Page 65 - Offshore Wind News Today

Europe has intensified efforts this year to protect its clean energy manufacturing industries and reduce dependence on China for its renewable energy rollout

Windtech International is the only worldwide magazine with a technological focus for global the wind energy industry.

Federal regulators approved the construction and operation of two offshore wind facilities this week, projects that would power between 700,000 and 1 million New York homes and be built off Long Branch and Long Island. Empire Wind would cover 80,000 acres of Atlantic ocean and power about 1 million New York homes, according to the company's website. Empire Wind is a partnership between Equinor, a Norwegian energy and petroleum company, and BP, the oil and gas company formerly known as Briti...

“It is clear that Ørsted has abandoned the development of Ocean Wind 1 and Ocean Wind 2, but it is also clear that they believe that they can sell their lease and their state and federal permits,” said Donohue. “For Ørsted to break every promise it made to multiple New Jersey communities, to break all the promises it made to trade unions in South Jersey, to break all of its contractual obligations with New Jersey agencies and then believe that ...

There is an economic pitfall in Gov. Cooper’s thinking on green energy | Opinion

There is an economic pitfall in Gov. Cooper’s thinking on green energy | Opinion

A giant Jan De Nul vessel that installed the first GE Haliade-X 13MW turbines at the world’s biggest offshore wind project is already struggling with ballooning future machine scales just a year after being built, said the company’s offshore wind chief as he called for size limits and standardisation.

Off-shore wind developer Avangrid received tentative state approval to land power transmission cables for its Park City Wind project under Craigville Beach, in a Thanksgiving eve decision that has angered some Barnstable residents. "I find it almost unbelievable that the EFSB (Massachusetts Energy Facilities Siting Board) issued this Thanksgiving eve," said Bob Schulte, first vice president of the Centerville Civic Association. "However, I suppose what better way to avoid publicit...

And now there is fierce global debate about whether another factor could be at play in such incidents: offshore wind farms – a controversy that has set the passionately pursued ‘green’ agendas of renewable energy activists and conservationists against one another.  The finger-pointing began in February with a spate of strandings and deaths of baleen whales (the name for humpbacks, fin whales and blue whales) on America’s east coast, which some bla...

Offshore wind projects that want to win a Government contract next year will be allowed to bid up to £73 per megawatt hour (MWh) to supply power, compared with this year’s maximum of £44. The Government said the change was necessary after inflation interrupted the trend where renewable energy had fallen for years.