Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2023 15:05:34 +0000
Tech is helping to assuage controversies with innovations like floating LiDAR buoys, which can provide data and insights to those pursuing wind development opportunities, and telemetry tracking buoys to monitor information about the whales themselves.
Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2023 18:55:27 +0000
A major collaboration between universities and energy companies has made vital improvements to offshore wind turbines, which could help them generate more renewable energy and reduce the UK’s reliance on fossil fuels. Major collaboration between universities and industry has made vital improvements to offshore wind production Partnership between Universities of Sheffield, Durham, Hull and energy […]
Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2023 15:23:55 +0000
Repowering an existing wind farm is one way to get around the anti-wind movement and keep pumping more clean kilowatts into the grid.
Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2023 20:31:35 +0000
With a war continuing in Europe and an enemy that targets energy infrastructure, it is right to ask questions about energy security. However, it appears odd that reporters would highlight offshore wind farms as a vulnerability. At the recent launch of consultation about the 8 GW offshore wind farms planned for the Newcastle (NSW, Australia) […]
Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2023 17:05:12 +0000
A new offshore floating wind turbine platform takes the wind out of the sails of the anti-ESG movement.
Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2023 01:00:14 +0000
Proposed regulations will streamline and improve processes for offshore wind initiatives
Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2023 19:51:46 +0000
In the republic of Ireland, they are planning to install 7 GW of offshore wind by 2030. The first step, the issuing of Maritime Area Consents (MACs), occurred in December 2022. “Seven new projects, amounting to 2.5GW, will enter the Irish planning system and are expected to take part in ORESS 1, the first round […]
Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2023 19:46:23 +0000
“Rumors of the death of the wind industry are vastly over-exaggerated,” Rethink Energy reports, and it predicts rapid growth for the sector over the next few years. Vestas, Siemens Gamesa, and GE are not doing well on the stock market and have had to re-evaluate their workforce requirements. “The question though is how long will […]
Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2022 04:09:16 +0000
A cursory look at National Electricity Market data shows that Australia is well endowed with solar power. What we lack is large amounts of wind power to displace gas and coal in the evenings. Wind is shown in green, gas in red — very appropriate colours. With a change in the federal government (from the conservative […]
Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2022 12:00:17 +0000
US floating offshore wind industry peels self off wall, aims for 4.5 gigawatts in capacity off California coast.