Tag: wind energy

GWEC’s Report on Floating Offshore Wind

GWEC’s Report on Floating Offshore Wind

April 5, 2022 | ,

Already floating offshore wind markets are emerging in a number of countries, with France, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and the UK all moving to grow floating offshore wind, with policy making underway to drive this growth.  However, behind this first round of countries backing floating offshore wind, which will be the next set of countries seen blazing a floating offshore wind path? This question sits at the heart of this study and work commissioned from Aegir Insights. 

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Vestas wins 295 MW wind turbine supply contract in Taiwan

Vestas wins 295 MW wind turbine supply contract in Taiwan

April 1, 2022 |

Vestas, a Danish wind turbine manufacturer, has been awarded a 295 MW order for the Zhong Neng offshore wind project in Changhua County, Taiwan. China Steel Corporation (CSC) and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners are working together on the project (CIP). It will have 31 Vestas V174-9.5 MW turbines with the capacity to power 300,000 Taiwanese households each year.

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CAISO’s 20-Year Transmission Outlook: To Aid US’ Grid and Renewable Goals 

CAISO’s 20-Year Transmission Outlook: To Aid US’ Grid and Renewable Goals 

March 26, 2022 |

California’s 100 Percent Clean Energy Act of 2018 or Senate Bill 100 (SB 100) calls for a switch over to carbon-free electricity by 2045, in addition to accelerating the integration of new renewable electricity resources into the grid. It also aims to ensure at least 60 per cent of California’s electricity is renewable by 2030. The draft develops a long-range blueprint of the interconnected high-voltage wires required to meet the above goals.

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Ireland invites offshore wind applications under its MAC regime

Ireland invites offshore wind applications under its MAC regime

March 25, 2022 |

The Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Eamon Ryan TD, announced the commencement of the Maritime Area Consent (MAC) Regime. The new regime enables the Minister, on an interim basis, to issue Maritime Area Consents (MACs) to renewable energy developers who meet the relevant assessment criteria. Developers must have a Maritime Area Consent to make an application for permission, to include environmental assessments, to An Bord Pleanála.

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SSE Renewables to apply for a MAC for Irish wind project

SSE Renewables to apply for a MAC for Irish wind project

March 25, 2022 |

SSE Renewables has announced its intention to apply for a Maritime Area Consent (MAC) for its Arklow Bank Wind Park Phase 2 project under Ireland’s new consenting regime. This transfer from the current route of delivery via the Foreshore Act into the MAC regime has been notified to the relevant authorities. The said project, now progressing through the MAC regime, will be delivered later than initially envisaged.

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Unlocking onshore wind in Poland

Unlocking onshore wind in Poland

March 24, 2022 |

Poland’s restrictive onshore wind law limits the deployment of new wind projects to a value that is not compatible with EU’s climate targets. An update to Poland’s problematic onshore wind law is already on the table, yet the government is delaying the amendment despite huge public support. Being the cheapest energy source, onshore wind could also help lower the extremely high coal-and-gas-driven electricity prices, currently wreaking havoc in the country’s economy.

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<strong>The state of offshore wind development in the United States</strong>

The state of offshore wind development in the United States

March 20, 2022 |

The offshore wind industry in the United States crawled forward for more than a decade, slowed by litigation, protracted permitting, complex and novel regulatory frameworks, stakeholder opposition, and unfavorable energy markets. As of 2021, there were only two operational offshore wind projects in U.S. waters with a total of seven turbines. Although there are currently only seven turbines in U.S. waters, there are around 20 proposed offshore wind projects in various stages of development with a projected pipeline of 30 GW in federal lease areas issued to date.

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Mainstream and Aker acquire 50 per cent stake in Japanese offshore wind project

Mainstream and Aker acquire 50 per cent stake in Japanese offshore wind project

March 17, 2022 |

Progression Energy has sold an initial 50 per cent interest in an 800 MW floating offshore wind project in Japan to Mainstream Renewable Power and Aker Offshore Wind. The agreement was announced in August 2021, but the financial details have yet to be revealed. The offshore wind project’s location is thought to be suitable for floating wind and is close to grid connections.

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RWE wins two new onshore wind projects in Germany

RWE wins two new onshore wind projects in Germany

March 14, 2022 |

In an onshore wind power infrastructure auction, the German Federal Network Agency awarded RWE two onshore wind projects. The Grevenbroich wind farm in North Rhine-Westphalia has a total installed capacity of 45 MW, whereas the Bartelsdorf 2 project is in Lower Saxony. The Grevenbroich wind farm will have a total installed capacity of 17.1 MW, and construction is planned to start in the second quarter of 2022.

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Octopus Renewables to acquire wind farms across the UK and Europe

Octopus Renewables to acquire wind farms across the UK and Europe

March 14, 2022 |

Octopus Renewables, a UK-based renewable energy company, has signed an agreement to acquire four wind farms in the UK and Europe. The wind farms are based in the UK, Sweden, France, and Finland. Octopus Renewables has entered into an agreement with Swedish energy company OX2 to acquire a 31.5 MW onshore wind farm in Sweden.

