There are only a few weeks left until the federal elections in Germany. The election campaign is raging, and the parties are taking every opportunity to promote their theses. One constantly recurring narrative is that of the Greens and their candidate Annalena Baerbock: their plans to stop climate change are far too expensive. But is that really true?

The thesis is: If everything remains as it is now, there would be no need to charge taxpayers additional money for environmental protection measures. On the other hand, the election program of the Greens with the many reconstruction measures for the energy transition and against climate change is not financeable and characterized by prohibitions, thus an interference into citizens' liberties and a grip into ...

A total of 1.85 GW of new auctioned capacity was announced globally during Q2 2021, of which 250 MW stands unawarded as of September 2021.

The auction schedule was severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic in ...

It's a grim outlook that highlights the global pandemic as a “lost opportunity” for speeding up the energy transition.

DNV’s Energy Transition Outlook, now in its fifth year and launched two months before COP26 takes place ...

The €45 million marine energy project - European SCalable Offshore Renewable Energy Sources (EU-SCORES) - will pave the way for bankable hybrid offshore parks across Europe by ...

A sustainable product will soon celebrate its German premiere at the Kaskasi offshore wind farm off the coast of Heligoland: several of the installed turbines have recyclable rotor blades.

Turbine manufacturer Siemens Gamesa and developer RWE will test a new product at the German offshore wind farm Kaskasi. Several of the 38 wind turbines in total will be equipped with RecyclableBlade, the world's first recyclable rotor blades for commercial use at sea. This technology makes it possible to separate the materials in the rotor blade at the end of its service ...

Danish Crown Prince Frederik and the Danish Minister for Industry, Economics and Finance, Simon Kollerup, inaugurated Kriegers Flak offshore wind farm yesterday.

Kriegers Flak offshore wind farm has an installed capacity of 604 MW and produces enough electricity to cover the annual consumption of about 600,000 Danish households. The wind farm is located in the Baltic Sea, 15 to 40 kilometres off the Danish coast, and covers a total area of 132 km².

"With today's opening of the wind farm, we are a big ...

Tilt Renewables has announced that construction of the Rye Park Wind Farm, the to date largest OWF in New South Wales, Australia, will commence this year having achieved financial close.

The 396 MW Rye Park Wind Farm will create an estimated 250 direct jobs during the construction phase. When fully commissioned in 2024, the RPWF will be the largest operating wind farm in NSW and will be a key component of the growing PowAR renewable energy portfolio. PowAR, which completed the acquisition of Tilt Renewables’ Australian business ...

The Project aims to construct and operate an 300 MW offshore wind farm in Enoshima, Saikai City, Nagasaki Prefecture.

The Project aims to construct and operate offshore wind farms with a maximum output capacity of ...

The acquisition of Cooke Power Services will support market demand for transactional work and increase Deutsche Windtechnik’s MHI capabilities.

Deutsche Windtechnik US will ...

Using the international IEC 61400 standard as a basis, TÜV SÜD has developed a computer model enabling the impacts of such extreme wind situations on wind turbines to be simulated. ...

juwi is about to build two multi-megawatt-class wind turbines and a battery storage facility in Brandenburg.

A milestone project for the German energy transition will be built around 100 kilometers northeast of Berlin in the ...

Labkotec presents its ice detectors for rotor blades at the HUSUM Wind 2021 in Germany next week.

Labkotec ice detectors are designed for detecting icing conditions on the rotor blades. Ice detector systems improve ...

Prysmian Group, in consortium with Asso.subsea, has signed a contract for the development of an export submarine power cable system for the Gruissan floating offshore wind farm ...

In July 2021, GFW was fully merged with Deutsche Windtechnik, meaning that GFW has ceased to be an independent company.

Since this process is simply a transfer of operations, all ...

Statkraft Ventures is financing the further growth of the artificial intelligence company vialytics. ...

Besides operational management, energy consult will also provide additional services in the future.

 

Energy consult has ...