Originally published by Union of Concerned Scientists, The Equation. By John Rogers Need a little clean energy pick-me-up? Offshore wind is offering more and more excitement as it looks to become a large-scale reality off our shores. Here’s what’s going on in five categories I’m watching. 1. More lease areas coming … [continued]
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Wind Energy Technologies Office (WETO) provides global leadership in fundamental wind energy science research, development, and validation activities that enable low-cost wind energy. The office pursues opportunities across all U.S. wind sectors — land-based utility-scale wind, offshore wind, distributed wind — as well as addressing market barriers and system integration
The 419 MW Mesquite Star wind farm was just completed in Fisher County, Texas, and is now providing electricity for Ecolab, Lowe’s, Intuit, and Brown University. In the case of Intuit (which you may have used to do your taxes this year), the company has now reached its 100% renewable electricity goal. As the headline notes, it has reached that goal 10 years earlier than it had committed.
An economy-wide coalition of UK companies and organisations has called on the country’s new Energy Minister, Kwasi Kwarteng, to support the development of new onshore wind farms in an effort to extricate the technology from its current persona non grata status so as to further boost the country’s efforts to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.
Swedish energy group Vattenfall has won the most recent subsidy-free offshore wind tender in the Netherlands, being awarded this week the right to build the 760 megawatt (MW) Hollandse Kust Zuid (HKZ) 3 & 4 offshore wind farm.
Spanish offshore wind giant Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy announced last month that it had received its first preferred supplier nomination for the Japanese offshore wind industry, being nominated as preferred supplier for the Northern Akita offshore pipeline in Japan which has a capacity of up to 455 megawatts (MW).
Spanish renewable energy giant and offshore wind energy leader Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy has announced this week that it has received a firm order to supply its 8 megawatt (MW) offshore wind turbines to Ørsted’s 900 MW Greater Changhua 1 & 2a Offshore Wind Farm In Taiwan.
A new outlook has concluded that the top 5 wind turbine original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) will account for over two-thirds of the market share by 2020, a market consolidation which will also be reflected in the home-bound Chinese market.
Spanish offshore wind turbine manufacturing giant Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy announced this week that it has been awarded the firm wind turbine supply contract for the 640 megawatt (MW) Yunlin offshore wind power plant in Taiwan.
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.
