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Ukraine’s biggest private energy company, DTEK, has launched the first stage of a 500-megawatt wind power plant in a boost to the country's energy sector following Russian air strikes.

China’s electricity generation grew in line with the long-term average during the first four months of the year as the economy recovered from the end of COVID-19 lockdowns and the exit wave of the pandemic.

Ireland awarded contracts to four offshore wind projects with the potential to produce 3.1 gigawatts of capacity in its first ever offshore wind power auction, the government announced on Thursday.

In the port city of Taichung on Taiwan's west coast, a crane hoists into place the end section of a white wind turbine tower that stands almost a hundred metres tall.

Britain’s wind farms generated more electricity in the first quarter of 2023 than gas for the first time, a report from Imperial College London showed on Wednesday.

After nearly a century, oil output in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico is heading towards its peak with new platforms providing a last hurrah as the region becomes a hot spot for burying greenhouse gases.

Supply chain issues, inflation and higher interest rates, as well as regulatory intervention could hamper offshore wind development, the head of Swedish utility Vattenfall said on Thursday.

Swedish utility Vattenfall on Thursday reported a largely unchanged underlying operating profit for the first quarter, supported by its heating and energy trading arms, offsetting lower contributions from its wind business.

Europe's offshore renewable energy industry is not big enough to deliver governments' goals to rapidly expand green power, and requires a jump in policy support and funding to get on track, European companies from the sector said on Monday.

Floating wind is viewed as the final frontier for offshore wind as turbines can be installed in deeper waters than fixed-bottom foundations, harnessing stronger and more continuous wind to generate more power.