DONG Energy has announced it has acquired the Hornsea offshore wind development zone, as well as the project rights to Hornsea Project Two and Three. Earlier this year, the Danish energy giant announced that it had acquired the Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm development from the SMart Wind consortium. … [continued]
Originally published on EIA. In July, American offshore wind developer, Deepwater Wind, installed the first foundation for what is expected to be the first offshore wind farm in the United States. The project will be located three miles southeast of Block Island, Rhode Island. With five turbines totaling 30 megawatts … [continued]
ABB has reached an impressive project milestone this week, by installing the world’s most powerful offshore converter station in the North Sea. The 320 kilovolt converter station is housed on a massive offshore platform, and has a transmission capacity of 916 MW, which makes it the most powerful installation of … [continued]
Siemens announced early August that it will invest €200 million into building its first offshore wind turbine manufacturing facility in Germany. The planned manufacturing facility will be the first for the company in Germany, and will manufacture nacelles for the company’s next-generation 7 MW wind turbines, designed for use out at … [continued]
Two days after Forewind announced planning approval for the latest Dogger Bank Zone offshore wind expansion, it has announced plans to back away from any further expansion. Made up of four big name European energy companies — RWE Innogy UK, SSE, Statkraft, and Statoil — Forewind is the consortium that is … [continued]
Further expansion of the Dogger Bank Zone off the coast of England has been granted planning approval, taking the total consented projects to 4.8 GW. Forewind is the consortium (made up of RWE Innogy UK, SSE, Statkraft, and Statoil) developing the Dogger Bank Zone, which is the largest of the … [continued]
“Accelerating the penetration of renewable energy into the national and global energy portfolio is among the most important technical and social challenges of our time.” So says Andrew Myers, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University, who also studies offshore wind structures and runs Northeastern’s Sustainable Structures … [continued]
Green economy educator, spokesperson, and Ottawa councilman David Chernushenko takes his family and the viewer of Powerful: Energy for Everyone on a journey in this inspiring documentary. The documentary is styled as a lovely collection of vignettes on renewable systems. It examines exchanges with green pioneers, entrepreneurs, scientists, artists, eco-activists, investors, politicians, and … [continued]
Tiny Rhode Island has been leaping wind energy obstacles right and left, and is on its way to getting the nation’s first offshore wind farm off the ground.
The experimental offshore wind energy project to be located outside of Fukushima that was started all the way back in early 2012 has been coming along, according to recent reports. Sponsored by the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry — with help from a consortium featuring Marubeni (project integrator), the … [continued]
