Have Martha's Vineyard residents ever imagined it? For years, they used all legal means to fight a planned offshore wind farm off their island until the developer gave up. Now, instead, a large industrial park for the offshore wind industry will be built in their port.

About 15,000 inhabitants live on the island of Martha's Vineyard/Ma. And if things had been like project developer Cape Wind had planned it, today the first US offshore wind farm would supply clean energy off the island. But things turned out differently. Some of the residents, among them the influential Kennedy clan, used all legal levers to prevent the construction of the wind farm since the plans became known. ...

BP Wind Energy has signed a purchase agreement to install a high-storage battery at its already running Titan 1 Wind Farm in South Dakota.

BP Wind Energy, through its wholly-owned ...

The Federal Network Agency has today awarded the first joint tender for onshore and solar wind turbines.

"Only bids for solar systems were accepted. In competition, the technology ...

In the Netherlands, the result of another offshore tender was announced last week. The winner of Borssele V is the Two Towers Consortium, consisting of Van Oord, Investri Offshore and Green Giraffe.

Borssele V has been identified as a location where technical innovations can be tested. The area is about 20 kilometres off the coast of Zeeland in the Dutch North Sea. Two 9.5 MW MHI Vestas turbines are to be installed there to supply 25,000 households with clean energy from 2021.

The use of a 'slip ...

Recently, Germany has come under strong criticism, as climate protection has become a problem for the former energy transition pioneer. Britain's latest figures, on the other hand, show how to do better. But not all that glitters on the Thames is gold either.

While still a hot topic in Germany, the British have long since enshrined the phase-out of coal by law. And within just five years they have even managed a double turnaround: In 2017, wind and solar supplied more energy than the country's nuclear power plants for the first ...

Polish System Operator PSE says 4 GW of offshore wind could be installed in the Baltic Sea by 2026/27 and up to 8 GW in the longer term.

PSE President Eryk Klosowski said that 4 GW of offshore wind could be installed ...

Located in Cameron County, near the San Roman wind farm that ACCIONA started up in December 2016, the new facility will produce around 524 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of clean energy per year - it's the ninth wind farm for Acciona in Texas....

The U.S. turbine manufacturer will provide turbines for a 100 MW wind farm.

GE Renewable Energy (NYSE: GE) today announced that it will provide its latest generation of 3.6-137 wind turbines to Mass Energy Group Holding, a ...

The torque screwdriver wins Red Dot Design Award

In so doing, the jury honoured, in particular, its functionality, ergonomic design and the underlying innovative concept. This is the only torque screwdriver with ...

The company has opened a plant for the production of concrete towers in the north of the country.

The plant is to produce the 65 towers required for the “Lagoa do Barro” wind farm, which Nordex will ...

The loading-out of the final section of the offshore power export cable to the Skagerrak cable laying vessel was successful.

Nexans has reached two key milestones in its major contract to create the high voltage power ...

New grease filling filter for automatic lubrication systems as part of SKF’s family of filtration products introduced

Installed as an inline component in the reservoir’s fill line, the filling filter helps to ensure ...

During the bomb cyclone no major power outages were reported - while wind power was well above average production

The result: no major power plant outages, and a power system that held ...

Nordex increases order intake to more than 1 gigawatt in the first quarter of 2018

This performance was underpinned by the recovery in demand in Europe with new orders for 505 megawatts (Q1/2017: 83 MW). New business ...

Contract signed for full maintenance of 22 Vestas turbines

"The new full maintenance contract for the Koegorspolder wind farm is a major step forward for Deutsche Windtechnik in the Netherlands, and it creates ...

It’s only six months now until the start of the Global Wind Summit in Hamburg, the biggest and most important meeting of the wind industry worldwide.

It’s only six months now until the start of the Global ...