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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The Evolution of Wind Power is an interactive map reveals the cumulative installed capacity per country, continent and the world between 1981-2018. The map is the result of a cooperation between The Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) and renewable energy software company Greenbyte. Here’s a closer look at the figures and see what has happened in the…
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China cuts solar subsidies as it starts to build its largest offshore wind facility SIMON ROUGHNEEN, Asia Regional CorrespondentNovember 04, 2018 16:47 JST JAKARTA — China is starting to build its largest offshore wind-power facility in the latest move in an accelerating shift in Asia away from solar to wind and other renewable energy…
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Bergen, Norway (CNN) – Subtly, as is their style, the Nordic countries — Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Åland — have seized global leadership on clean energy innovation and aim to keep it. Their motive isn’t simply green-tinged altruism — although they’re acutely cognizant of climate change and pollution. They want…
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Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc has begun offering its own battery-powered ship engines in a move that signals the gathering momentum behind a push toward hybrid and ultimately all-electric vessels. While maritime demand for lithium-ion batteries is focused on providing top-up power for traditional diesel and gas-turbine ships, the technology could propel fully electric craft over a…
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Over 200 years after steamships first began crossing the ocean, wind power is finding its way back into seafaring. Global shipping firm Maersk is planning to fit spinning “rotor sails” to one of its oil tankers as a way of reducing its fuel costs and carbon emissions. The company behind the technology, Finnish firm Norsepower, says this is…
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Europe added 4.5 GW of wind energy capacity in the first half of 2018, according to figures released today by WindEurope. The figure is down on the same period last year (6.1 GW) though is in line with expectations. There was 3.3 GW of onshore wind, driven by Germany (1.6 GW), France (605 MW) and…
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US president Donald Trump doesn’t give up a fight easily, especially if it involves one of his many properties. One such fight happened in Scotland, where the Trump Organization owns a golf course and tried to block the building of a wind farm that would be visible from the course. The company’s legal challenges were…
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Kraftselskaper i Midt- og Sør-Norge har blitt nødt til å stanse produksjonen ved flere kraftverk. Årsaken er lite vann i vassdrag og innsjøer. Det skriver NRK på et tidspunkt der store deler av Norge er inne i en tørkeperiode. Månedene mai, juni og juli i år er så langt tørrere enn de samme månedene i den…
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