offshore wind power News
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China Energy Investment & EDF Group ink deal for offshore wind power
Electricite de France Group (EDF Group) and China Energy Investment have reportedly inked a deal to collectively develop an offshore wind power project in eastern Jiangsu province of China. As per trusted sources, the offshore wind power project is the first-of-its-kind having both domestic and foreign investment in China. The project will receive a total investment of 7.94 billion yuan, with ...
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Offshore wind powers ahead in Europe
A building boom is underway offshore in Europe. Up to 400 giant wind turbines are due to be built off the northeast coast of the UK in what will be the world’s largest offshore wind development. Output from the Dogger Bank project will be 1.2 Gigawatts – enough to power more than a million homes. Next year, a 150-turbine wind farm off the coast of the Netherlands is due to start ...
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New York to build 2400 MW of offshore wind by 2030
Just one day after announcing the closure of one of the state’s biggest nuclear power plants, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo put forward a grand plan to build 2.4 gigawatts of offshore wind power by 2030, beginning with a 90 megawatt (MW) project off the coast of Long Island. In one of a series of speeches of his unconventional “State of the State” tour, Gov. Cuomo urged the Long ...
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Vattenfall speeds up delivery of offshore wind power potential
Vattenfall, the owner of the second largest fleet of offshore wind farms in the world, joins the Carbon Trust Offshore Wind Accelerator. Vattenfall has tied up a strategic collaboration with the Carbon Trust's £45m research, development and demonstration programme - Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA), as part of their commitment to help drive down the cost of offshore wind power. Vattenfall, ...
By Carbon Trust
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US Interior Department identifies enormous potential for offshore wind power in Atlantic
A comprehensive government survey of offshore energy resources shows enormous potential for offshore wind power, particularly off the Atlantic Coast, while at the same time identifying major information gaps for offshore oil and gas resources, according to energy and ocean policy experts at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). The survey was released today by Secretary of Interior Ken ...
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Offshore Wind China 2013, Largest Event of Its Kind in Asia, Kicks Off on 19 June in Shanghai
The number of firms in China exiting or reducing their exposure to the wind power sector is expected to significantly level off, as new policies supporting renewable energy being developed at the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and the National People's Congress (NPC) come on line. At the end of last year, China Longyuan Power Group's 150MW demonstration offshore wind ...
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China´s Offshore Wind Market Expected to Grow to US$16 billion
Despite the considerable challenges and bottlenecks faced by China's offshore wind power market, the country's efforts in technologies for development of offshore wind power have remained strong. Thanks to years of coordination and cooperation between the government and domestic offshore wind power players, the first batch of offshore wind power license projects, most of which have been idle for ...
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Asia`s Largest and World`s Second Largest Offshore Wind Event
The Offshore Wind China 2012 Conference and Exhibition, Asia's largest and the world's second largest wind power event, will take place in Shanghai between 30 May and 1 June 2012, with the aim of promoting offshore wind power development not only locally in the Shanghai area but also worldwide. The exhibition session will take place at Shanghai New International Expo Center, while the meeting ...
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Siemens Gamesa builds Arkona wind power facility in record time
The Arkona power plant has 385 MW of total capacity and will supply electricity to around 400,000 average German households annually. Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) has reportedly announced that it has successfully installed Arkona offshore wind power plant in record time of five months in Germany. The owners E.ON and Equinor officially opened the Arkona offshore wind power plant on ...
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Offshore wind industry can compete with gas and coal within a decade
The report states that the industry must significantly reduce costs over the next five years through a number of key actions, outlining where savings can be found. These include deploying larger turbines to increase energy capture (9%); fostering competition between industrial players (7%); commissioning new projects (7%); and tackling challenges in the supply chain such as construction ...
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Wind Projects Updates in Vietnam
#Wind #Energy Updates in #Vietnam. There were a total of at least 71GW of wind power projects in different stages of development in Vietnam, which was more than five times the capacity in February last year. Among them, the capacity of offshore wind power is about 65.7GW, and onshore wind power is about 5.5GW. It can be seen that in the past year or so, #COVID-19 has not stopped #investors from ...
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Siemens to cut offshore maintenance times with labor-saving drones
Advances in battery technology, operational algorithms and data analytics are improving the business case for unmanned aerial vehicle (drone) inspections of wind turbines. Drones are becoming more autonomous, potentially creating significant cost savings while improving employee safety. Technology advancements come as wind farm operators seek new ways to lower operations and maintenance ...
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Path Proposed to Connect Garden State Energy to NJ Offshore Wind
National Grid Ventures (NGV) and Con Edison Transmission this week submitted a proposal to build transmission infrastructure that will carry offshore wind power to New Jersey’s electric grid.The Garden State Energy Path will enable delivery of approximately 6 gigawatts of offshore wind power from its point of landfall at the Sea Girt National Guard Training Center to the Larrabee Tri-Collector ...
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Siemens and E.ON to build EUR 275m major Danish offshore wind farm
E.ON has placed an order with Siemens Energy for the supply of 90 wind turbines for the Rødsand II offshore wind farm south of the Danish island of Lolland in the Baltic Sea. With an installed capacity of 207 megawatts (MW) the new project will be one the largest offshore wind farms in the world. The 90 turbines with a rotor diameter of 93 meters and a capacity of 2.3 MW each will be installed in ...
By E.ON AG
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First US sale of offshore wind power signed
The first offshore wind farm to be developed in the United States has already sold one-third of the power that will be generated during its first 25 years of operation before a turbine is even placed in the water. Delmarva Power agreed Monday to buy up to 200 megawatts of power from an offshore wind farm to be developed by Babcock & Brown's subsidiary, Bluewater Wind Delaware. The ...
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Fewer pitfalls in the planning and financing of wind farms
Berlin - 2010/02/03 Poor planning, errors in the logistics, construction delays owing to overlooked permits are just some of the risks in the construction of wind parks which can drive the costs to undreamed of heights, both in the short and long term. Advanced planning can avert these and other, similar gaps during the design and financing stages. In the three-day RENAC wind courses possible ...
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IEA: Offshore Wind to Become a $1 Trillion Industry
Offshore wind power will expand impressively over the next two decades, boosting efforts to decarbonise energy systems and reduce air pollution as it becomes a growing part of electricity supply, according to an International Energy Agency report published recenty (10/5). Offshore Wind Outlook 2019 is a comprehensive global study on the subject, combining the latest technology and market ...
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RENAC wind courses can help in avoiding costly mistakes during planning and financing of wind farms
Poor planning, errors in the logistics, construction delays owing to overlooked permits are just some of the risks in the construction of wind parks which can drive the costs to undreamed of heights, both in the short and long term. Advanced planning can avert these and other, similar gaps during the design and financing stages. In the three-day RENAC wind courses possible pitfalls in planning ...
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Japan to base renewable energy village in Fukushima’s contaminated farmland
The project aims to combine the development of solar installations with agricultural progress in the region and the community-run programme in the city of Minamisoma already has 120 solar panels generating 30 kilowatts of power. The "solar sharing" concept, whereby crops are grown beneath raised solar panels, could revitalise agricultural production in the wake of the Fukushima disaster and earn ...
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E.ON reaches milestone in the largest Baltic Sea wind farm
E.ON Climate & Renewables has reached a further milestone in the expansion of offshore wind power in the Baltic Sea. Rödsand lies between the German island of Fehmarn and the Danish island of Lolland. Half of the foundations and the first cables to carry the electricity from the ninety wind turbines to the transformer station have already been successfully laid and the cable work continues. All ...
By E.ON AG
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