Wind Energy

Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy has been awarded a firm order from the EDF Renewables/Enbridge/wpd consortium for the 448MW Courseulles-sur-Mer offshore wind power project. Located 10km off the Bessin coast, the project brings the total capacity awarded to Siemens Gamesa by the consortium in France to approximaely 1GW. Both the wind …

Wind power produced 21.9% of the country’s electricity consumed last year.

Oil demand may never recover from the blow dealt to it by Covid-19, according to BP’s 2020 Energy Outlook. In two of the report’s three modelled scenarios, ambitious climate policies mean that global oil consumption already peaked at 100m barrels per day in 2019. Even under a “business-as-usual” case, demand …

Thanks to zero-carbon promises, wind farms are expected to overtake the number of oil rigs in British waters by 2030. Oil majors are diversifying their energy production to evolve with the times. Both BP and Total have highlighted strategies for wind energy production in the U.K., with BP investing £924 …

Over 50 percent of the energy generated by a 759 megawatt windfarm under development 18.5 kilometers west of the coastal town of Egmond aan Zee will be used by Amazon. Shell and Eneco are constructing the wind farm in the Hollandse Kust (noord) development area with a target of being …

EIA estimates that wind accounted for 9% of US electricity generation in 2020.

Plans to build the world’s first energy island which would provide power for three million households have been given the green light by Denmark’s politicians. The giant artificial island, to be built in the North Sea, will be as big as 18 football pitches (120,000 square metres) but could end …

Norway’s Minister of Petroleum and Energy, Tina Bru, has announced an investment of $13.73 million in a new windpower research centre. The NorthWind research centre will work on innovations to make wind power cheaper, more efficient, and more sustainable. One of the centre’s main priorities will be offshore wind research. …

A plan to build a 150-metre tall wind turbine in Avonmouth, near Bristol, that will be able to generate enough electricity to power around 4,000 homes each year has been given the green light. Bristol City Council granted the application by Ambition Community Energy (ACE), a community interest company set …

They will have a total installed capacity of 102.5MW and generate enough electricity to power more than 60,000 households at peak times.