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The wind industry is celebrating the sector passing the landmark figure of one terawatt of global installed capacity. Recently completed wind power projects in China, the USA, Morocco and Europe have pushed the capacity across the 1TW threshold.
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A new service is available for monitoring the energy weather. The Finnish Meteorological Institute’s (FMI) solar and wind power production forecasts convert the sunshine and wind over the following few days into kilowatt-hours.
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Jonathan Cole has been named the new chairman of the Global Wind Energy Council. Previously, Jonathan was head of Iberdrola’s offshore wind business and now holds the position of CEO at Corio Generation, the offshore wind developer created by Macquarie Asset Management’s Green Investment Group.
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The first tests forming part of collaborative research to support offshore wind to expand in a sustainable way have been completed by Bangor University and HR Wallingford.- Category: Industry News
IIASA researchers are participating in a new Horizon Europe project that will develop innovative tools to facilitate citizens and stakeholders’ interaction, in particular around knowledge sharing, collaborative evaluation of impacts, mitigation of controversies, and social innovation potential of new onshore and offshore wind power deployments.
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In an offshore wind cost inflation survey of industry players by Westwood Global Energy Group (Westwood), nearly three quarters of respondents indicated that they had begun to review the viability of their projects in light of recent cost increases, with over 90% indicating that decision making had slowed as a result. The survey and market analysis explores the impact of inflation on global offshore wind development.- Denmark adopts new marine plan and ends current open door scheme for new projects
- Metsähallitus launches tendering processes for 3GW of new offshore wind in Finland
- UK’s ESO has announced actions to speed up electricity grid connections
- Global wind turbine order intake increases 27% YOY
- Positive mood prevails in the German wind industry while Asia and North America see an upturn
- American Clean Power drafts entry level training guide with GWO
- Global investment in clean energy is on course to rise to USD 1.7 trillion in 2023
- Offshore wind sector allocates £4 million to UK companies
- New York awards $4 million in grants for offshore wind training and workforce development
- Germany presented strategy for onshore wind energy expansion
- Over 25GW of new clean power Installed in the USA in 2022
- TetraSpar Innovation Challenge launched
- Renewables were almost two thirds of new US generating capacity in Q1 of 2023
- California releases new report detailing options for permitting offshore wind projects
- Masdar and IRENA to collaborate on setting a roadmap to triple global renewable energy capacity by 2030
- Ireland announces provisional results of first offshore wind auction
- USA invests $26 million to support a modern, reliable, and resilient American clean energy grid
- US offshore wind market expands with 51,377MW projected capacity
- Massachusetts targets 3.6GW in its fourth offshore wind solicitation
- Poland targets 18GW of offshore wind with additional tenders starting in 2025
- ACP urges modernisation of offshore wind regulations
- The Poul La Cour Award 2023 goes to Peter Hauge Madsen
- BOEM advances offshore wind leasing process in the Gulf of Maine
- DNV launches new joint industry project to tackle earthquake challenges for wind farms
- Blade manufacturers announce joint commitment to support recycling by providing material passports
- EU leaders meet in Ostend to agree build-out of offshore wind in the North Seas
- ClassNK releases second edition of Guidelines for Wind-Assisted Propulsion Systems for Ships
- $150 billion in announced capital investment for the clean energy industry in the USA
- Revised EU Renewables Directive set to speed up wind permitting
- Global wind energy to top 1TW threshold by the end of 2023
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