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‘Urgent need’ for safety and technical training as wind sector expands

The shortfall of wind power technicians needed to build, install, operate and maintain the 1,500GW o...

Machine-learning could see wind projects built faster and more safely

A firm has launched a machine-learning tool for the renewables industry which it claims will help pr...

How can the wind industry close its ‘workforce gap’?

More than two thirds (68%) of wind industry employers have had “some or great difficulty” locating q...

SGRE-GE court battle and Biden’s big policy move – how will they affect US offshore wind?

The US Business Network for Offshore Wind discusses SGRE and GE’s court battle and Biden’s big polic...

Half a million workers in wind will need training by 2025

Forecast expansion will require massive training rollout, with further scaling up needed to meet net...

Global offshore wind employment to triple by 2030

Hundreds of thousands of additional workers will be needed over the next decade to deliver the growt...

'Wind will be the backbone of future energy systems', WindEurope CEO

In a wide-ranging interview, WindEurope head Giles Dickson assesses the current and near-future stat...

Improving skills base is 'the biggest challenge we face'

MHI Vestas CEO and WindEurope chairman Philippe Kavafyan outlines what the wind energy industry will...

Emerging offshore markets facing skills shortage

More than 77,000 workers will be needed to build the nearly 31GW of new offshore wind farms expected...

WindEurope unconvinced a post-Brexit trade deal will be reached

Trade bodies WindEurope and RenewableUK have published a briefing about the impacts the UK’s exit fr...

New York ups offshore plans to 9GW

Plans to nearly quadruple the state's offshore wind target to 9GW by 2035 have been unveiled by New ...

New York ups offshore plans to 9GW

Plans to nearly quadruple the state's offshore wind target to 9GW by 2035 have been unveiled by New ...

Vestas to open manufacturing facility in Australia

AUSTRALIA: Vestas will open a new renewable energy hub in Victoria, featuring a turbine manufacturin...

Turbine service company trains refugees

GERMANY: A project named "Empower Refugees" to train refugees living in Germany to service wind turb...

Swedish cold climate centre picks site

SWEDEN: A new wind turbine test centre, designed to push machines to their cold climate limits, is t...

Ørsted begins UK coast O&M hub build

UK: Offshore wind developer Ørsted (formerly Dong Energy) has started construction of a new operatio...

Gallery: Popcorn 'acts as oil' in emergency exercise

GERMANY: Dong Energy carried out an emergency exercise at its recently completed 312MW Borkum Riffgr...

Popcorn used in emergency exercise at Borkum Riffgrund 1

GERMANY: Project developer Dong Energy has used cinema snack popcorn to simulate an oil spill at its...

Gamesa to form Brazilian 'university'

BRAZIL: Manufacturer Gamesa and the Bahia state government have signed a memorandum of understanding...

Gallery: Maersk offshore first aid training

UK: Maersk Training has partnered with turbine manufacturer MHI-Vestas to establish an advanced trai...

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