Renewable energy is truly getting cheaper every day. The 800-megawatt wind farm Vineyard Wind project, the first large-scale offshore wind farm in the U.S., has offered a total levelized price of $65 per megawatt-hour (MWh)—a record low. The planned wind farm, located 15 mies south of Martha’s Vineyard, will be jointly developed by Avangrid Inc. […]
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 […]
2017 was a banner year for European offshore wind after installing a record 3.1 gigawatts of new capacity, twice the capacity installed in 2016, according to a new report from WindEurope, an industry association. European offshore wind capacity grew 25 percent in just one year to total 15.8 gigawatts, which WindEurope CEO Giles Dickson called […]
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 […]
By Kit Kennedy and Miles Farmer In an advance State of the State proposal released Tuesday, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo committed to “propose a comprehensive and far reaching energy efficiency initiative by Earth Day, April 22,” including a new 2025 energy efficiency savings target. The governor’s commitment is an important first step to transforming […]
The Netherlands has launched the world’s first “zero subsidy” tender on Friday to build 700 megawatts of offshore wind. Shortly after the announcement, the country already found its first bidder. Zero subsidy tenders have been labeled as a “game-changer” for the sector because it means that potential bidders would rely solely on wholesale electricity prices […]
Scotland has officially switched on the Hywind Scotland, the world’s first floating wind farm. “Hywind will provide clean energy to over twenty thousand homes and will help us meet our ambitious climate change targets,” First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said. The 30 megawatt wind farm, operated by Norwegian oil company Statoil ASA and Masdar Abu Dhabi […]
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