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World's largest floating offshore wind farm starts full service, Norway's Equinor says
Aug 23, 2023 (UPI)
Some of the turbines started spinning from the floating, offshore Hywind Tampen facility in the Norwegian waters of the North Sea last year, though the full cap...
DLR opens wind energy research farm in Krummendeich
Aug 17, 2023 (SPX)
The goal is to better understand wind energy with all its influencing factors. In collaboration with commercial enterprises and other research institutions, DLR...
U.S. identifies three new areas for potential offshore wind energy development
Jul 31, 2023 (UPI)
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management identified three new wind energy areas off the coast of Delaware, Maryland and Virginia totaling 356,550 acres for potenti...
Biden to visit Philly Shipyard to announce construction of offshore wind vessel
Jul 20, 2023 (UPI)
Biden's appearance at Philly Shipyard was intended to highlight progress under the president's "Made in America" agenda, with 1,000 workers across nine labor un...
New transmission line to carry wind energy electricity from Wyoming to Nevada
Jun 20, 2023 (UPI)
Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland and Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm were both at the groundbreaking ceremony for the TransWest Express Transmission ...
Brazil faces dilemma: endangered macaw vs. wind farm
May 23, 2023 (AFP)
Home to more than 90 percent of Brazil's booming wind-power industry, the northeast is known for strong, steady winds that President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva w...
Spire to provide TrueOcean with weather forecasts for offshore wind farm development
May 17, 2023 (SPX)
TrueOcean, a leading, cloud-based marine data platform that simplifies ocean data management to provide fast and easy access to information for successful offsh...
Sweden greenlights two offshore windpower farms
May 16, 2023 (AFP)
The two farms are expected to contribute up 6.5 terawatt-hours when completed, which the government said is expected to take seven to 10 years. Swedish state-ow...
European summit to spur wind energy production in North Sea
Apr 24, 2023 (AFP)
Hosted by Belgium in the coastal town of Ostend, the meeting will gather the leaders of EU members France, Germany, Ireland, Denmark, the Netherlands and Luxemb...
European leaders vow to boost North Sea wind energy production
Apr 24, 2023 (AFP)
EU members France, Germany, Ireland, Denmark, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, along with Britain and Norway, signed on to the ambition, set out in a declaration...
Wind farms drive away certain seabirds: study
Apr 13, 2023 (AFP)
Researchers based in Germany monitored numbers of red-throated loons -- a long-necked duck-like bird also known as a diver -- around five offshore wind farm (OW...
Wind project near S.African elephant park riles activists
Mar 31, 2023 (AFP)
More than 200 turbines are slated to be erected in the vicinity of the Addo Elephant National Park, in the country's south, after the Environment Ministry dismi...
UK offshore staff 'want public ownership of energy firms'
Mar 06, 2023 (AFP)
The poll, contained in a report by environmental campaigners and trade unions, quizzed more than 1,092 workers across the sector in England and Scotland. The re...
Machine learning could help kites and gliders to harvest wind energy
Feb 08, 2023 (SPX)
Through new research published in EPJ E, Antonio Celani and colleagues at the Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics, Italy, demonstrate how a...
Polish MPs vote to make building wind turbines easier
Feb 08, 2023 (AFP)
The coal-reliant country is due 35 billion euros ($38 billion) in EU Covid recovery funds but must first fulfil several conditions laid out by Brussels, includi...
New research shows porpoises not harmed by offshore windfarms
Jan 18, 2023 (AFP)
The pile driving required to build offshore turbines can harm or even kill noise-sensitive marine mammals like porpoises, sparking concern among environmentalis...
UH professor developing new technologies to improve safety, resiliency of offshore energy systems
Jan 15, 2023 (SPX)
He is the first UH professor to win this GRP early-career research fellowship. "I am happy and honored to be the first one, but hopefully there will be a lot mo...
A healthy wind
Dec 05, 2022 (SPX)
A new MIT study finds that the health benefits associated with wind power could more than quadruple if operators prioritized turning down output from the most p...
Intelligent drones to make wind turbines far more efficient
Nov 23, 2022 (SPX)
The Independent Research Fund Denmark is funding the project with DKK 2.8 million. The project is headed by Associate Professor Erdal Kayacan from the Departmen...
Nine countries join alliance to boost offshore windpower
Nov 08, 2022 (AFP)
The Global Offshore Wind Alliance (GOWA), established to "remove barriers" to the energy, was set up by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), Denma...
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