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Province Sets a Target to Offer Leases for Offshore Wind Development

The Province has set a target to offer leases for five gigawatts of offshore wind energy by 2030 to support its budding green hydrogen industry.

21 Sep 2022

Sulzer Schmid Completes Massive European Rotor Blade Inspection Campaign for Vestas

Sulzer Schmid, a Swiss company pioneering UAV technology for wind rotor blade inspections, announced today that it has completed its fourth successive European inspection campaign for Vestas, covering 4,000 wind turbines in seven countries across Northern and Central Europe.

From Sulzer & Schmid Laboratories AG 21 Sep 2022

CGG Joins UK Consortium Project Assessing Ecosystem Impact of Offshore Windfarms

CGG is acting as a special technical partner in an innovative consortium research project led by Bangor University to identify opportunities that benefit biodiversity and the conservation of species around offshore windfarms whilst also supporting windfarm developers to design long-term environmental monitoring strategies.

From Viridien 15 Sep 2022

Robust and Realistic Method for Dealing with Wind-Driven Phenomena

To extract an underlying model of how specific parameters behave and are correlated both spatially and temporally in the real world, geostatistical analyses involve the statistical processing of very large datasets, like measurements of wind speed over time and at various altitudes and locations.

7 Sep 2022

Fugro Supports Italy’s Energy Transition with Renexia Survey for Med Wind Floating Wind Farm

Renexia, part of TOTO Holding, has awarded Fugro a survey contract for the Med Wind floating wind farm in the Strait of Sicily, one of the biggest renewable energy projects planned for the Mediterranean Sea, with 190 floating turbines for an installed capacity of 2.8 GW.

From Fugro 2 Sep 2022

New Report Finds Value of Wind Energy Far Exceeds Costs

Wind energy continues to see strong growth, solid performance, and attractive prices in the U.S., according to a report released by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and prepared by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).

17 Aug 2022

Optimizing the Energy Output of Wind Farms

Researchers at MIT investigate if there is a way to optimize the energy output of wind farms and generate more power, without the need for any extra investment in turbine hardware.

15 Aug 2022

Octopus Energy and Nest Form Joint Venture with GLIL to Invest £400m in World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm

Octopus Energy Group’s generation business, one of Europe’s largest investors in renewable energy, has worked with Nest to take a stake in the Hornsea One Wind Farm, the world’s largest operational offshore wind farm, making a positive impact with UK pension savers’ money.

3 Aug 2022

WEG to Launch 7MW Wind Turbine

Global industrial equipment manufacturer, WEG has announced it will launch a new 7 MW wind turbine, provides greater power and efficiency for wind generation projects.

From WEG S.A. 14 Jul 2022

Study Discloses the Climatology, Variability, and Drivers of Compound Wind and Precipitation Extremes Across the Indo-Pacific

The so-called compound wind and precipitation extremes (CWPEs) are caused as a result of co-occurrences of wind extremes and precipitation extremes and they could interrupt and threaten shipping and shipment logistics.

5 Jul 2022