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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
Vestas confirms 328MW of V136-4.2MW orders in Australia
Vestas wins two wind projects totalling 328MW in Victoria, Australia, in a partnership deal with Global Power Generation, a subsidiary of multinational power company Naturgy Group
Borssele 1 & 2 offshore 752MW wind farm now fully online
Ørsted's first Dutch offshore wind farm has been fully commissioned, making it the largest in the Netherlands and the second biggest globally
Warning over heavy lift vessel 'bottleneck' for offshore wind
Analysis from Rystad Energy indicates demand from offshore wind's development pipeline is outpacing the number vessels capable of installing large components
Turbine Technology
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Denmark Exclusive: Vestas deploys remotely operated blade-correcting installation tool
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Europe’s ‘hidden demand’ for green hydrogen could hit 1,400TWh
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United Kingdom ORE Catapult plans 3D wind turbine blade printing
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France ‘Wind turbines don’t turn forever’: Industry issues new end-of-life guidance
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United States ‘Melting’ blades offer glimpse of recyclable future
Policy latest
Russia more than triples capacity in 2020 but now faces delays
Wind farm commissioning in Russia has continued in 2020 as developers caught up with delays from 2019, but they now face a race against time, with 700MW still due to come online by the end of the year
UK offshore wind to compete in own CfD tender round
The UK government hopes to award contracts to 12GW of renewable energy capacity in the next auction rounds, which are scheduled for late 2021
India and the UK break into EY's top five investment markets
Australia, India and the UK continue a march up the top table of investment markets in EY's renewable energy country attractiveness index (Recai)
Contracts
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Canada Siemens Gamesa to supply subsidy-free Canadian wind farm
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Germany Wind developers avoid latest German wind-solar PV tender
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United Kingdom RWE to sell 49% stake in Humber Gateway wind farm
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United States Vestas to cut 'about 200 jobs' at Colorado blade factory
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Spain Siemens Gamesa names new offshore CEO
Tenders & investments
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United States 'First US offshore wind tower factory' planned for New York
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Norway Norwegian wind industry and communities unite in call for wind taxes
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Norway Oil and gas investors target Norwegian offshore wind
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United States 'Radically different vision': Wind industry reacts to Biden win
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Russia Russia to slash support and increase fines for new wind farms
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