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Content Iss. 2021-02-18

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 EDITORIAL
Comment: Bill Gates' Brave New World
Detail_bill_gates_1Bill Gates wrote a new book: 'How to avoid a climate desaster'. Another good title: 'How to slide into a nuclear catastrophe'

Is Bill Gates the richest man in the world currently, or perhaps Tesla founder Elon Musk or (ex-)Amazon boss Jeff Bezos? No matter, when one of these men opens his mouth, the world listens. These three e.g. like to thus draw attention to the world's problems. And besides COVID-19, what could be more pressing than climate protection?

So it's not surprising that Gates devotes himself to this topic in his new book and publicly declares that he wants to invest two billion dollars with his foundation in the coming years to promote climate protection innovations.

So far, so ...

 HIGHLIGHTS
BloombergNEF: Annual Offshore Wind Installations to Triple This Decade
List_bnef_20210217The offshore wind industry is emerging unscathed from the Covid-19 pandemic, BloombergNEF states.

The offshore wind industry is emerging unscathed from the Covid-19 pandemic. By the ...

Australia: UNSW Sydney Leads Research for Renewables in Infrastructure Projects
List_wind_solar_6A research consortium led by UNSW Sydney will investigate the potential to grow a new industry that will use cheap excess renewable energy to make fuel, chemicals and feedstocks to power a range of New South Wales...
Common Pipistrelle Bats Attracted to Wind Turbines Report: U.S. Will Reach 9 GW of Floating Offshore Wind in 2035
List_aeigr_20210212Aegir Insights forecasts a build-out of floating offshore wind of between 6 and 11 GW by 2035 in California, Oregon, Hawaii, Michigan, New York and Maine

A mere week into his presidency, ...

 WINDFAIR EDITORS
Iberdrola Plans Investment Spree for Spanish Floating Offshore Industry
Detail_iberdrola_20200918Iberdrola is planning the first industrial scale floating offshore wind farm in Spain with an investment of more than €1 billion to commission 300 MW of clean energy off the Spanish coast.

Iberdrola is planning what will be the first industrial scale floating offshore wind farm in Spain, to which it would allocate more than €1 billion of investment to commission 300 MW of clean energy off the Spanish coast.

The floating offshore wind project represents an opportunity ...

Offshore Company GBM Works Receives Funding for Prototype Construction
Detail_gbm_works_20210217The Dutch company has developed a method to anchor wind turbines almost silently in the seabed. Funding will be used to build a prototype.

Offshore company GBM Works has received a €1.8 million grant from Dutch enterprise agency RVO to build a prototype for a much quieter and faster installation of offshore wind turbines. The company is involved in a large offshore innovation ...

GWEC: Wind Growth is Back on Track
 MEMBER NEWS
Texas Power Outages: Don't Blame It on the Wind Turbines!
List_snowzilla-1192790_1280The American Clean Power Association has issued a statement on the ongoing discussion in U.S. media which blames renewable energy for the power outages during the latest winter storms in Texas ...
2020: Statkraft Publishes Results
List_windpark_19"The financial results for 2020 was satisfactory given the very low Nordic power prices. The main reasons were successful hedging and solid contribution from other market activities," says CEO Christian Rynning-Tønnesen. ...
Vestas Orders WINDLINK® Cables from Nexans
List_vestas_20210217Two-year contract will see around one million Windlink cable kits installed inside Vestas turbines across the globe

 

Nexans has secured a two-year ...

GE Renewable Energy to Supply Europe's Largest Onshore Wind Farm
List_ge_20210216Luxcara and GE Renewable Energy have announced an agreement to deliver 753 MW of onshore wind capacity with the Önusberget wind farm in northern Sweden.

Luxcara and GE Renewable Energy ...

Nexans: Electrifying Africa
List_nexans_20210216Nexans has brought electricity to 35 rural communities across Côte d'Ivoire

Nexans has brought electricity to 35 rural communities across Côte d'Ivoire by delivering a turnkey, ready-to-use power infrastructure ...

Antaris Small Wind Turbine Installed in France
List_braun_20210215Another one of BRAUN Windturbinen's small wind turbines has been installed in northern France

In France, a hub height of 12m is not subject to any procedures. The mast is moved via ...

 INDUSTRY NEWS
Repsol Signs PPA for South American Wind Farm
U.S. to Fund Clean Energy Technology Research Projects
SeaTwirl Turbine Wins Japanese Patent
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