Danish offshore wind giant and power company Ørsted continues to streamline its business towards a greener future as it announced last week it had sold off the Stigsnæs Power Station and Stigsnæs Transit Harbour near Skælskør in Denmark.
A total of 43 cities — including Barcelona, London, Paris, Cape Town, and Hong Kong — populate a new “A List” ranking cities’ action to cut emissions and set climate strategies published this week by environmental impact non-profit CDP to celebrate the start of EU Green Week.
The growth of onshore wind energy is collapsing in Germany, according to European wind energy trade body WindEurope, and in the process is jeopardising not only the renewable energy targets of Germany but of the whole European Union.
Danish offshore wind energy giant Ørsted entered into a partnership with offshore wind support services company WindServe Marine to construct two purpose-built offshore Crew Transfer Vessels (CTVs), the company’s first such contract in the United States.
Oil and gas are riding high now, but the US offshore wind industry is sucking talent and supply chain interest out of the fossil fuel balloon.
Washington State closed out its 2019 legislative session with some big wins for the climate. The legislature passed a 100% clean electricity standard, new efficiency policies, and regulation of super-pollutants, but there is more to do in coming years.
The cost of commercial and industrial scale solar and wind power is still headed down. Power purchase agreement (PPA) contract prices examined in five independent energy distribution territories in the country showed indexed prices down by $0.39/megawatt-hour, or 2.3% during first quarter of this year compared with the fourth quarter of 2018, according to LevelTen Energy’s latest report in May.
Danish energy group Ørsted published its first quarter earnings on May 1, announcing profits slightly down compared to the same quarter a year earlier, but were reassured by continued increase from its offshore and onshore wind energy assets.
In December 2018, the Union of Concerned Scientists convened a diverse group of stakeholders to discuss the equitable deployment of energy storage. The group—which included environmental justice and grassroots organizations, policy experts, industry, labor, consumer advocates, faith groups, and renewable energy advocates—collectively developed a set of consensus principles for equitable storage deployment.
Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy became the world’s first wind turbine manufacturer to receive an investment grade rating this week, a day before the company announced it had recorded a 7% increase in revenue for its second quarter.
