The Saudi Kingdom cannot escape global developments either and is increasingly turning to alternatives to oil and gas. The focus is shifting to sun and wind for the desert state. A first step towards commercial wind energy production has now been taken.
Until now, the Arabian Peninsula has been a blank spot on the wind maps of the world. One reason for this is that Saudi Arabia was until recently quite locked to the outside world. Additionally for many years the country's oil reserves were considered infinite and thus believed to secure energy supplies far into the future.
The Kingdom holds the world's second largest oil reserves and the fourth largest gas reserves. But the development of ...
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The Combined Grid Solution (CGS) connects two transformer platforms in the Baltic Sea on the Danish and German sides both to each other and to the existing land connections of the offshore wind farms. As a result, CGS can transmit offshore wind power to Denmark or Germany and can also be used for cross-border electricity trading. 
Van Oord is now a shareholder in Saare Wind Energy which is developing the Saaremaa offshore wind farm in Estonia. The collaboration with Van Oord allows Saare Wind Energy to intensify the development process, as financial support and knowledge are combined. 
wpd currently has five projects under construction in Poland, which were awarded to wpd in an auction in November 2018. 
"The Ocean-Based Climate Solutions Act will help blow the wind into the sails of the American offshore wind industry, setting national offshore wind goals of 12.5GW on the outer continental shelf by 2025 and 25GW by 2030." ...
The ‘hybrid system project’ combines wind energy, solar energy and storage technology. 
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GE Renewable Energy won an order by SB Energy (SoftBank Group) to supply, install and commission 121 turbines of its 2.7-132 model, cumulating 327 MW