Wind

Jumbo Shipping Completes Transport for Hornsea Two Offshore Wind Farm

Friday, 05 November 2021 REM Jumbo has completed the transport and handling of offshore wind turbine foundation components for Ørsted’s Hornsea Two offshore wind farm. Supporting DEME Offshore, Jumbo deployed its K-3000 class heavy ...

Colossal six months for offshore wind investment in first half of 2020

Monday, 13 July 2020 Robin Whitlock Renewable energy capacity investment, particularly offshore wind, showed great resilience in the first half of 2020, in the face of the unprecedented economic shock caused by the coronavirus, according ...

Industrial Scale Renewable Hydrogen Project Advances to Next Phase

Tuesday, 18 February 2020 REM Funding in the amount of £ 7.5 million has been awarded for the next phase of Gigastack, a new renewable hydrogen project, as part of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) ...

Falling costs and tech innovations will drive offshore wind boom says IRENA

Wednesday, 02 November 2016 Robin Whitlock

Offshore wind could grow more than 650 percent by 2030, becoming a key power generation technology, a new report by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) reveals.

UK energy analyst says election results good for shale gas, bad for onshore wind

Friday, 08 May 2015 Robin Whitlock The Conservative Party has won a major victory in one of the most uncertain UK general elections of recent decades causing industry concerns that future energy policies could limit the growth of onshore ...

Europe

EU wind market grows, but slowed by flagging onshore segment

Thursday, 08 March 2012 Toby Price EurObserv’ER has released its latest wind power barometer showing that cumulative wind power capacity in the European Union (EU) at the end of 2011: 94.1 GW, up on the figure of 85.0 GW registered at ...

Pan-European grid could avoid emissions of 170 million tonnes of carbon

Friday, 02 March 2012 REM The European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO-E) has released details of a plan that would bring Europe a step closer to a pan-European grid. According to the network, a ...

Honduras

Largest wind farm in Central America switched on

Friday, 10 February 2012 REM Iberdrola Engineering, in a consortium with Gamesa, has started up the Cerro de Hula wind farm in Honduras, the largest in Central America. This new facility has a capacity of 102 MW and its official opening ...

Europe still on track to hit wind targets?

Monday, 15 November 2010 This will be just one of questions posed at the NG Power and Renewables EU Summit in Budapest (Hungary) next April. With wind power currently meeting around 5% of Europe’s electricity requirements ...

Catalonia plans to build an offshore wind "test site"

Tuesday, 02 November 2010 The Catalan project to build the first Spanish offshore wind farm – for testing and research purposes – is taking shape. The most recent step was the signing on 26 October of an agreement between ...