Wind

Extensions and repowering onshore wind are key to supporting UK net zero target

Wednesday, 26 August 2020 Robin Whitlock Repowering and extensions of existing onshore wind sites in the UK have yet to receive the same attention from policymakers as new build according to research from Cornwall Insight. However, without repowering ...

NREL Floats New Offshore Wind Cost Optimization Vision

Wednesday, 12 August 2020 REM The United States’ most plentiful offshore wind resource is found in waters so deep that floating platforms are needed to support the turbines—posing major challenges for offshore wind to deliver electricity ...

Facebook to Purchase Power from Apex’s 300 MW Lincoln Land Wind Project

Friday, 07 August 2020 REM Apex Clean Energy’s Lincoln Land Wind has executed a power purchase agreement with Facebook for approximately 170 MW of renewable power from the Illinois project. With this latest in a series of transactions, ...

National grid’s FES hydrogen focus could boost offshore wind deployment

Wednesday, 05 August 2020 Robin Whitlock Findings by Cornwall Insight, following evaluation of National grid’s Future Energy Scenarios (FES), published 27 July, in which hydrogen plays a pivotal role in three out of the four of its net zero ...

GE Selected To Supply Cypress Wind Turbines for Murra Warra II Wind Farm

Tuesday, 04 August 2020 REM

GE Renewable Energy has signed contracts for the construction and long-term operation of the 209 MW Murra Warra II wind farm in Victoria, Australia.

AWEA urges approval of Vineyard Wind offshore wind project

Wednesday, 29 July 2020 Robin Whitlock The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) has urged the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) to move towards “timely approval” of the milestone Vineyard Wind offshore wind project, following ...

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 ...

Ørsted and TSMC Sign Huge Corporate PPA

Friday, 10 July 2020 REM Ørsted and Taiwan-based TSMC have signed a corporate power purchase agreement stating TSMC will offtake the full production from Ørsted’s 920MW Greater Changhua 2b & 4 offshore wind farm, making ...

Ingeteam’s Advanced Simulation Models Ease Wind Power grid Integration

Monday, 06 July 2020 REM Ingeteam, a global technology group specializing in electric power conversion, presented its advanced simulation models developed to address the complex grid stability and connectivity issues that come ...

Vestas wins new orders for wind turbines in the US, Canada, France, The Netherlands, Italy, Japan and Vietnam

Wednesday, 01 July 2020 Robin Whitlock

Wind turbine manufacturer Vestas has received orders for the V150, V136, V100 and V117 wind turbines consisting of 12 new wind farm projects and one repowering project.