The U.S. government just smashed its own records when an auction on Friday to lease thousands of acres off the Massachusetts coast for offshore wind development brought in a whopping $405.1 million, signaling that this particular renewable energy sector is finally taking off at high speeds, Utility Drive reported. If fully developed, the leased area […]
A revolutionary battery has been successfully installed at the Hywind Scotland, the world’s first floating offshore wind farm located about 15 miles off the Aberdeenshire coast. With the 1.2-megawatt storage system known as “Batwind” in operation, it will be possible for the first time to store energy produced from an offshore wind farm, developers Masdar […]
By Jonathan Buonocore New plans to build two commercial offshore wind farms near the Massachusetts and Rhode Island coasts have sparked a lot of discussion about the vast potential of this previously untapped source of electricity. But as an environmental health and climate researcher, I’m intrigued by how this gust of offshore wind power may […]
The world’s most powerful wind turbines have been successfully installed at the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC) off Aberdeen Bay in Scotland’s North Sea. The final turbine was installed on Saturday just nine weeks after the first foundation for the 11-turbine offshore wind farm was deployed, according to the developers Vattenfall. Incidentally, the project […]
The world’s most powerful wind turbine was successfully installed Monday off the coast of Aberdeen, Scotland. This is just the first of 11 turbines that will stand at Vattenfall’s future European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC), Scotland’s largest offshore wind test and demonstration facility. Incidentally, the project was at the center of a contentious legal […]
GE Renewable Energy has unveiled plans to develop the world’s largest and most powerful offshore wind turbine. Each 12-megawatt Haliade-X stands 853 feet tall, or roughly five times the height of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, and features 350-foot blades, or the length of a Major League Soccer field. One turbine can generate 67 […]
The world’s first floating wind farm only switched on three months ago but it’s already performing better than expected—and that’s despite a hurricane, a powerful winter storm and waves as high as 8.2 meters (27 feet). The 30-megawatt Hywind Scotland, located about 15 miles off the Aberdeenshire coast, churned out 65 percent of its maximum […]
Offshore construction has kicked off at what will become the world’s largest offshore wind farm, the Hornsea Project One. The first of 174 monopiles, or foundations for offshore wind turbines, has been installed at the site, located off the Yorkshire coast in the United Kingdom. The project, developed by Danish energy giant Ørsted (formerly called […]
Politicians from coastal states around the country continue to call for their states to be exempt from the Trump administration’s proposed expansion of offshore drilling following its politically-tinged decision last week to remove Florida from the plan. The Interior Department said last week that Secretary Ryan Zinke had spoken with seven coastal governors opposed to […]
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