U.S. oil major Chevron, together with Norwegian company Moreld Ocean Wind, is set to invest in offshore wind technology at Ocergy, a U.S. company developing a low-cost floating wind foundation and a multi-disciplinary environmental monitoring buoy. Ocergy secured the investments through its Series A equity fundraising round to accelerate the …
Read More »China Installed a Record-Breaking 52GW of Wind Power in 2020
China installed 52 gigawatts (GW) of wind power capacity last year, breaking the world record for most wind capacity installed in a single year by any country in history as it doubled its annual installations compared to 2019, the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) said in a new report this …
Read More »Wind Power Production in Norway Increased Sharply Last Year
Wind power production increased sharply in 2020 due to more wind than usual and more completed wind farms. In total, Norway produced 9.9 terawatt-hours (TWh) in 2020. That is 4.4 terawatt-hours more than in 2019, according to figures from the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate. A total of 15 …
Read More »Greece Prepares for Offshore Wind Farm Investments
The institutional framework for offshore wind farms and energy storage will be ready by June 2021, Environment and Energy Minister Kostas Skrekas told the Blue Economy Forum, titled “The Way to a Green Recovery,” on Tuesday. He said it would include issues of licensing, installations and connections to the power …
Read More »Siemens Gamesa Cements Its Position in French Offshore Wind Industry
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 …
Read More »Spain Boosts Wind Capacity by 1.7GW in 2020
Wind power produced 21.9% of the country’s electricity consumed last year.
Read More »Wind Revolution Gains Momentum as Oil Industry Declines
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 …
Read More »Oil Majors are Driving aWind Energy Revolution
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 …
Read More »North Sea Wind Farm to Mostly Supply Amazon with Wind Energy
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 …
Read More »US Wind Output Hits New Heights in December
EIA estimates that wind accounted for 9% of US electricity generation in 2020.
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