- Category: Industry News
The CO2 emissions from the power sector are dropping faster than anticipated: the share of renewables in the generation mix gained almost 10 percentage points in one year, while the coal phase-out steeply accelerated. Eurelectric’s Power Barometer, a set of key industry indicators released today, reflects a historic development in the power sector, and points to the challenges ahead of achieving a climate neutral European economy by 2050.
- Category: Industry News
The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU) has voted unanimously to open the application window for the State’s second solicitation of offshore wind capacity. This second solicitation seeks to award between 1,200 MW and 2,400 MW of offshore wind energy, potentially tripling the State’s committed capacity from 1,100 MW to 3,500 MW.
- Category: Industry News
Poland has developed a plan to deliver 11GW of offshore wind by 2040. The country aims to have 6GW of offshore wind by the end of the decade.
- Category: Industry News
Development of a green hydrogen industry could generate £320bn for the UK economy and sustain up to 120,000 jobs by 2050 according to a new report released by the Offshore Wind Industry Council (OWIC) and the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult.
- Category: Industry News
Greentown Labs and Vineyard Wind have selected three start-ups for the Offshore Wind Challenge. The start-ups will focus on innovations in marine mammal monitoring through data collection, real-time transmission, and analysis. The Challenge, run by Vineyard Wind and Greentown Labs with support from the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC), received more than 60 applications.
- Category: Industry News
The joint project ”Objective criteria for vibration and sound emissions of onshore wind turbines” (TremAc for short) has investigated the effects of infrasound and ground vibrations. In 2012 and 2014, researchers analysed the effects of sound. In 2018, the TremAc project focused on low-frequency sound (including infrasound) and seismic waves (ground vibrations).
- US clean power companies to join forces to build lobbying muscle
- The German offshore wind supply chain needs a short-term boost
- New England for offshore wind launches coalition
- WFO releases Global Offshore Wind Report’s HY1 2020 update
- New data compilation illustrates the maturity and declining cost of wind energy
- Women in Community Energy
- Marine-i calls for new collaborations to develop floating offshore wind
- American wind power moves forward despite second quarter challenges
- US Secretary of Energy announces ARIES
- NREL presents new offshore wind cost optimisation vision
- UK Government plans to quadruple offshore wind power capacity
- Offshore wind will surge to over 234GW by 2030
- 28GW of US offshore wind is achievable by 2022
- China to add 251GW of new wind capacity by 2029
- Wind industry delivers 17% of Europe's electricity
- New industry standard for dismantling, disassembly, recycling and recovery
- 30% annual growth in global pipeline of offshore wind energy projects
- New York governor announces solicitations for 4000MW of renewable energy
- Norway’s GIEK widens focus to include offshore wind
- Interest in hybrid and co-located power plants continues to grow
- New Jersey develops Strategic Offshore Wind Energy Plan
- 219MW of offshore wind energy installed in Germany in first half of 2020
- Joe Biden outlines plan to invest in renewables and electrification
- Industry bodies agree partnership to support low carbon future
- Floating wind Joint Industry Project R&D findings delivered to support 70GW by 2040
- Global investment in new renewables capacity rose 5% in 1H 2020
- EU Energy System Integration and Hydrogen Strategies: no climate neutrality without renewables-based electrification
- European collaboration for development of offshore wind in the North Sea
- GWEC launches task force for floating offshore wind
- The German EU Presidency wants to strengthen offshore wind
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