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Vestas to stop all its four wind projects in Russia

Vestas to stop all its four wind projects in Russia

March 8, 2022 |

In response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Danish turbine manufacturer Vestas plans to halt four Russian wind projects. Novoalekseevskaya, Grazhdanskaya, Ivanovskaya, and Pokrovskaya are the four projects now in the development phase. They have a total capacity of 253 MW. Vestas was selected for these projects by a partnership that included Gazprombank of Russia and Fortum of Finland.

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Siemens Gamesa secures a wind turbine contract in Sweden

Siemens Gamesa secures a wind turbine contract in Sweden

March 4, 2022 |

Siemens Gamesa has signed an agreement with Eolus, a major wind power developer in the Nordic region, to deliver 16 wind turbines for upcoming wind projects in Skallberget-Utterberget and Tjarnas, Sweden. The first project, located in the Avesta Municipality in Skallberget-Utterberget, will be equipped with twelve SG 6.6-170 wind turbines that will generate approximately 74 MW of power. The second project, in Hedemora Municipality’s Tjarnas, will feature four turbines producing around 25 MW of power.

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The Philippines is well positioned to be a regional leader in wind energy: GWEC

The Philippines is well positioned to be a regional leader in wind energy: GWEC

February 23, 2022 |

The Philippines has an appropriate permitting and auctioning infrastructure in place and was on track a decade ago to rely primarily on renewable energy. In the business-as-usual scenario we forecast that almost 1.15 GW of wind capacity will be installed between 2022 and 2026. If a green recovery is implemented, we forecast a fast acceleration of wind capacity from 2024 onwards, which would result in almost 1.65 GW being installed between 2022 and 2026 – a potential upside of 500 MW.

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Solar power will account for nearly half of new U.S. electric generating capacity in 2022

Solar power will account for nearly half of new U.S. electric generating capacity in 2022

February 1, 2022 |

In 2022, we expect 46.1 gigawatts (GW) of new utility-scale electric generating capacity to be added to the U.S. power grid, according to our Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory. Almost half of the planned 2022 capacity additions are solar, followed by natural gas at 21% and wind at 17%. We expect U.S. utility-scale solar generating capacity to grow by 21.5 GW in 2022. Another 7.6 GW of wind capacity is scheduled to come online in 2022.

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Fortum and Bank GPB partner on wind power production in Russia

Fortum and Bank GPB partner on wind power production in Russia

January 20, 2022 |

Fortum, the Finnish state-owned energy company, has announced its collaboration with Bank GPB on wind power generation in Russia. A 1.3 GW portfolio of wind projects is being transferred from the Fortum-Rusnano Wind Investment fund (50/50 joint venture) to a recently formed joint venture with Bank GPB for this purpose. The Fortum-Rusnano Wind Investment Fund joint venture will be dissolved following the transfer.

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Great River Energy, Apex Clean Energy sign an agreement for obtaining power from 400 MW Discovery Wind projet

Great River Energy, Apex Clean Energy sign an agreement for obtaining power from 400 MW Discovery Wind projet

January 20, 2022 |

Great River Energy and Apex Clean Energy have signed an agreement to obtain renewable energy from a 400 MW wind farm in McLean County, North Dakota. The Discovery Wind project will be North Dakota’s largest wind project, with commercial operations planned in 2025. It would supply renewable energy across a 436-mile high-voltage direct-current (HVDC) transmission system.

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ScotWind offshore wind leasing delivers major boost to Scotland’s net zero aspirations

ScotWind offshore wind leasing delivers major boost to Scotland’s net zero aspirations

January 20, 2022 |

Crown Estate Scotland has announced the outcome of its application process for ScotWind Leasing, the first Scottish offshore wind leasing round in over a decade and the first ever since the management of offshore wind rights were devolved to Scotland. 17 projects have been selected out of a total of 74 applications, and have now been offered option agreements which reserve the rights to specific areas of seabed. A total of just under £700m will be paid by the successful applicants in option fees and passed to the Scottish Government for public spending.   

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The U.S. offshore wind industry has lagged Northern Europe’s: US Department of Energy

The U.S. offshore wind industry has lagged Northern Europe’s: US Department of Energy

January 18, 2022 |

Electricity prices tend to be lower in the United States than in Europe, so it is more difficult for new technologies to be cost competitive in the U.S. market. Prior to states enacting mandates for offshore wind energy procurement, the United States lacked the supportive policies that drove the first decade-plus of European offshore wind energy deployment. Despite the challenges, progress is being made to increase the speed and scale of U.S. offshore wind development.

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Electricity grids for a climate-neutral Europe

Electricity grids for a climate-neutral Europe

January 4, 2022 | , ,

On 9 December 2021, ETIPWind organised an online webinar on ‘Electricity grids for a climate-neutral Europe’. During the webinar industry experts agreed that there is an urgent need to increase collaboration among stakeholders and to implement new technologies to deliver electricity grids that can uphold climate neutrality in 2050. The new ETIPWind factsheet spells out four technology and policy areas Europe needs to work on to deliver the electricity system necessary for a climate-neutral energy system by 2050.

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