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Analysis: The trouble at Siemens Gamesa

Siemens Energy scrapped its financial outlook last week after revealing the shocking extent of turbi...

Analysis: Why did Siemens Gamesa and GE settle their legal battle?

Turbine giants Siemens Gamesa and GE have resolved their legal battle and agreed confidential terms,...

Analysis: Five reasons California’s floating auction underperformed the New York Bight

The winning $757.1 million in bids in the provisional results of this week’s California offshore auc...

California set for 'litmus test' floating wind auction worth 'up to $2.5bn'

California’s offshore wind seabed leasing round could serve as a “litmus test” for how the US Bureau...

Exclusive: 6MW turbine with 175m rotor unveiled as Enercon targets 'new onshore wind top segment'

Enercon has achieved a new milestone with its enhanced 6.0MW EP5 model, featuring 86m in-house blade...

Analysis: Nordex takes evolutionary step in Delta4000 series with rotor-size leap

The latest Nordex N175/6.X for low and medium-wind markets likely sets a new, albeit temporary, onsh...

Could SGRE’s IP court battle with GE have implications for the entire wind industry?

As the intellectual property battle between Siemens Gamesa and GE heats up, the impact may well be f...

French startup looks to onshore wind for green hydrogen

Construction starts on a pioneering green hydrogen plant powered by onshore wind turbines leaving th...

Why GE is looking to law courts to defend US share

Take the hit for $220 million in new licence costs, or face a possible $1 billion-plus bill for sale...

Utility cash brings full-scale 15MW Nezzy2 within reach

Aerodyn-engineering has joined forces with utility EnBW to accelerate the commercial development of ...

Industry’s hydrogen experiment steps up a gear

Major offshore wind developer Ørsted is leading a group of Danish businesses from the demand and sup...

How SGRE upped the offshore stakes with 14MW+ turbine and 222m rotor

Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) has unveiled details of the world’s largest and most powerful...

UK and France missing out as turbine tech lags behind

Over the last five years, the UK and France have missed out on over 1.8GW of capacity due to using o...

How SGRE is winning the offshore OEM war

Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) is tightening its grip on the offshore wind market, new figur...

Are prefabricated foundations the future for onshore sites?

Utility Enel has completed what is claimed to be the first fully prefabricated wind-turbine foundati...

Sharpening-up blade recycling

The wind power industry has spent decades working on the design and manufacture of turbine rotor bla...

Ideol pilot doubles power yield and is 'ready for deployment'

A floating demonstration project using an Ideol platform and currently being tested off Le Croisic o...

What is missing for floating wind to flourish?

Floating offshore wind enjoyed much more visibility and a larger slice of the action than it usually...

Oil and gas sector's lessons for floating offshore wind

Learning from the oil and gas industry can help accelerate floating offshore wind development and cu...

Merchant sites show onshore potential if governments listen

Two turbine orders in early September for subsidy-free sites indicate that onshore wind is on the br...