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Franco-Scottish Research to Drive Floating Wind and Hydrogen in Europe

The European Marine Energy Centre and partners have delivered a report outlining a series of recommendations for the Scottish Government to facilitate research collaborations between Scottish and French organisations working in floating wind and hydrogen.

27 Jul 2021

Stopping Wind Energy Expansion in Beautiful Landscapes may Increase Power Generation Costs

Wind energy is of outstanding importance to the energy transition in Germany. According to the Federal Statistical Office, its share in total gross electricity production of about 24% is far higher than those of all other renewable energy sources.

21 Jul 2021

NextGen Consortium Targets ScotWind Success

A group of leading offshore wind companies and funds have today announced their joint participation in Crown Estate Scotland’s ScotWind leasing process.

21 Jul 2021

El Salvador’s First Wind Project Reaches Successful Commercial Operation

Tracia Network Corporation has successfully commissioned the Ventus Wind Project, El Salvador’s first wind farm, with the support of ArcVera Renewables' technically advanced services applied from prospecting through development and financing.

14 Jul 2021

Ocean Winds and Aker Offshore Wind Announce Partnership for Floating Offshore Wind Energy in Scotland

Two of the world’s leading offshore wind energy companies have today announced their establishment of a partnership to develop floating offshore wind generation sites in Scotland.

9 Jul 2021

Researchers Develop Machine Learning Model to Better Predict Offshore Wind Power

Rutgers researchers have developed a machine learning model using a physics-based simulator and real-world meteorological data to better predict offshore wind power.

1 Jul 2021

Steering Wind Turbines to Extract More Power

As wind passes through a turbine, it creates a wake that decreases the downstream average wind velocity.

30 Jun 2021

Building Better Wind Farms for Maximum Power Generation

Location, location, location--when it comes to the placement of wind turbines, the old real estate adage applies, according to new research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Carnegie's Enrico Antonini and Ken Caldeira.

29 Jun 2021

Earth Wind & Power: Excess Energy from Wind, Solar and Gas will be Utilized for HPC and Datacenters

With this new practice EWP creates a long-awaited sustainable bridge between the excess power in the energy industry and the power deficiency in the High Performance Computing datacenter industry while maintaining strong ESG-standards.

From Earth Wind & Power 16 Jun 2021

CSIRO Report Confirms Renewables Still Cheapest New-Build Power in Australia

Solar photovoltaics (PV) and wind continue to be the cheapest sources of new electricity generation capacity in Australia, even when the integration costs of renewables are included, according to the final 2020-21 GenCost Report, released today.

8 Jun 2021