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The Taiwan Offshore Wind Industry Association (TOWIA), an alliance of eight offshore wind farm companies has been officially launched to support the development of the industry in Taiwan.
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The wind market commissioned nearly 100 gigawatts of new build in 2020 and installations grew 59% year-on-year, according to the report 2020 Global Wind Turbine Market Shares published by BloombergNEF (BNEF). Developers commissioned some 96.3GW of wind turbines globally in 2020, compared with 60.7GW the previous year. Most of these were on land (94%), as the addition of new turbines at sea fell to 6.1GW – a 19% drop compared to 2019.
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Wood Mackenzie’s latest report shows that the global offshore wind operations and maintenance (O&M) market is expected to grow 16% annually to reach €10 billion by 2029. Europe remains the biggest O&M market by region, reaching €5.5 billion by 2029.
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American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) has published a report evaluating the US offshore wind industry’s readiness to deliver the 40GW of offshore wind capacity the International Energy Agency estimates will be installed by 2040.
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According to the latest data released by GWEC, the Africa and Middle East region installed 821 MW of new wind power capacity in 2020, bringing total capacity in the region to over 7 GW.
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The first results of a survey of community energy entities in Germany and Japan show that the shareholders in such projects are predominantly male. In the companies surveyed in North Rhine-Westphalia, the proportion of women among the shareholders is 29%, who hold 27% of the shares. Japanese community energy entities also have a share of women of below 30%.
- 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
- US wind developers commission 10GW of wind energy in Q4 2020
- New Directors join Scottish Renewables’ Board
- Consortium awards $2.6million to advance offshore wind innovation
- Onshore wind energy scores lowest ever price under new Spanish auction design
- South Africa to auction 6,800MW of renewables
- DecomBlades consortium awarded funding for wind turbine blade recycling project
- IWEA rebrands as Wind Energy Ireland
- AREG and European Space Agency sign MOI to support renewables sector through space-based activities
- TenneT scaling up transmission capacity standard to accelerate offshore wind deployment
- TenneT announces tenders for offshore grid connections
- DOE and federal partners announce funding for offshore wind environmental research
- Application window opens for ScotWind Leasing