- Category: Industry News
Poland has revealed details of its draft energy strategy to 2040. It plans to increase its power capacity from 40 GW to 73 GW and expects the share of coal to fall from 80% of electricity consumption today to 60% by 2030.
- Category: Industry News
Almost 100 organisations led by major corporates today signalled their willingness to do more on climate action calling on European governments to make it easier to invest and directly source renewable energy. The group signed this declaration at the RE-Source 2018 event in Amsterdam.
- Category: Industry News
Falling technology costs means unsubsidised solar and/or onshore wind are now the cheapest source of new bulk power in all major economies except Japan, according to BloombergNEF's '2H 2018 LCOE' report. This includes China and India, where not long ago coal was king. In India, best-in-class solar and wind plants are now half the cost of new coal plants.
- Category: Industry News
The US Department of Energy's (DOE) Wind Energy Technologies Office has announced a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) entitled "Advanced Next-Generation, High-Efficiency, Lightweight Wind Turbine Generator."
- Category: Industry News
Wind speeds in India during the 2018 monsoon season were significantly higher than normal, and up to 20% higher than long-term averages in some regions, according to wind performance maps Vaisala published. These higher wind speeds will benefit wind farm production; this is welcome news for wind energy operators and investors, who have faced several years of lower-than-normal wind energy production during the monsoon period.
- Category: Industry News
Wind energy is set overtake coal, nuclear and gas to become the EU’s largest power source well before 2030. This is according to the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) 2018 World Energy Outlook.
- US offshore wind market handbook to help investors
- China named as most promising emerging wind market
- Turkey opens auction for wind farms with a capacity of 1000MW
- Poland announces plans to develop 8GW of offshore wind by 2035
- Strategic collaboration in the field of rotor blade research
- Seven US states to double their wind power in near term as Q3 development picks up
- Study reveals long-term UK floating wind potential
- Years of growth ahead for Eastern European onshore wind
- Denmark and Ethiopia expand cooperation on wind energy
- BOEM to move forward with US offshore wind development
- Permitting issues leave latest German onshore wind auction under-subscribed
- Update to OWA Floating LiDAR Roadmap outlines requirements to drive commercial acceptance
- US wind energy foundation changes name
- AWEA launches new worker safety campaign
- GWEC creates taskforce to accelerate global offshore wind deployment
- Renewables-based electrification the key to decarbonising Europe's economy
- JIP report charts course for build-out of port infrastructure to support floating offshore wind
- Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa to stimulate renewable energy investments in Angola
- Periodic repainting no longer required for German offshore wind turbines
- European wind energy to grow over next five years
- India’s NTPC awards 1.2GW in wind energy auction
- Sentient Science launches The Wind Challenge: a competitive turbine technology online game
- Round 3 of the RenovAr announced in Argentina
- Average offshore wind farm would create 5,000 jobs in the USA
- New research provides clarity on fish spawning hotspots near offshore wind farms
- US distributed wind has surpassed 1GW
- DOE 2017 wind market reports indicate strong wind power installation trends and falling prices
- US business network to assist in development of over 10GW new wind farms
- Heatwave hits European wind energy, boosts solar production
- DOE announces request for information on offshore wind energy R&D facilities
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