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The operations and maintenance market in the wind energy sector will likely see cost increases through the next 5 – 7 years as full wrap service contacts become more common, and more lucrative for wind turbine OEMs according to IntelStor. Since 2010, the average cost of a maintenance contract has increased 20.9%, driven by higher than expected maintenance costs for ageing assets, along with a more robust scope of service.
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Greentown Labs and Vineyard Wind have announced their partnership to run a Greentown Launch accelerator program focused on offshore wind innovations. The Greentown Labs and Vineyard Wind Launch program will identify and deploy innovations that enhance offshore monitoring technologies focused on protecting marine mammals.
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Globally 5,194MW of offshore wind capacity went into operation during 2019 according the Global Offshore Wind Report 2019 published by World Forum Offshore Wind (WFO).
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Global commissioning of wind turbines was up 22% in 2019, thanks to a bumper year in China and the U.S., and an acceleration offshore. A further 24% jump, to 75GW, is expected in 2020. Developers commissioned almost 61GW of wind turbines globally in 2019, compared with 50GW in the previous year. Most of these were on land (88%) but the share of turbines installed offshore is growing, up four percentage points to 12%. Just four manufacturers accounted for more than half, or 55%, of the machines deployed: Denmark’s Vestas, Spain’s Siemens Gamesa, China’s Goldwind, and General Electric of the U.S.
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Europe installed 15.4 GW of new wind energy in 2019. Three quarters of this was onshore wind, 11.8 GW, new offshore wind was 3.6 GW. Europe now has 205 GW of wind energy. And it accounted for 15% of all electricity consumption in Europe last year.
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The latest data released by the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) shows Africa and the Middle East installed 894MW capacity of wind power in 2019, a decrease of 7% on the previous year which saw 962MW installed. GWEC expects that 10.7GW of wind energy capacity will be installed between 2020-2024.
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- 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
- TenneT increases offshore wind energy connection capacity to 7,132MW
- Late surge in offshore wind financings helps 2019 renewables investment to overtake 2018
- Wind energy ready to help deliver Europe’s Green Deal Investment Plan
- Ocean Renewable Energy Action Coalition launches to accelerate global offshore wind capacity
- US DOE launches energy storage grand challenge
- Offshore wind to drive 8 million jobs
- Wind industry calls for additional 7GW of wind energy to be installed in Thailand by 2037
- GWEC and OLADE team-up to drive the energy transition in Latin America
- Latin America and the Caribbean announce new renewables target
- Wind industry commits to greater gender diversity at industry events
- Boosting R&D for wind energy is key to Europe's Green Deal
- Energy Innovation Cluster and ORE Catapult collaborate to drive North Sea offshore innovation
- Wind energy set to power 30% of global electricity production by 2050
- The EU's big goals for offshore wind are achievable
- The Offshore Wind Growth Partnership and Sharing in Growth join forces
- US House unveils GREEN Act to extend ITC, PTC
- New Jersey to increase offshore wind goal to 7,500MW by 2035
- Distributed wind competitiveness improvement project to help US manufacturers
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