The race is on to prevent catastrophic global warming, and if all goes according to plan, the Danish children’s toy maker Lego can pat itself on the back for lending a hand. Denmark also happens to be the home base of the leading wind turbine manufacturer Vestas, which is taking … [continued]
If one floating offshore wind turbine is good, two floating offshore wind turbines could be even better (image courtesy of Hexicon).
All good things are worth waiting for, and the timing is eerily perfect for the Lightning, Ford’s new electric version of the F-150 pickup.
Major milestone will propel America’s drive toward a clean energy future.
The US offshore wind industry awakens from a 20-year slumber as the massive Vineyard Wind 1 project (finally) passes another milestone.
The massive Vineyard Wind project is just one beneficiary of the new “pre-re-powering” craze to hit the US offshore wind industry.
The developers of the Vineyard Wind project off Massachusetts have just announced that they’ll be using GE wind turbines — specifically, the GE Haliade-X. That turbine recently got a capacity upgrade, from a world-leading 12 megawatts (MW) to a world-leading-by-even-more 13 MW.
US offshore wind development company Vineyard Wind announced a new 1,200 megawatt (MW) offshore wind project proposal on Thursday called “Liberty Wind” in response to the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority’s (NYSERDA) solicitation of offshore wind project proposals.
MHI Vestas has been named the preferred supplier for what is likely to be the United States first large-scale offshore wind farm, the 800 megawatt (MW) Vineyard Wind offshore wind farm set to be built off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
The United States’ first large offshore wind farm, the 800 megawatt (MW) Vineyard Wind project, has scored pricing well below analyst expectations, starting at $74 per MW-hour (MWh) for the first phase of the project and an even more impressive $65/MWh for the project’s second phase.
