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RPT-ANALYSIS-High stakes at sea in global rush for wind power Reuters 4 days ago (Repeating without changes for wider distribution) Popular Searches By Susanna Twidale and Nora Buli LONDON, April 7 (Reuters) - Global competition for offshore wind power is so hot that license auctions now resemble the oil and gas competitions of just a few years ago, and some of the names are familiar too as global oil majors move aggressively into renewable energy. The drive among top fossil fuel producers to make fast inroads into lower-carbon businesses comes as more and more countries roll out plans to b...

Argentina Is Torn Between Its Shale Dream and Climate Goals Mar 11 2021, 7:49 PM March 10 2021, 3:30 PM March 11 2021, 7:49 PM (Bloomberg) -- President Alberto Fernandez took to a makeshift stage in Argentina’s Vaca Muerta shale deposit in October to announce the nation was doubling down on fossil fuels. “Today we are relaunching the oil and gas economy,” he declared, starting with $5 billion of government subsidies. (Bloomberg) -- President Alberto Fernandez took to a makeshift stage in Argentina’s Vaca Muerta shale deposit in October to announce the nation was doublin...

Photo Credit: GWEC According to Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC, Brussel, Belgium), 2020 was the best year in history for the global wind industry with 93 gigiwatts (GW) of new capacity installed — a 53% year-on-year increase — and the second best year for offshore wind, but a new report published on March 25 warns that this growth is not sufficient to ensure the world achieves net zero by 2050. According to the recently released Global Wind Report 2021, GWEC’s 16 th annual flagship report, the world needs to be installing wind power three times faster over the next decade in or...

Vaca Muerta is probably Argentina's quickest path to the export dollars it desperately needs to secure a brighter future.

BRUSSELS, Belgium, Feb. 11 -- The Global Wind Energy Council issued the following news release on Feb. 10, 2021:The Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) announced today that Rebecca Williams, Head of Policy and Regulation at RenewableUK, will join GWEC on secondment from April to November 2021 as Director of COP26 to coordinate the global wind industry association's work around