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Worker dies in fall at US wind farm
Police in Texas confirm they are investigating after a 39-year-old man fell to his death while working uptower on a turbine at the Langford wind project
Denmark launches tender for Thor
The auction for the planned 800-1,000MW Thor offshore project will have a deadline of November 2021
Vestas wins 144MW supply deal in Greece
Vestas grows its market share in Greece with a new 144MW order
GE Renewable Energy secures 576MW Invenergy order
Orders for 576 MW of onshore wind tech from Invenergy include GE’s 2.X-127 and 2.X-116 turbines
Sweden and Norway agree end to electricity certificate scheme
The possibility of an extension to the two countries' shared electricity system creates uncertainty, wind industry groups claim
Cross-sector group developing '100% recyclable' blade
Between 85% and 90% of a wind turbine’s total mass can be recycled today, but a new research group hopes to produce an entirely recyclable blade
Vattenfall to balance Finnish wind for Google
Swedish energy firm Vattenfall will level out production from a wind farm powering tech giant Google
Covid-19 update: WindEnergy Hamburg goes digital
How the global coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic is impacting the industry's 2020 goals.
Wind sector calls for more ambition as German cabinet approves energy reform
Germany's federal cabinet has approved reform to help renewables provide 65% of the country's electricity by 2030
Oil major Shell to supply Microsoft with renewable energy
Details over a commitment to wind power remain sparse in a deal between big oil and tech that could be transformative if it delivers on its promise
'Questions remain' over China’s carbon neutrality pledge
Chinese premier Xi Jinping told the UN General Assembly that the world's top emitter plans to reduce its carbon emissions from 2030 and reach carbon neutrality by 2060
GE to supply 13MW Haliade-X turbines for world's largest wind farm
GE is due to uprate a prototype 12MW Haliade-X turbine to 13MW within months
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In Depth
Explainer: The hidden costs of oil storage
With the influx of renewables on the grid in recent years and the slump in demand due to Covid-19 health crisis, the price of oil has plummeted. So is there case to be made to store up oil at these low costs for when times are hard? Or should the global pandemic be the catalyst to leaving oil in the ground? We take a look at some of the figures.
Poland looks to renewables and nuclear to wean itself off coal
Poland plans to invest heavily in offshore wind power, solar PV and nuclear energy as it accelerates plans to reduce its dependence on coal
MingYang scales-up hybrid-drive technology to supersize class
Chinese OEM MingYang is forging a new place between direct-drive and high-speed geared wind turbine technology with its hybrid-drive designs. Eize de Vries talks to president and chief technical officer Zhang Qiying
Major OEMs facing huge losses as impact of Covid-19 pandemic hits hard
All four major western manufacturers recorded losses for the second quarter as the coronavirus outbreak continued to play havoc with the global economy and supply chains.
Opinion
Editor's view: a summer marred by losses
Wind power in Europe was not looking particularly healthy even before the pandemic struck.
SGRE: picking up the turbine pace
The merger of Siemens and Gamesa was never going to be a simple affair. Two major multinational wind-turbine manufacturers pursuing separate markets with different turbine technologies might have made all kinds of sense as a business plan on paper, but threw up all manner of questions about how that could actually be achieved on the production floors and at project sites.
Repowering is key to true 'transition'
There was always something slightly dispiriting about the phrase "energy transition". It represented something sluggish and recalcitrant -- a creeping, crawling process through conferences and committees about how shifting from dirty and resource-finite sources to clean and sustainable energy could be managed in the prevailing economic and political circumstances.
Coronavirus has changed our world drastically, but we still have a job to do
This column is generally written with the reasonable expectation that the world will not have radically changed in the seven to ten days it takes to get from this keyboard to your intray. That is clearly not the case on this occasion.
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Austria EIB backs Austrian repowering project - Enefit Green makes Finnish market entry
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Mainstream selects leadership team - Plans for 1.1GW Australian offshore wind
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Brookfield hires ex-Bank of England chief - Vestas secures Finnish order
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UK wind record broken - New Amazon project in Ireland
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Siemens Gamesa appoints new US service CEO - Nordex signs deal for eight turbines
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Japan Jera planning 520MW offshore wind farm - Foresight acquires two operational wind farms
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