The world’s longest subsea power cable is now complete
Testing and installation of the world’s longest onshore and subsea power cable, which connects Denmark and the UK, is complete.
Expand Expanding CloseTesting and installation of the world’s longest onshore and subsea power cable, which connects Denmark and the UK, is complete.
Expand Expanding CloseGlobal wind turbine order intake reached new highs in the first half of 2023 with 69.5 gigawatts (GW) of activity, a 12% increase year-over-year, according to new analysis from Wood Mackenzie.
Expand Expanding CloseIn a sign of things to come, the global offshore wind industry brought 8.8 GW of clean energy online in 2022, its second-best year ever, according to the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC).
Expand Expanding CloseHywind Tampen, the world’s largest floating offshore wind farm, was inaugurated today by global power giant Equinor and its partners.
Expand Expanding CloseThe US Department of the Interior (DOI) today announced its approval of Rhode Island and Connecticut’s Revolution Wind offshore wind farm.
Expand Expanding CloseDespite scientists’ urgent pleas to address climate change, some Americans don’t see it as a priority, and others say it’s not real.
Expand Expanding CloseA Saudi Arabian company has installed the largest wind turbine in Central Asia, in the Bukhara region of Uzbekistan.
Expand Expanding CloseUtility-scale solar and wind provided over half of new US generating capacity added in the first half of 2023, according to new Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) data.
Expand Expanding CloseThe US government today designated three new offshore wind areas in the Central Atlantic that could potentially host 4 to 8 gigawatts (GW) of clean energy production.
Expand Expanding CloseIn a much-anticipated move, the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) passed a new rule today that’s finally going to streamline the backed-up US grid interconnection process.
Expand Expanding CloseWind, solar, and nuclear generated up to 55% of total power in Texas in the record-breaking end-of-June heat – keeping the natural gas share below 50%.
Expand Expanding CloseUtility-scale solar and wind are on track to provide 25% of the US’s installed electrical generating capacity within three years, according to newly released FERC data.
Expand Expanding CloseElectrek spoke with Kam Mahdi, CEO of renewable engineering firm Clean Energy Technologies in Costa Mesa, California, about how extreme heat can impact the power grid and renewables, as well as what’s being done to keep them online.
Expand Expanding CloseRapid renewables growth means that by 2030, the global electricity system will be capable of delivering ambitious net-zero pathways, according to new research by RMI, in partnership with the Bezos Earth Fund.
Expand Expanding CloseTexas solar and wind are going to double by 2035, but if the state’s grid isn’t upgraded, then all that power is going to go to waste, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA).
Expand Expanding CloseLabor union members at New York’s Ravenswood Generating Station will become the US’s first fossil fuel power plant workers to transition to operating offshore wind equipment.
Expand Expanding CloseThe first monopile for Ocean Wind 1, New Jersey’s first offshore wind farm, has been built at a New Jersey manufacturing facility – and Cape May County isn’t happy about any of it.
Expand Expanding CloseA Swiss startup is using reclaimed wind turbine blades instead of metal beams as horizontal supports for solar panels.
Expand Expanding CloseA 16-megawatt (MW) wind turbine – the world’s largest – is now in place off the southeastern coast of China.
Expand Expanding CloseSiemens Gamesa reviewed its wind turbine fleet’s failure rates and discovered that it has much bigger problems than it thought – and that they could take years to fix.
Expand Expanding CloseSouth Fork Wind, New York State’s first offshore wind farm, has achieved its “steel in the water” milestone with the installation of the project’s first monopile foundation.
Expand Expanding CloseThe TransWest Express, a landmark transmission project that will carry clean energy from North America’s largest wind farm in Wyoming to the US Southwest, has broken ground.
Expand Expanding CloseAfter a 40-year effort, global installed wind power capacity reached 1 terawatt (TW) this month – but 2 TW will likely be achieved in less than seven years.
Expand Expanding CloseFor the first time in US history, US-made wind and solar components are now cheaper than imports, according to a new study.
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