offshore wind

Offshore Wind in EU

Europe is expected to continue dominating the global offshore wind industry, but the Asia Pacific and North American regions will soon represent significant market shares as technological innovations reduce many bottlenecks[read more]

mid-Atlantic offshore wind

Atlantic Wind Connection plans to enable the Atlantic Coast to use off-shore wind efficiently. When completed, the AWC will be able to carry as much as 7,000 MW of offshore wind energy to consumers along the US East Coast.[read more]

offshore wind geography

The ideal conditions for an offshore wind farm is a lot of wind and a not particularly deep stretch of water. The North Sea has both, so much so that more or less all of the planet’s offshore wind farms are located there.[read more]

Scotland offshore wind

This week, the government of Scotland decided to go ahead with a large scale offshore wind farm in Aberdeen, in spite of personal and business motivated pleas from Donald Trump.[read more]

nuclear energy in the UK

The UK government has just given planning approval for the first new nuclear power plant in almost 20 years, and someone wanted to know how many windfarms would be needed to generate the same amount of power?[read more]

wind energy emissions

“Wind farms do not reduce emissions.” A commonly used talking point by those opposed to wind farms. The gist of this argument is that wind farms have an average capacity factor of 25%.[read more]

offshore wind energy

Maryland's state legislature has passed Governor O'Malley's signature clean energy initiative to install 200MW of offshore wind capacity and kickstart the state's clean energy industry.[read more]

Offshore wind turbines

At least 200 megawatts of offshore wind energy will soon be built off the shores of Maryland, thanks to new legislation passed this week by the state senate, now on its way to the governor.[read more]

offshore wind energy

The power crunch will come. Offshore wind, responsibly developed and set back far enough from the shore, could be an important part of Ontario’s clean energy mix.[read more]

2012 proved to be a good year for wind power in the 27-nation European Union (EU), as installed wind power generation capacity rose 12.3 percent to surpass the 100-gigawatt (GW) mark.[read more]

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Offshore wind energy is one of the big sources of hope for a successful clean energy turnaround in Germany. The existing wind parks in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea, however, have a performance of only 200 megawatts (MW) altogether - low compared to countries like Great Britain, with a current offshore performance of almost 1600 MW, or Denmark, with 850 MW.[read more]

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As it turns out, one of the most interesting markets for wind developers is going to be the American Southeast, despite appearances.[read more]

For a year now there has been a moratorium on the development of offshore wind projects in the Great Lakes. The Ontario government issued the ban because it said more study was needed to make sure the projects can be developed safety and responsibly, even though such studies were supposedly already done when the previous moratorium was...[read more]

“Financially untenable” is how NRG Energy updates its outlook for what was a planned array of wind turbines offshore Delaware. And with that prognosis, the future of wind energy off the U.S. East Coast is very much in doubt. While the project’s fate may have been cast when the U.S. Department of Energy rejected its application for a...[read more]

Guest post by Andy DawsonOne anti-nuclear argument that’s frequently made is that nuclear is slow to deploy – that renewables can make inroads into carbon production rather faster than can building new nuclear stations. I was recently proiked into taking a look at this, in the context of the UK’s 2020 and 2030 CO2 and Renewables targets...[read more]