US Senator Joe Manchin (West Virginia) may be a member of the Democrats, but his election campaign is - among others - financed by the coal industry. His persistent veto of Joe Biden's 'Build Back Better' infrastructure package has kept US politics on tenterhooks for months. Has Manchin thus destroyed the president's domestic agenda?

Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia is taking a key role in the vote on US President Joe Biden's multi-billion dollar infrastructure package. The majority in the Senate is tight, with the Democrats needing every vote to get their laws passed. If one of the senators steps out of line, it causes gridlock.

This is what happened shortly before Christmas when, after months of negotiations, the 'Build Back Better' programme ...

Getting a permit for an onshore wind farm now takes on average five years because of structural bottlenecks.

“Italy is Europe’s prime example for how bad permitting leads to low ...

The projects bring together leading academic institutes, industry partners, and not-for-profits to tackle key areas in our national efforts to transition to a low carbon society.

The projects ...

Global investment in the energy transition totaled $755 billion in 2021 – a new record – off the back of rising climate ambition and policy action from countries around the world, says ...

During recent trials at ORE Catapult’s National Renewable Energy Centre in Blyth, the drones demonstrated their ability to hover autonomously and manoeuvre close to vertically ...

Vattenfall has announced to paint one of the turbine blades of seven wind turbines in Dutch Eemshaven black.

Seven wind turbines in Dutch Eemshaven will have one of the turbine blades painted black. The purpose is ...

Jochen Eickholt, Siemens Energy executive, appointed new CEO effective March 1.

Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy has appointed Jochen Eickholt, a member of the executive board at Siemens Energy as its Chief ...

The R&D projects will focus on the production of large castings and autonomous inspection of turbines.

GE Renewable Energy and GE Research were selected for two awards from the ...

The Symposium Vibration of Wind Turbines, which will take place on May 5 and 6, 2022 in Hamburg, covers the complete spectrum of vibrations of wind turbines and includes an interesting session about the mechanism of noise generation and its...

In 2021, 142 hydrogen refuelling stations went into operation worldwide, again more than ever before.

In 2021, 142 hydrogen refuelling stations went into operation worldwide, again more than ...

As part of the contract, Statkraft will supply 54.4 GWh of wind power annually in the period from January 2022 to December 2023 from six of its own wind farms.

As part of the contract, Statkraft will supply 54.4 GWh ...

The Planner, constructor and operator of the wind farms which have a capacity of 45 MW in total is the Danish green energy developer European Energy.

The five wind farms are located in ...

The Polish subsidiary of Deutsche Windtechnik has signed a 15-year contract to provide full-services to the Scieki wind farm.

Detailed negotiations result in a customised service ...

On January 1, 2022, wpd windmanager GmbH & Co. KG takes over the management of the wind farm Teltow II.

And the tender goes to…? wpd windmanager. On January 1, ...

Shell has started operations in one of the world’s largest hydrogen electrolysers in China. The production of green hydrogen is powered by onshore wind.

One of the world’s largest ...

wpd offshore is well prepared to advance all necessary steps and processes in order to make Romania the first country to install offshore wind farms in the Black Sea

As a pacesetter for Romanian offshore wind energy, wpd ...

Under the motto "Portugal Makes Sense", companies from Portugal will display products and solutions for digital transformation, energy transition and reliable supply chains and demonstrate to German companies why it makes sense to...