The global wind energy industry had a record year in 2015, with 62 GW installed, led by China which installed just under 29 GW. Three separate reports investigating wind development through 2015 have all arrived this week, thanks to Bloomberg New Energy Finance, the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), and … [continued]
Check ’em out: Vice President Biden – Give Oil Industry’s Tax Credits to Clean Energy Vice President Joe Biden says the oil industry no longer needs the $5 billion in annual tax credits that the government has doled out for years. Instead, he recommended applying half of those credits to … [continued]
Wind power could meet a quarter of all of Europe’s electricity demand by 2030 if constituent members deliver on their climate and energy pledges. These are the primary findings from the latest forecasts made by the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), published Wednesday. Specifically, according to the Central Scenario published in EWEA’s Wind … [continued]
Europe’s offshore wind industry has shattered previous installation records in the first half of 2015, installing 2,342.9 megawatts (MW) of electricity generation capacity, triple the same time last year. The European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) revealed Thursday that installations for the first half of 2015 had reached 2,342.9 MW, tripling … [continued]
A new study published today by Ernst & Young has found that the European offshore wind market can compete with traditional gas and coal markets, if it sheds 26% of outlays by 2023, in an effort to reach cost-competitiveness. Courtesy of the European Wind Energy Association, the European offshore wind … [continued]
The European Wind Energy Agency has released figures for 2014, showing that the European wind industry connected almost 12 GW to the grid, compared to coal and gas, which only managed to connect 3,305 MW and 2,338 MW respectively. The news gets better as well, when you consider that the … [continued]
European policy makers and leaders must “tear down” member-state barriers if the European Union is ever to transition into creating the longed-for “Energy Union” — “a fully functioning internal energy market delivering power and heating at favourable prices to citizens and private businesses across the continent.” These are the conclusions … [continued]
A report released by the European Commission on Monday in Brussels highlighted the relative cost of onshore wind versus fossil fuel technologies like coal and gas, proving it to be the cheaper form of electricity generation in the region “when externalities are stacked with the levelised cost of energy and … [continued]
The European Wind Energy Association havs released a report investigating the European offshore wind industry for the first half of 2014, and found that there are currently 16 commercial offshore wind farms totalling 4.9 GW currently under construction, boosting European offshore wind capacity. Furthermore, a total of 224 new offshore wind … [continued]
One of our readers recently passed along a couple of very interesting charts about nuclear energy as well as the nuclear energy report from which they came. The report, World Nuclear Report 2013, is well worth a more careful look, but for those who just love some interesting charts, here … [continued]
