- Category: Industry News
The National Offshore Wind R&D Consortium, established by DOE’s Wind Energy Technologies Office (WETO), has announced the availability of funding for additional offshore wind R&D topics.
- Category: Industry News
Since 1995, wind power has benefited to the tune of US$80.7 billion in project finance allocation from the World Bank on 565 different projects around the world. Brazil has been the single largest beneficiary of these investments, receiving US$24.2 billion (30.0% of total) between 1998 – 2018 and adding more than 4.5GW of wind energy to their allocation of 14.1GW at the end of 2018. The remainder of capacity additions in Brazil were completed through a combination of public and private finance from other sources.
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Bids to build a 600 MW offshore wind farm off the coast of Dunkirk came in at a winning price of “below” €50/MWh the French Government announced. The winning bid came from a consortium led by EDF Renewables, Innogy and Enbridge.
- Category: Industry News
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) latest Energy Infrastructure Update revealed that the total capacity online of renewable electricity sources - hydro, wind, solar, biomass and geothermal - exceeded coal capacity for the first time in April in the USA.
- Category: Industry News
The Carbon Trust’s Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA) has launched a competition to accelerate the development of technologies with the potential to reduce vessel emissions and fuel consumption. Up to £100,000 in funding will be awarded to the winning technologies, from a total funding pot of £300,000, to support technology development or demonstration.
- Category: Industry News
In the German offshore wind energy industry in 2018, almost 800 market participants with around 24,500 employees generated more than 9 billion euros of revenue according to a study from market research institute wind:research.
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- New standard for the design of wind turbines
- Community power in Germany is increasingly being marginalised
- Global Wind Day 2019: celebrating the future of wind energy around the world
- Strengthening America’s “Electric Highway” will fast-track U.S. economic growth
- Collapse in wind energy growth jeopardises German and EU renewables targets
- WindEurope launches campaign to mobilise wind energy professional to go vote in the upcoming European Elections
- New Belgian framework for offshore wind farm tenders
- Global offshore wind energy is at a tipping point
- US wind development pipeline grew by 6,146MW in first quarter
- Greece unveils 300MW auction for wind energy
- Europe invests € 27 billion in new wind farms in 2018
- 20,641 wind turbines installed in 2018, produced by 37 manufacturers
- US wind power grew 8% in 2018 amid record demand
- Taiwan considers to mandate local vessel use in some offshore wind activities
- Global Wind Report forecasts over 300GW capacity to be added in next 5 years
- US Department of Energy announces US$ 28 million in funding for wind energy research
- Responsible wind energy development underpins new agreement for Northeast US waters
- Reducing cyclone and earthquake challenges for wind turbines
- GROW and Dutch ministry sign collaboration agreement to strengthen innovation in offshore wind energy
- 723GW of new global wind power capacity expected from 2019 to 2028
- UK and Taiwan sign MOU on offshore wind
- Tenth edition of data book reveals trends in US and global renewable energy growth
- GWEC and World Bank to cooperate on development of global offshore wind markets
- Study of R&D pathways for supersized wind turbine blades
- WFO present global offshore wind database and 500 by 50 mission
- Offshore wind energy to provide a third of all UK electricity by 2030
- Wind power capacity worldwide reaches 600GW in 2018
- Wind now provides 14% of Europe's electricity
- Balearic Islands commit to 100% renewables by 2050
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