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16 Dutch companies and research institutes have launched the program for offshore wind: GROW, Growth through Research, development & demonstration in Offshore Wind. The consortium's mission is to bring the cost of offshore wind further down to seven eurocents per kWh by 2030. Over the next five years, GROW will help introduce innovations to the market. GROW will spend at least € 100 million on research, development and demonstration projects over the next five years.
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ExxonMobil and ENER-G have created a free guide to energy efficiency measures for the wind energy sector. The guide provides advice and practical recommendations on how managers can prioritise productivity while also saving energy.
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US senators have introduced legislation that would extend the 30% Investment Tax Credit (ITC) for offshore wind in the USA.
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MAKE’s Q2/2016 Global Wind Power Market Outlook Update presents an analysis of global and regional wind power installation forecasts through 2025. Policy clarity in the industry’s two largest markets – China and the US – boosts MAKE’s 10-year global outlook by 1%, the overall impact of these two markets balanced in part by significant downgrades in several countries. Upgrades to both the China and US markets, however, erase a previously expected growth peak in 2018. Instead, two distinct growth periods, 2016 to 2020 and 2021 to 2025, split the global outlook.
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WindEurope welcomes the agreement signed by 10 EU countries to cooperate on offshore energy in Northern Europe. Today in Luxembourg, Energy Ministers from 10 EU Member States signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and Work Programme to enhance their cooperation on renewable energy, particularly offshore wind.
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With the right build out and regulatory framework the industry is confident that it can achieve cost levels below €80/MWh for projects reaching final investment decision in 2025, including the costs of connecting to the grid. This means offshore wind will be fully competitive with new conventional power generation within a decade.
- BOEM initiates planning for California offshore renewable energy task force
- BOEM proposes New York offshore wind lease sale
- New global report shows record year for renewable energy
- Latin American wind power market faces uncertainty beyond 2018
- New version of the MEASNET site assessment procedure
- New annual capacity in APeC will more than double by 2025
- Friends of Floating Offshore Wind join forces
- China produced almost half of new global wind installations in 2015
- NREL distributes wind competitiveness improvement project round four funding
- Renewables expected to be the fastest growing energy source
- Scaled-back renewable energy ambitions dampen Europe's investment potential
- DNV GL predicts larger and smarter turbines
- China’s wind power installed capacity will escalate to 495GW by 2030
- Renewable energy is more competitive than ever
- The first Dutch offshore tender will trigger cost reductions
- US industry starts construction on over 2GW
- Winds were above normal relative to the long-term in Q1 2016
- ORE Catapult and Tecnalia to collaborate on offshore renewable energy
- Wind energy leads all new power generation
- American wind power supports a record number of jobs
- Renewables posted record growth rate in 2015
- Fortune 500 companies, cities and universities dawn as major wind energy customer class
- A booming outlook through 2019 for North American market
- Vestas edges Goldwind to return to global wind turbine OEM market leadership
- Community wind threatened by discriminating policies
- Eyes in the sky technology opens the way to rapid, safe and repeatable inspections
- UK tendering regime reduces the cost of connecting offshore wind farms
- World market for small wind turbines reaches 830 MW
- By providing market visibility the US offshore wind industry can drive down costs
- Offshore wind industry is confident of driving costs below £100/MWh by 2020