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A Word About Wind has launched its Emerging Markets Attractiveness Index report for 2018. The index ranks the top 30 emerging markets that investors should consider when investing in wind in Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America. The list considers factors including political and economic stability for investors, alongside the growth of electricity demand and potential for wind growth, in order to rank the countries by overall potential.
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The Energy and Natural Resources Ministry from Turkey has opened an auction to build four wind farm plants with a total capacity of 1,000MW.
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Poland has announced plans to develop 8GW of offshore wind by 2035. Poland will soon pass a law to this effect, spelling out the annual volumes up to this date. The news came as Poland opened a 1 GW onshore wind energy auction on Monday 5 November.
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Danish DTU Wind Energy and German Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems IWES have joined forces and national funded projects in the new € 17.6 million Reliablade project. For the project, researchers will develop a blade design for a 40 meter blade. This will serve as a blueprint for manufacturing two blades at Fraunhofer IWES and challenge them in experimental tests at the DTU in order to intentionally damage them under controlled conditions.
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Seven US states, from Nebraska to Massachusetts, will soon build enough wind turbines to more than double their capacity to generate wind energy, according to the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) U.S. Wind Industry Third Quarter 2018 Market Report.
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Floating wind has an important role to play in supporting the development of the offshore wind supply chain and contributing to 50GW of offshore wind in the UK by 2050, according to a new report.
- 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
- New auction scheme will boost annual wind power capacity additions in China from 2021
- African markets are expected to add 30GW of wind power capacity from 2018 to 2027
- US wind farms surpass 90GW with strong demand from Fortune 500 brands and utilities
- Unprecedented tax credit clarity supports a near-term installation boom in the US wind market
- Europe adds 4.5GW of wind energy in first half of 2018
- Guaranteed clean energy auctions in the UK in 2019
- Asia Pacific is growing into one of the largest sub-regions for wind energy in the world