Fossil-fuel divestment commitments have now passed the $11 trillion mark, according to figures from DivestInvest and 350.org released at the Financing the Future summit in South Africa in September. Leading the movement to exit oil, gas and coal investments have been faith-based organisations, with 22 additional religious groups announcing their divestment commitments on the eve…
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Vestas won the largest share of order capacity in Q2 — a record quarter for global wind turbine order intake. 4 September 2019 by Craig Richard The Danish manufacturer secured turbine purchase agreements for 5,696MW in the second quarter, according to its own figures. Vestas’ intake was the highest yet quarterly figure for a single OEM,…
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In the US, it’s cheaper to build and operate wind farms than buy fossil fuels. This week, the US Department of Energy released a report that looks back on the state of wind power in the US by running the numbers on 2018. The analysis shows that wind hardware prices are dropping, even as new turbine designs…
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Ventum Dynamics will officially open its new office in Dubai! In the past 3 years Ventum Dynamics has been steadily growing, based in the oil capital of Norway, Stavanger. We look forward to introducing our new revolutionary turbine prototype, The Verosphere by Ventum Dynamics, to the market in Dubai. With the ever growing market of…
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16 July 2019 by Craig Richard of WIND POWER MONTHLY Vestas will supply a consortium of EDF Renewables and Masdar with 99 turbines for Saudi Arabia’s first utility-scale wind farm. It will provide its V150-4.2MW turbine for the developers’ 415MW Dumat Al Jandal wind farm in the southerly Al Jouf region. The Danish manufacturer will…
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A surge of confirmed deals in South Africa led to Africa’s turbine order intake reaching a record 1.5GW last year, according to new figures. The 1.5GW total represents a five-fold increase year on year and is an all-time high for the continent, beating the previous record of 1.2GW, which was set in 2015. South Africa…
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Wind power may now have a foothold in the energy capital of world, Texas. But there is increasing pushback from the fossil fuel industry, according to speakers during a panel session on the Lone Star state at Windpower 2019 in Houston, Texas. “People are spending millions of dollars to hobble the wind industry,” said moderator…
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“The political climate is just not there to get anything across the finish line until after the next presidential election” in November 2020, said Kyle Davis, director of federal US and Canada regulatory and institutional affairs for Enel Green Power. Davis suggested 2021-22 as a more realistic time-frame for action, with some preliminary legislation being…
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Over the past year, U.S. Wind got calls “every day” to sell a lease the energy company bought for $1 million in 2015 in its push to build a wind farm off the New Jersey coast. “Each time we’d say no,” said Salvo Vitale, the company’s chief counsel, but the offers kept rising. Finally, just…
DetailsSwitching from fossil fuels to renewable energy is an important and necessary step towards averting climate change. However, in our efforts to go green, we also need to be mindful of other consequences, both intended and unintended – and that includes how a mass deployment of renewable technology might affect its surrounding climate. What if…
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