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Earth Day 2020: How fast the industry has grown

The current century has seen the wind industry move into the mainstream, becoming a legitimate sourc...

Viewpoint: How blockage effects skew energy-yield forecasts

After correcting some key methods behind the original estimates, major offshore wind developer Ørste...

Modi re-election maintains India's momentum

OPINION: Narendra Modi has overseen an overhaul of the renewables landscape in India during his firs...

Viewpoint: Policy is the key to offshore growth

The "30 by 30" mantra, meaning 30GW of offshore wind deployed in Europe by 2030, has quickly moved f...

Bilbao 2019: Over 300GW to be added globally by 2024

The Global Wind Energy Council predicts more than 300GW of new wind capacity will be added over the ...

Bilbao 2019: Over 300GW to be added globally by 2024

The Global Wind Energy Council predicts more than 300GW of new wind capacity will be added over the ...

Why investors should now be banking on longer life

Now that the first megawatt-scale turbines are operating beyond their certified 20-year design life,...

Viewpoint: Are we ready for the future of onshore wind?

As the first wave of turbine models to truly prove themselves on a global scale begin to hit the sad...

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: Why a zero-subsidy future means looking past LCOE

Just when we had all (sort of) got our heads round the idea of the levelised cost of energy (LCOE), ...

Wind atlases no substitute for on-ground experience

Atlases and the maps they contain have been used for hundreds of years as a means of navigating the ...

OPINION: Support mechanisms must back innovation

Only a small proportion of the seabed around the globe is currently suitable for offshore-wind devel...

Viewpoint: How Taiwan is kickstarting Asia-Pacific offshore wind

There are many good reasons to celebrate the recent strong market development of offshore wind in th...

Community ownership is a winner for all sides

WORLDWIDE: Governments the world over try to maximise the economic gain of wind-farm developments in...

How auctions pushed down prices in Latin America

Latin America has undergone a renewable-energy revolution over the past few years, doubling its inst...

Managing increasingly diverse wind portfolios

One of the most common challenges faced by wind-farm portfolio owners in today's market is that of a...

US offshore risks falling further behind Europe

Offshore wind in the US is an abundant domestic energy resource located close to major coastal load ...

US offshore risks falling further behind Europe

Offshore wind in the United States is an abundant domestic energy resource located close to major co...

Hywind points floating offshore in right direction

WORLDWIDE: Recent reports of Statoil's Hywind Scotland project, the world's first commercial floatin...

How digital tools will drive turbine design

WORLWIDE: The influence of big data and cloud computing is being felt by all of us, not least in our...