Eurelectric, which represents 3,500 electric companies across Europe, has issued a Vision Declaration promising 100 carbon neutral electricity by the year 2050.
Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy has this week signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Taiwan International Ports Corporation to investigate the possibility of developing an offshore wind manufacturing and deployment site.
Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy last month unveiled two new wind turbines for onshore and offshore wind sites, both of which are intended to pave the way for the company’s new “One Segment/One Technology” philosophy announced early November.
New numbers from the US Energy Information Administration and highlighted by Ken Bossong’s Sun Day Campaign show that renewable electricity production through the first three quarters of 2017 was up 14.7%, while coal, natural gas, oil, and nuclear power all decreased.
New data from USEIA shows emissions from the electricity sector are now lower than those from transportation for the first time in 40 years. Closing coal power plants has been the one factor most responsible for the change.
Danish offshore wind behemoth Ørsted has moved several steps closer to making its 2 gigawatt Taiwanese Changhua offshore wind projects a reality, acquiring environmental approval and securing a subsea cable partner in Taiwanese Woen Jinn Harbour Engineering.
Within the next few months, the Chile-based, state-run firm Codelco will begin selling copper priced so as to take the environmental footprint of production into account, Codelco chairman Oscar Landerretche has revealed.
California might be known the world over as a clean energy leader, but according to information from the US Energy Information Administration and highlighted by Bloomberg New Energy Finance, the award for cleanest state in the country goes to Iowa — and they’ve done it without the aggressive clean energy policies made so famous in California.
Offshore wind farms in the Northeast corner of the United States are under consideration by New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Jersey and Maryland, even though the Cape Wind project is now officially dead.
A new study from analysis firm IHS Markit has found that the aging US wind energy fleet of turbines will drive increased operation & maintenance spending, with the wind industry spending $3 to $4 billion annually and O&M spending exceeding $40 billion between 2015 and 2025.
