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Windmills of change: Dutch raise mill in rare operation
Aug 28, 2026 (AFP)
The Waardenburg windmill -- a rare hexagonal mill still grinding grain today -- has graced the banks of the Waal on the Rhine delta for 250 years and is a liste...
UK to accelerate clean energy drive amid Mideast war
Apr 20, 2026 (AFP)
Energy Secretary Ed Miliband will use a speech later in the day to expand on the proposed measures, which include "driving forward plans to massively expand ren...
China added record wind and solar power in 2025, data shows
Jan 28, 2026 (AFP)
The world's second-largest economy added 543 gigawatts of new energy capacity from all sources last year, around twice Germany's entire power generation capacit...
UK nets record offshore wind supply in renewables push
Jan 14, 2026 (AFP)
The Labour government increased the budget for new contracts to attract more developers, after industry groups blamed a lack of bidders in the past on low price...
Trump gets wrong country, wrong bird in windmill rant
Dec 31, 2025 (AFP)
There were two problems with this latest lament: the picture in his Truth Social post on Tuesday was taken years ago in Israel, and it's not a bald eagle. AFP r...
S.Africa seeks to save birds from wind turbine risks
Oct 23, 2025 (AFP)
The Overberg mountains stretched along the horizon, but the monitors -- bundled in scarves -- were focused on activity much closer: around a giant wind turbine,...
Vertical wind turbines may soon power UK railways using tunnel airflow
Oct 23, 2025 (SPX)
A collaboration between the university's Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Q-Sustain Limited has resulted in the design of custom vertical ...
Danish wind giant Orsted to cut workforce by a quarter
Oct 09, 2025 (AFP)
The company said it needed to focus more on its European business and offshore wind, as well as improve its competitiveness. "We're committed to maintaining our...
French-German duo wins mega offshore wind energy project
Sep 24, 2025 (AFP)
The project, called "Centre Manche 2", will be France's largest-ever renewable energy installation. TotalEnergies in a separate statement put the overall invest...
Wind giant Orsted to resume US project after court win
Sep 23, 2025 (AFP)
US President Donald Trump's government ordered a halt to work on the massive Revolution Wind project off the coast of Rhode Island last month, despite 45 of 65 ...
Floating wind power sets sail in Japan's energy shift
Sep 21, 2025 (AFP)
Still heavily reliant on imported fossil fuels, Japan has declared offshore wind energy a "trump card" in its drive to make renewables its top power source by 2...
Transportation Department wind farm funding cuts to save $679M
Aug 29, 2025 (UPI)
The money will instead be shifted to the American shipbuilding industry, a move that will help ensure America's maritime dominance, Transportation Secretary Sea...
Japan confident on wind power after Mitsubishi blow
Aug 28, 2025 (AFP)
Japan remains optimistic about the adoption of renewable energy despite Mitsubishi pulling out of three big offshore wind projects, the government said Thursday...
Japan's Mitsubishi pulls out of key wind power projects
Aug 27, 2025 (AFP)
Japan's Mitsubishi is withdrawing from three wind power projects deemed no longer profitable, the company said on Wednesday, a setback for a renewable energy so...
'Let's go fly a kite': Capturing wind for clean energy in Ireland
Aug 07, 2025 (AFP)
"We use a kite to capture the wind and a generator at the bottom of it that captures the power," Padraic Doherty of Kitepower, the Dutch firm behind the venture...
Germany, wind power groups seek to cut China reliance
Aug 05, 2025 (AFP)
China dominates the global industry for extracting and refining rare earth minerals but since April has required licences to export some of the materials, trigg...
Drone swarm explores turbulent airflows near wind turbines
Jul 14, 2025 (SPX)
The project focuses on airflows within two rotor diameters-roughly 230 meters-behind a turbine, where wind speed slows and turbulence increases due to energy ex...
Dogs on the trail of South Africa's endangered tortoises
Jul 10, 2025 (AFP)
The dog stopped abruptly in front of a small bush and lay down, signalling a find as Delta's handler moved in to search the surrounding area. Hidden in the tall...
UK ditches mega green energy supply project from Morocco
Jun 26, 2025 (AFP)
Electricity was intended to be brought some 4,000 kilometres (2,485 miles) from north Africa via undersea cables to supply seven million UK households. But a mi...
Thailand credits prey releases for 'extraordinary' tiger recovery
Jun 20, 2025 (AFP)
The release is part of a project run by the government and conservation group WWF to provide tigers with prey to hunt and eat, which has helped the big cat make...
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