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Opinion: Turbulence ahead for offshore wind investors in an election year

The UK government's recent decision to raise the strike price for the next round of offshore wind pr...

Asia Pacific's offshore wind boom could be slowed by a decade

Global offshore wind will grow from 62GW to 500GW in 2035 and Asia Pacific, led by China, will accou...

Opinion: Meshed grids will unlock the full potential of offshore wind

Ambitious pledges to increase offshore wind capacity from the G7 nations along with targets set by E...

Opinion: Offshore wind auctions – why price is no longer king

With falling subsidy needs, governments and auction authorities need non-price factors to support lo...

Opinion: We're undaunted by grid capacity challenges for ScotWind

Since the exhilarating announcement of the new ScotWind projects in January last year, many in our i...

Opinion: UK can't afford to waste grid connections for viable wind development

It’s now a year since the UK government announced plans to deliver a 95% renewable electricity mix b...

Opinion: From constraint to storage – how we get there and why we need to do it now

Wind farm owners are paid millions not to operate at full capacity: we need better storage, argues D...

Developing new grid solutions for offshore wind

Last October -- for the first time since the first power plant was fired up in 1882 -- the UK genera...

Viewpoint: Hybrid projects unlock new revenue streams

The rapidly declining cost of solar and battery-storage is changing the nature of what the renewable...

Viewpoint: Knowledge helps operator respond to grid demands

WORLDWIDE: Wind farms are now being built to produce power on a gigawatt-scale, particularly offshor...

Viewpoint: Wind should learn from solar PV on storage

WORLDWIDE: Battery-storage technology has very high public visibility at present for several reasons...

Viewpoint: Non-utility offtake deals need new risk modelling

UNITED STATES: Offtake agreements with non-utility buyers are the new engine driving the US wind pow...

Record year paves the way for next step

Wind power took another great leap forward in 2015. Nearly 60GW of new capacity was installed and co...

On Reflection: We must not recreate the wrong market model

EUROPE: The EU's proposal for a new Electricity Market Design turns a blind eye to the elephant in o...

Viewpoint: Storage is key to smart thinking of the future

WORLDWIDE: "Change is on!" This was the response of one original equipment manufacturer (OEM) to a r...

Grid is key to selling wind's benefits

The US and China may be the biggest generators of wind power, but they are also the two worst pollut...

Viewpoint: Wind can be flexible - if given a reason

WORLDWIDE: Wind projects are often presented as a problem for the grid. They have different characte...

On reflection: Power transition needs pan-European market

EUROPE: As the share of renewables on Europe's grids increases and fossil-fuels start to be phased o...

Viewpoint: Please don't drop the ball now, Europe

In the liberalised electricity sectors of many European countries the markets at the heart of the po...

On Reflection: Policy must build a grid fit for a clean energy future

Almost five years ago, the American Wind Energy Association and the Solar Energy Industries Associat...

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