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Acciona launches shoes made from recycled blades for the renewables enthusiast in your life

Spain-based Acciona Energy has made a limited edition pair of shoes from recycled wind turbine blade...

Floating offshore wind specialist Gazelle teams with Tugdock for cost-cutting design

Floating offshore wind energy developer Gazelle Wind Power has announced a collaboration with the ma...

Vattenfall sells Norfolk offshore wind zone to RWE for €1 billion

Swedish utility Vattenfall is selling three massive offshore wind projects it has been developing in...

Updated: Vattenfall leaves door ajar on Norfolk Boreas with 4GW Vestas deals for UK offshore wind projects

Swedish developer Vattenfall has left the door open on its UK Norfolk Boreas project as it signed a ...

Ørsted makes final investment decision on Hornsea Three mega project

Ørsted has made a final investment decision (FID) on the Hornsea Three offshore wind farm currently ...

Ilmatar commissions further 87MW in Finland

Ilmatar has commenced commercial operations at its Västervik and Isokeidas wind farms ahead of ...

Sami group accepts annual compensation deal over Statkraft wind farm

A group of Sami indigenous people has accepted financial compensation in Norway after years of prote...

Shell-Eneco JV brings zero-subsidy Dutch offshore wind farm online

CrossWind has announced that the 759MW Hollandse Kust Noord offshore wind farm became operational to...

Denmark closes 'open door' offshore wind scheme after failure to reconcile policy with EU rules

Denmark will close its so-called ‘open door’ scheme for offshore wind development and reject the rem...

EU member states sign European Wind Charter in ‘huge day’ for industry

European Union member states have signed the bloc’s European Wind Charter designed to boost the indu...

Eolus eyes up to 25MW turbines for third gigawatt-scale Swedish offshore wind farm

Swedish developer Eolus Vind has announced plans to develop an offshore wind farm in Sweden’s Gulf o...

Iberdrola completes installation at French offshore wind project

Installation of all 62 Siemens Gamesa SG 8.0-167 DD turbines has been completed on schedule at Iberd...

Court orders dismantling of French wind farm over bird deaths

A court of appeal in Nîmes, France, has ordered the dismantling of an operational wind farm due to t...

Arise eyes Ukraine with majority stake in developer

Arise has acquired a 70% stake in Fenix Repower, a developer of solar, onshore wind and storage proj...

German wind sector ‘positive’ after final onshore tender of 2023

The German wind sector is “positive” after nearly 2GW of projects secured contracts in the country’s...

Siemens Gamesa paid £2 million to engineer after arm ‘guillotined’ by offshore wind turbine

Siemens Gamesa has paid £2 million (€2.3 million) to an engineer who lost his arm while checking one...

Sweden: Almost 700MW of new onshore wind comes online

Recent weeks have seen significant capacity additions in Sweden, with Windpower Intelligence identif...

Vestas bags 186MW wind turbine order in Finland

Vestas has received a firm order from Ilmatar, for 30 V162-6.2 MW turbines for the Pahkakoski projec...

Vestas deal to supply 'most powerful' wind turbines in Spain to Repsol project

Danish wind manufacturer Vestas has received a 31MW order from Spanish oil and gas major Repsol for ...

EU bank pledges €5 billion to guarantee wind power equipment orders

The EU’s investment bank provision of €5 billion in counter-guarantees for the European wind sector ...