2020.
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New research from Oxford Brookes University claims that the vertical turbine design is more efficient than traditional horizontal turbines in large scale wind farms, and when set in pairs the vertical turbines increase each other’s performance by up to 15%.
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DNV has launched a new collaborative research project to develop an automated data processing procedure for verification of detected wind turbine blade defects. The research project, which is being conducted in partnership with the University of Bristol and Perceptual Robotics, will investigate the automated verification, validation and processing of inspection data, collected by autonomous drones, to improve inspection quality and performance.
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With its ‘Fit-for-55 Package’ the European Union wants to create the right framework for an emission reduction of 55% by 2030 and set the course for carbon neutrality by 2050. The package will include a higher renewable energy target, but targets alone won’t deliver the wind volume Europe needs. WindEurope outlines the wind industry’s key policy priorities for the ‘Fit-for-55 Package’.
- Delivering a subsea superhighway of electricity transmission
- Renewable electricity expanded at fastest pace in two decades
- Launch of the report "Onshore Wind Energy in Poland
- State of Massachusetts launches offshore wind tender
- OWA announces Stage IV research focus areas
- Brazil publishes guidelines for upcoming energy tender
- Consortium aims to improve the cybersecurity of the US wind fleet
- Offshore wind a big driver of generation installed under CfD scheme
- France opens offshore wind tender
- Report identifies 22 shovel ready regional and interregional transmission projects in the USA
- Offshore wind final investment decisions to grow 57% outside China by 2022
- Texas icing event led to over $4 billion financial loss for wind farms
- Biden targets 50% reduction in US green house gas emissions by 2030
- New Jersey launches competitive solicitation for offshore wind transmission solutions
- UK announces new funding scheme for floating wind
- US Secretary of the Interior establishes Climate Task Force
- Berkeley Lab study shows expected cost of wind energy declines
- European TSOs launch Eurobar initiative for standardised offshore grids
- European renewable energy PPA prices defined by stability in Q1 2021
- Research programme to identify the potential of renewable energy around the Isles of Scilly
- WindEurope releases its annual report “Wind Energy Financing and Investment Trends”
- World adds record new renewable energy capacity in 2020
- BOEM advances offshore wind in US east coast energy market
- Biden-Harris Administration set a national target for offshore wind development
- Massachusetts Governor signed next generation climate policy roadmap legislation into law
- Preben Maegaard, WWEA Founding President, passed away
- The Crown Estate to create new floating wind leasing opportunity in the Celtic Sea
- More than 69,000 jobs and £60 billion private investment in UK offshore wind by 2026
- Crown Estate Scotland completes ScotWind Leasing review
- Worldwide wind capacity reaches 744GW