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RCG: 2020 Offshore Wind Sets Capacity, Investment Records

Global capacity and investment for offshore wind set records in 2020, according to research from The Renewables Consulting Group (RCG), a specialized services firm...

Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy, CrossWind Ink Turbine Supply Contract

Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy and CrossWind have executed a contract to deliver the turbines for the 759 MW Hollandse Kust Noord offshore wind park.  The...

BASF Looks to Power Texas Operations with Wind Power PPAs

BASF, a German multinational chemical company and the largest chemical producer in the world, says it is collaborating with EDF Energy North America to...

Group Launches Virtual Training Courses to Aid Offshore Expansion

The Business Network for Offshore Wind (BNOW), a non-profit focused on developing offshore wind renewable energy in the U.S., has launched a virtual training...

Vestas Unveils 15 MW Offshore Wind Turbine

Vestas has introduced its V236-15.0 MW offshore wind turbine.  Vestas says the machine will harness the optimum design synergies from existing turbine platforms, such as...

Orsted, PGE Partner on Baltic Sea Offshore Wind Projects

Ørsted and PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna S.A. (PGE) have signed an agreement to form a 50/50 joint venture for the development, construction and operation...

Ingeteam Inks Framework Contracts, Secures Equipment Sales into 2022

Ingeteam Wind Energy, a global company that specializes in wind energy drivetrain technology, has successfully secured framework contracts with key clients for the serial...

Masdar Acquires 815 MW Portfolio of Utility-Scale Wind Projects

Masdar, a global renewable energy company, has achieved the first closing on the acquisition of 50% of a 1.6 GW clean energy portfolio of...

Europe Touts Record-Breaking 2020 Offshore Wind Investment

Despite COVID constraints, Europe achieved a record amount of €26.3 billion of investments in new offshore wind farms in 2020, according to the latest...

The GREEN Act Introduced into House of Representatives

Chairman of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures Mike Thompson, D-Calif., and the entire Democratic membership of the committee have...

Iberdrola Acquires Majority Stake in 3 GW of Irish Offshore Wind

Iberdrola has agreed to acquire a majority stake in three DP Energy offshore wind projects on the east, west and south coasts of Ireland. The...

U.S. Wind Industry Shatters Records, Touts Strongest Year Ever

The U.S. wind industry had its strongest year ever as the amount of new wind power capacity increased by 85% over 2019 - the...

BOEM Resumes Environmental Review of Vineyard Wind Project

In support of the Biden administration’s goal to address climate change and promote offshore renewable energy production, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM)...

evoblade Increases Turbine Output with Retrofittable Spoiler

evoblade, a wind energy startup and spin-off of the Institute of Aerospace Technology (IAT) of the University of Applied Sciences Bremen, has developed a...

Ares Acquires Lincoln Land Wind Project from Apex

Apex Clean Energy, a company that develops, constructs and operates utility-scale wind facilities across North America, and Ares Management Corp., an alternative investment manager,...

Enel Green Power Touts Record-Breaking Renewable Capacity

Enel Green Power (EGP), a global company that specializes in the development and operation of renewables, set a record in 2020 by building 3,106...

NIPSCO Brings Rosewater, Jordan Creek Wind Projects Online

Northern Indiana Public Service Co. LLC (NIPSCO) says its first two Indiana-based wind projects - Rosewater Wind and Jordan Creek Wind - are online...

DOE Funds UMaine 3D Printing Research for Wind Blade Molds

The University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center has been awarded $2.8 million from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency...

Biden Aims to Double U.S. Offshore Wind Capacity in Next Decade

U.S. President Joe Biden has signed an executive order that includes doubling offshore wind power generation in U.S. federal waters by 2030. The order also...

IndentiFlight Detection Technology Reduces Avian Fatalities from Wind Turbines

IdentiFlight, a company that delivers and operates machine vision and AI technology for avian species detection, says bird fatalities in wind farms are greatly...

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