Wind

Excluding wind turbines from Britain’s top beauty spots would result in 18% less onshore wind potential, study finds

Wednesday, 09 June 2021 Robin Whitlock Data drawn from the Scenic-or-Not website, hosted by the Data Science Lab at Warwick Business School, has been used by scientists to calculate that excluding wind turbines from the top 10 per cent of Great ...

Ireland

EDF Renewables Ireland announces plans for 100 MW Mayo wind farm

Monday, 31 May 2021 Robin Whitlock

EDF Renewables Ireland has announced plans to develop a 100 MW wind farm to the south of Bellacorick in Mayo which could consist of up to 25 turbines and power more than 60,000 homes.

Vertical Turbines Could be the Future for Wind Farms

Thursday, 13 May 2021 REM New research from Oxford Brookes University has found that the vertical turbine design is far more efficient than traditional turbines in large scale wind farms, and when set in pairs the vertical turbines ...

Biden Administration Approves Nation’s First Major Offshore Wind Farm

Tuesday, 11 May 2021 Dan McCue Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland and Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo today announced approval of the construction and operation of the Vineyard Wind project — the first large-scale, offshore ...

Predictions for Wind Energy Costs Drop Significantly

Monday, 19 April 2021 REM Technology and commercial advancements are expected to continue to drive down the cost of wind energy, according to a survey led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) of the world’s ...

Ørsted and NOAA Sign Industry First Data Sharing Agreement

Thursday, 08 April 2021 REM Ørsted has announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with NOAA to share physical and biological information and data in Ørsted-leased waters subject to U.S. jurisdiction. The agreement ...

Vineyard Wind Receives Final Environmental Impact Statement from BOEM

Monday, 08 March 2021 Dan McCue The United States offshore wind industry took a monumental step forward following today's announcement from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management on the final environmental impact statement for the Vineyard ...

Triton Knoll Offshore Wind Farm Generates First Power

Tuesday, 02 March 2021 REM The Triton Knoll Offshore Wind Farm has successfully generated renewable electricity for the first time. First generation follows the installation of the first of the project’s 90 wind turbines in January ...

Meridian Energy to Build $395 Million Wind Farm in New Zealand

Wednesday, 24 February 2021 REM New Zealand’s Meridian Energy will soon begin construction of a new $395 million wind farm in Hawke’s Bay, boosting New Zealand’s ability to take action on climate change and accelerating the transformation ...

ERCOT finds that frozen wind turbines were the least significant factor in Texas blackouts

Wednesday, 17 February 2021 Robin Whitlock The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) has released data showing that the vast majority of power plant outages in Texas were gas-fired generators. As multiple experts have documented, the ...