- Category: Industry News
Amongst major global onshore wind energy markets with more than 5GW installed, Australia, Mexico and Brazil top the list for markets with turbines which routinely achieve a high level of availability and power output. This was the conclusion of recent market analysis undertaken by Energy Data Alliance partners IntelStor and WindESCo.
- Category: Industry News
The Supergen Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Hub has launched its second round of Flexible Funding to advance research into the opportunities and challenges of offshore wind, wave and tidal energy.
- Category: Industry News
The European Commission is releasing €980 million of funding for key European energy infrastructure projects with major cross-border benefits. The EU funding comes from the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF), the European support programme for trans-European infrastructure.
- Category: Industry News
The European wind industry is the global leader in the wind turbine market, realising projects in more than 80 countries world-wide. As such, our companies rely on both European and global supply chains for raw materials and components. The COVID-19 virus is impeding international trade, creating delays and uncertainties for different industrial sectors. As the number of infections rises, the European wind industry is likely to be impacted.
- Category: Industry News
A 3D printed anchor and a self-charging mooring line monitoring device are two of eight innovative technologies announced as winners of a technology acceleration competition, funded by the Scottish Government and run by the Carbon Trust’s Floating Wind Joint Industry Project (Floating Wind JIP). The competition was designed to address four key industry challenge areas, that need to be overcome to commercialise floating wind.
- Category: Industry News
The organisations Wind Denmark and Hydrogen Denmark have agreed to initiate a strategic collaboration with goals of securing the spread of Power-to-X (PtX) in Denmark and breaking down regulatory barriers. The two organisations have decided to name the collaboration: The PtX-Alliance.
- AWEA expects 30GW of offshore wind capacity in the USA by 2030
- Tasmania announces 200% renewable energy target
- The Virginia Clean Economy Act includes 5.2GW offshore wind target
- Record amount of wind turbine capacity ordered globally in 2019
- Women in wind participants and global ambassadors announced
- Public tenders and auctions have driven 80% of current renewable energy capacity in Latin America and the Caribbean
- A third of Ireland’s electricity now comes from wind energy
- New Jersey announces offshore wind solicitation schedule of 7,5GW through 2035
- UK Government to unlock onshore wind
- Argentinean wind power pioneer and long-term WWEA board member Erico Spinadel passed away
- GWEC and JWPA launch joint Task Force to drive offshore wind growth in Japan
- Update on the impact of COVID-19 on China’s wind industry
- Wind energy O&M costs continue to escalate
- Greentown Labs and Vineyard Wind form partnership to support offshore wind innovation
- WFO publishes its Global Offshore Wind Report for 2019
- Vestas still rules turbine market, but challengers are closing in
- Europe now gets 15% of its electricity from wind but is not building enough to deliver the Green Deal
- Africa and Middle East add 894MW of wind energy capacity in 2019
- Trump proposes US$188.8 million in Fiscal Year 2021 for BOEM
- Europe installs 3.6GW of offshore wind in 2019
- Americas wind installations rise 12% in 2019
- 9,143MW of wind power added to US grid in 2019
- UK Offshore Wind Expansion - meeting the challenges of the Habitats Directive
- 7 UK companies secure Offshore Wind Growth Partnership funding
- Brazilian offshore wind market estimated at 700GW
- Corporate clean energy buying leapt 44% in 2019
- DecomTools project to develop concepts for decommissioning of wind turbines
- German offshore wind reaches 7.5GW of installed capacity in 2019
- Women in Wind Global Leadership Program announces call for applications
- INESC TEC to lead European centre to test robots at offshore wind farms
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