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US boom and large offshore wind projects supercharge Vestas' Q3 turbine orders

Vestas announced its highest quarterly order intake for two years in Q3 2023, with its order book sw...

Plan to replace Spain's largest coal plant with wind farm moves forward

Spanish utility Endesa has won approval from the Spanish government for its planned closure of a coa...

American Clean Power Association: Policy vacuum feeds five-year low for US onshore wind

Wind installations in the US were down 37% year-on-year in 2022 with onshore commissioning at a five...

Nordex marks milestone with first installation of 6MW onshore wind turbine

The first Nordex N163.6X turbine to be installed forms part of a 500MW Dutch repowering project...

Final turbine installed at 320MW Dutch onshore wind farm

Zeewolde’s 83 new Vestas turbines replace around 220 older ones at the largest onshore project in th...

German wind sector proposes permitting and repowering fixes

WindEurope, BWE and several turbine manufacturers and wind developers have called on the German gove...

Finance heavyweights launch new firm to repower old German wind farms

Independent power producer NextWind has raised $100 million to invest and repower the German onshore...

‘Wind turbines don’t turn forever’: Industry issues new end-of-life guidance

WindEurope has issued new guidance on dismantling onshore turbines, many thousands of which are due ...

Germany seeks fix for ageing fleet

Government and industry have begun talks about what to do with 16GW of onshore wind capacity due to ...

Ørsted plans 100MW ‘green ammonia’ electrolyser

Ørsted teams up with fertiliser firm to develop a 100MW wind-powered electrolyser plant for renewabl...

German production record 'masks sector challenges'

Wind power generation reached record levels in Germany in the first half of the year, according to n...

France eyes floating 'leadership' in new energy plan

France has confirmed plans to boost its capacity base and become a “world leader” in floating offsho...

Chinese repowering boom expected from 2023

Repowering in China is expected to accelerate rapidly from 2023 as its wind power fleet ages, with m...

VIDEO: France decommissions its oldest wind project

France's oldest wind project in Port-la-Nouvelle, southern France, has been decommissioned with all ...

Regulatory support 'needed' for lifetime extension

A severe lack of regulatory support is in place to help wind farm owners repower or upgrade componen...

Repowering would 'help UK bridge energy gap'

Repowering onshore wind farms can help the UK towards meeting a looming clean energy deficit, accord...

'First risk mitigation deals' signed for repowering projects

Asset manager Ares Management Corporation has concluded what is believed to be the first proxy reven...

Vattenfall and Eneco repower Dutch site

Vattenfall and Eneco have completed repowering a wind farm on the Dutch coast, nearly doubling its c...

PNE repowers German wind farm to 21.6MW

PNE has completed repowering a wind farm in north-west Germany, halving the number of turbines, but ...

GALLERY: 'First' offshore repowering completed

SWEDEN: Other developers have opted simply to decommission aged offshore wind farms as they reach th...

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