- Category: Industry News
Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker has signed climate change legislation that codifies into law the Baker-Polito Administration’s commitment to achieve Net Zero emissions in 2050.
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Dr. Preben Maegaard, founder and long-term director of the Nordic Folkecenter for Renewable Energy, passed away yesterday. Preben was involved in the founding of WWEA 20 years ago and became its founding president, serving from 2001 to 2005. In 2008, he received, together with his wife Jane Kruse, the World Wind Energy Award for his outstanding contributions to the dissemination of wind power and renewable energy.
- Category: Industry News
The Crown Estate has announced that it is commencing work to design and deliver a new leasing opportunity for early commercial-scale floating wind projects in the Celtic Sea.
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The Offshore Wind Industry Council (OWIC) has published new research which shows that the number of people working in direct and indirect jobs in the UK’s offshore wind industry is set to rise from 26,000 currently to over 69,800 by 2026. Of the 69,848 jobs by 2026, 40,700 will be direct (nearly 60%) and 29,148 will be indirect (in companies supplying other industries as well as offshore wind).
- Category: Industry News
Crown Estate Scotland has announced the outcome of its review of the option structure for ScotWind Leasing, the leasing round for offshore wind farms in Scottish waters. The review was announced last month (February) in response to the new market dynamics of the offshore wind sector following the result of The Crown Estate’s recent auction for sites in waters around England and Wales.
- Category: Industry News
According to preliminary wind power statistics published by the World Wind Energy Association, the world set a new record in new wind power installations, adding 93GW of new wind energy capacity in 2020. Some countries set new installation records, including China, the USA and Russia, while most European markets saw only modest growth.
- North Sea deal to protect jobs in green energy transition
- Vestas was the largest supplier of wind turbines in 2020
- Twenty-nine US states have the potential to generate offshore wind energy
- Oregon to investigate 3GW of floating wind by 2030
- Asia Pacific installs 56GW of new wind power capacity in 2020
- North and Latin America increased wind power installations by 62% in 2020
- Taiwanese alliance for offshore wind energy development officially launched
- Global commissioning of wind turbines was up 59% in 2020
- Global offshore wind O&M market to grow 16% annually
- ABS publishes US offshore wind report
- Africa is only tapping into 0.01% of its wind power potential
- Study on community energy in Germany and Japan
- Over 100.000 GWO trained workers
- Wind is not growing fast enough for EU economy to go climate-neutral
- Over 6GW of new offshore wind capacity added in 2020
- UK launches offshore wind manufacturing investment support scheme
- GWEC India and MEC+ team up in India
- Fisherman and other mariners can supplement income in offshore wind industry
- International working group for remote and autonomous training standards launched
- Global offshore wind installations to peak in 2030 at 28.5GW
- Twelve UK companies receive funding and support from the Offshore Wind Growth Partnership
- Two-part documentary podcast exploring the potential of floating offshore wind
- U.S. Department of Energy announces fund for transformative clean energy solutions
- Records set for global offshore wind financial investment in 2020
- Total to outpace Iberdrola and Ørsted on renewable power capacity by 2030
- Delay to Scottish offshore wind leasing
- OWA publishes new design recommendations to prevent export cable failure
- Offshore wind industry installed 5,206MW in 2020
- Latest UK seabed leasing risks raising costs of offshore wind
- Europe invests a record €26bn in offshore wind
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