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Vestas’ Year-End Deals Include Wind Projects in U.S., Brazil, Ireland

December 28, 2022 admin Brazil, Business, Denmark, International, Ireland, offshore wind, onshore wind, repowering, Sweden, turbines, u.s., uk, vestas, Wind

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2022 21:13:21 +0000

Major wind turbine manufacturer Vestas has announced several deals as the company ends 2022, including what the Danish company calls the largest wind project in Latin America, along with a U.S. onshore wind repowering project. The announcements come as the wind power industry continues to be challenged by several factors, including equipment supply chain along […]

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Vestas’ Year-End Deals Include Wind Projects in U.S., Brazil, Ireland

December 28, 2022 admin Brazil, Business, Denmark, International, Ireland, offshore wind, onshore wind, repowering, Sweden, turbines, u.s., uk, vestas, Wind

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2022 21:13:21 +0000

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Fields of Green Returning to Columboola

December 15, 2022 admin Australia, bi-facial solar panels, clean power, Queensland, Queensland University of Technology, Solar energy, solar power plants, vestas, wind energy

Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2022 10:00:17 +0000

I worked in the Chinchilla/Dulacca area of Queensland’s Darling Downs in the early ’80s. It was a sea of undulating green fields — wheat and sorghum. Then came the coal mines, the gas fracking, and the polarization with the “Lock the Gate” and “Coal for Breakfast” campaigns. Now the area has turned to renewable energy […]

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GE Will Cut 20% of U.S. Onshore Wind Workforce

October 7, 2022 admin ge, job cuts, layoffs, news, onshore wind, siemens gamesa, vestas, Wind

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2022 16:54:35 +0000

General Electric (GE) has notified staff that it plans to lay off about 20% of the workforce in its U.S. onshore wind business. A report from NASDAQ this week said the cuts are part of a plan to restructure and resize the onshore wind division, as the group “is grappling with weak demand and rising […]

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First Serious Grid-Scale Battery Connected In Denmark At Vestas Headquarters

September 9, 2022 admin batteries, battery storage, clean power, Denmark, enel x, Energy Storage, hornsdale battery reserve, moss landing energy storage facility, Østerild wind turbine test site, vestas, wind energy, wind turbines

Credit to Author: Jesper Berggreen| Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2022 16:00:29 +0000

The local news outlet TV2 Østjylland reports that at the Vestas headquarters in Aarhus, Denmark, the country’s largest grid battery has been deployed, and it’s about time. Denmark is known in the world for being a first mover in renewable energy, and every day for more than 10 years I have passed the wind turbine […]

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Swedish Group Moves Ahead With World’s Largest Single Offshore Wind Project

June 27, 2022 admin Aurora, ge renewable energy, GERMANY, mingyang smart energy, offshore wind, ox2, renewable energy, Renewables, siemens gamesa, vestas

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2022 21:11:16 +0000

Swedish-based renewable energy developer OX2 has taken another step toward construction of its Aurora offshore wind farm, a 5.5-GW project sited between the islands of Gotland and Oland in the Baltic Sea. OX2 on June 27 announced it had submitted a permit application to build the wind farm under the auspices of Sweden’s Exclusive Economic […]

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Wooden Towers To Help Cut The Cost Of Wind Turbines, Even More

June 1, 2022 admin clean power, modvion, rabbalshede kraft, stora enso, Sweden, varberg energi, vattenfall, vestas, wind energy, wind turbines, wood, wooden wind turbine tower

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Tue, 31 May 2022 17:05:29 +0000

Modvion is building wooden towers for wind turbines, and the leading forest products firm Stora Enso is among those lending a hand.

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Dramatic Innovation-Driven Ramp Up of Floating Offshore Wind Anticipated by 2030

May 2, 2022 admin Business, climate change, engineering, equinor, floating offshore wind, full coverage, gwec, hywind, International, kincardine, Markets, news, O&M, offshore wind, Policy, Research and Development, siemens gamesa, supply chains, Technology, vestas, Wind, wind technology

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Mon, 02 May 2022 04:17:00 +0000

A drumbeat of floating offshore wind–related developments this year suggests the pipeline for the long-nascent wind technology sub-sector may be finally beginning to grow. While floating wind’s current

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Vestas Cutting Jobs Despite Leading Wind Installations

March 22, 2022 admin Business, job cuts, news, offshore wind, sgre ge renewable energy, siemens gamesa, vestas, Wind, wind power, wind turbines

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2022 15:06:44 +0000

Vestas occupies the top spot when it comes to market share among global wind turbine manufacturers, according to a new analysis, but the Danish business is not immune to the challenges facing several of the leading companies in the wind power sector. Supply chain issues are buffeting wind energy, as they have other industries. Though […]

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Plot Thickens Around Floating Offshore Wind Farm Mystery Tour

March 1, 2020 admin clean power, maine, offshore wind energy, offshore wind farms, principle power, renewable hydrogen, vestas, wind energy

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2020 19:33:10 +0000

A rather large contingent of key offshore wind energy fans from the US is heading all the way over to Scotland to eyeball new floating wind technology