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Wind turbines can be clustered while avoiding turbulent wakes of their neighbors
Jul 20, 2021 (UPI)
According to a new study, published Tuesday in the journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, scientists have developed a new data analysis method to help win...
Shell, France's EDF to build US offshore windfarm
Jul 01, 2021 (AFP)
The 1.5 gigawatt facility will supply power to 700,000 homes every year, EDF said in a statement. Construction will begin in 2024. The windfarm will be located ...
Wind and the sun power Greek islands' green energy switch
Jun 29, 2021 (AFP)
The small island of around 800 inhabitants is the first island in the Mediterranean to generate almost all of its electricity from renewable sources under a pio...
US to open California coast to wind power
May 25, 2021 (AFP)
The opening up of California waters came after a resolution to longstanding opposition from the Pentagon, which uses the ocean waters for military exercises and...
US approves its biggest offshore wind farm yet
May 11, 2021 (AFP)
The "Vineyard Wind" project calls for up to 84 wind turbines to be built 12 nautical miles off Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, two islands off the Massachusett...
Vertical turbines could be the future for wind farms
Apr 28, 2021 (SPX)
A research team from the School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics (ECM) at Oxford Brookes led by Professor Iakovos Tzanakis conducted an in-depth study ...
Researchers working to further develop monopile production for offshore wind farms
Apr 28, 2021 (SPX)
To ensure that these can withstand storms, waves and aggressive saltwater over many years and still be produced economically, materials researchers at Saarland ...
Blowing in the wind: Fishermen threaten South Korea carbon plans
Apr 28, 2021 (AFP)
The centrepiece of the scheme is what the government says will be the world's biggest offshore wind power complex. The eight-gigawatt farm off Sinan in the coun...
In Texas, a rancher swaps his oil pumps for wind turbines
Apr 20, 2021 (AFP)
Like JR and Bobby Ewing, lead characters in the hit 1970s and 80s TV series "Dallas," Helmers hosted oil wells on his land for decades. But with renewable energ...
US to invest heavily to boost offshore wind farms
Mar 29, 2021 (AFP)
The objective of the initiative -- which will be carried out by the departments of commerce, the interior, transport and energy -- is to produce 30 gigawatts of...
TechnipFMC enters partnership with Magnora to develop floating offshore wind projects
Mar 18, 2021 (SPX)
Magnora holds a strategic position within the renewable energy sector as an owner in offshore wind, onshore wind, and solar development projects and is a key en...
Field study shows icing can cost wind turbines up to 80% of power production
Mar 08, 2021 (SPX)
That disrupts blade aerodynamics. That disrupts the balance of the entire turbine. And that can disrupt energy production by up to 80 percent, according to a re...
BP enters UK offshore wind sector
Feb 08, 2021 (AFP)
The oil giant and German power firm Energie Baden-Wuerttemberg AG (EnBW) have been selected as preferred bidder for two 60-year leases in the North Sea. "This m...
Denmark moves forward on North Sea 'energy island'
Feb 06, 2021 (AFP)
Parliament in June adopted a political environmental framework aimed at reducing the country's CO2 emissions by 70 percent by 2030, which included plans for the...
$43 bn deal for 'world's biggest' offshore wind farm in South Korea
Feb 05, 2021 (AFP)
South Korea has few energy resources of its own and relies on imported coal -- a cheap but dirty fuel -- for around 40 percent of its electricity. President Moo...
Magnora enters partnership to establish floating wind company
Feb 01, 2021 (SPX)
Magnora's strategic partner has vast experience over many decades in all basins, water depths and weather conditions. It has broad experience from unique techno...
Renewables become biggest UK electricity source: study
Jan 28, 2021 (AFP)
Biomass, hydro, solar and wind generated a record 42 percent of UK electricity in 2020, showed a study this week from climate think tanks Ember and Agora Energi...
Deutsche WindGuard unlocks complex wind sites with ZX Lidars
Jan 11, 2021 (SPX)
"Deutsche WindGuard has been supporting lidar applications since 2004," says Johannes Cordes, Wind and Data Analyst at Deutsche WindGuard's Wind Resource Assess...
ACWA Power signs three agreements for the first foreign investment based independent wind power project in Azerbaijan
Dec 30, 2020 (SPX)
Key agreements signed by ACWA Power, a leading Saudi developer, investor and operator of power generation and water desalination plants in high growth markets, ...
Wind powers more than half of UK electricity for first time
Dec 29, 2020 (AFP)
The percentage of wind power in the country's energy mix hit a record 50.67 percent on Saturday, the company said over the weekend, beating the previous record ...
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