Masdar and Statoil have announced a collaborative agreement to study and explore the potential for battery storage by analyzing data from their joint offshore wind and battery storage project at Hywind Scotland, known as Batwind.
Statoil has chosen Younicos to supply a 1 MW smart battery to complement the Hywind Scotland floating offshore wind farm installation.
Experts claim the potential for wind power off the coasts of America is as much as one terawatt — 13 times the total from land-based wind farms in the US at present. California and Delaware are exploring the construction of wind farms off the coast of both states.
Co-developers Statoil, Masdar, and Statkraft this week officially opened the 402 MW Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm off the coast of Norfolk in eastern England, after construction costs fell by 15% since the original investment decision.
While a rapid, wholesale move away from fossil fuel dependence would be required if extreme anthropogenic climate warming and instability was to be avoided to any real degree, that fact truly doesn’t seem to have sunk in for many of those in the world now. The strategy being taken by most people seems to amount to pretending that there’s nothing wrong, and hoping that they will be dead before severe impacts begin hitting the “developed” world.
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).
The Environmental Defense Fund is using a collaborative approach to find ways of working with industry partners to find and fix methane leaks that waste up to 10 million tons of methane each year in the US alone.
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The floating offshore wind industry is having a breakthrough moment with Scotland in the lead, France coming on strong, and the US…well, um…
While Norway has something of a reputation internationally as being “progressive” and “green,” the country’s well fed economy and society is largely the result of a highly productive fossil fuel extraction industry.
