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Cerulean Winds proposes a floating wind turbine plan that will bring the natural gas industry to its knees, eventually.
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World’s Largest Floating Wind Turbine Launching Soon In Portugal
20 kilometers off the coast of Viana do Castello, Portugal, is about to be the new home to the largest floating wind turbine in the world, an 8.4-megawatt (MW) ABS-classed offshore wind turbine. This is continental Europe’s first large-scale floating wind farm. A belief is that this renewable installation is ushering in the Golden Era of wind, especially offshore wind.
Statoil Launches “World’s First” Floating Wind Energy Project, Hywind Scotland — Where Will It Lead?
The Norwegian oil firm Statoil has confirmed its final investment decision to develop what will be the “world’s first” floating wind energy project — the Hywind wind farm pilot park offshore Peterhead in Aberdeenshire (Scotland).
Talking To Statoil: The Engineering Of The 30 MW Hywind Scotland
Statoil’s long-awaited Hywind Scotland, the 30 MW floating wind farm at Buchan Deep, 25 km offshore Peterhead in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, is ready to go. With final consents in hand last year, finance was the last hurdle, along with the addition of a small 1 MWh battery. Now, with the final investment decision … [continued]
World’s First Floating Wind Farm Test Site in Mediterranean
In the beautiful blue waters of the Mediterranean Sea, the world’s first test site with multiple floating vertical-axis wind turbines is going to be installed. The offshore wind project is called INFLOW — Industrialized setup of a floating offshore wind turbine — and is funded by the European Commission’s … [continued]
Clean Links: Solar, Wind, Energy Efficiency, Clean Transport, Energy Storage, Geothermal, & Waste-2-Energy News Roundup
Some other top cleantech posts from the past couple weeks or so: Wind Power 1. Vestas published an interesting video on the chemistry of wind turbine blades (above) — interesting. 2. “A consortium led by GICON Grossmann Ingenieur Consult GmbH has developed a floating platform designed to be used for offshore … [continued]
Floating Wind Farm for Malta
The Swedish company Hexicon, which has developed an innovative type of floating wind farm or two, may soon supply Malta with 9% of its electricity needs via one of these floating wind farms. While the EU already has about 20% of its energy coming from renewable energy, the small island nation … [continued]
