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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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President Trump has proposed a US$ 188.8 million Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 budget for BOEM to manage offshore energy and mineral resources. The FY 2021 budget includes approximately US$ 26.5 million to advance offshore renewable energy development.
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Europe has installed 3.6GW of new offshore wind capacity in 2019, according to statistics released today by WindEurope. 10 new offshore wind farms came online across 5 countries. The UK accounted for nearly half of the new capacity with 1.7 GW. Then came Germany (1.1 GW), Denmark (374 MW) and Belgium (370 MW). And Portugal installed 8 MW of floating offshore wind. Europe now has 22 GW of offshore wind. The UK and Germany account for three-quarters of it. Denmark, Belgium and the Netherlands share nearly all of the rest.
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The latest data released by the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) shows North, Central and South America and the Caribbean installed 13,427MW capacity of wind power in 2019, an increase of 12 per cent on the previous year which saw 11,892MW installed.
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The US wind industry experienced its third strongest year on record in 2019 as project developers added 9,143MW of wind power capacity to the grid. Another 44,000MW of wind projects – representing over US$ 62 billion in investment, are either under construction or in advanced development.
- 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
- 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
- Pakistan signs deal for 560MW of new wind energy capacity
- Wind industry to invest $1.8bn in Colombia in next three years following successful tender
- Interactive webtool launched to bring together UK offshore renewable energy research
- Top three western wind turbine OEMs to control 60% of market by 2028
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