Ahead of the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting in Washington on 12-13 October 2022, this letter has been sent to all G20 Heads of State and selected world leaders.

We, representing the leading companies in the global wind energy industry, recognise the efforts of the G20, under the Presidency of Indonesia in 2022, to address the current energy security and climate change crises impacting communities around the world. Tightened energy supply, spiking commodity prices, geopolitical conflict, rising inflation and dire events linked to climate change, such as drought, wildfires and flooding, have only underscored the need for strong collective international action to secure global economic growth, stability and...

Transmission grid operator Elia presented its plans for an energy island in the North Sea, which will be called the Princess Elisabeth Island.

In the presence of federal ministers Tinne Van der Straeten (Energy) and ...

At the same time overall electricity demand, production from coal-fired power plants, and emissions all surged in 2021.

The world’s wind and solar projects combined to meet more ...

In their newly founded Joint Research Centre they will also explore industrial waste energy recovery, energy conversion and storage and waste reduction and recycling.

Collaborative research through the joint centre will focus on industrial waste energy recovery, waste reduction and recycling, energy conversion and storage, low carbon processes, carbon capture and utilisation, and associated fundamental sciences and enabling technologies.
With over 140,000 employees globally and an annual turnover of £48 billion, ...

Making their wind farms more sustainable is one of the most important facts when it comes to using wooden turbine towers. RES now signed an agreement with Modvion, a Swedish manufacturer of such towers. The letter of intend says that Modvion will supply RES developed wind farms with up to 20 towers per year from 2026 to 2036.

The partnership means that RES Nordics will promote Modvion’s modular, wood-based, tower technology to their wind turbine suppliers. The goal is for turbine manufacturers to purchase wooden towers to use in RES developed wind farms. ...

There's no getting around XERVON Wind at the moment as was to be seen last week at WindEnergy 2022 in Hamburg: entering the exhibition grounds, visitors started their stroll with bags with the XERVON Wind logo.

Unusual for a company that is still quite young, as the provider for technical wind turbine services has only been around for one year. Nevertheless, it clearly left its "newcomer status behind", as managing director Maik Schlapmann emphasises.

The company can point to two ...

In the event of an emergency or planned maintenance/service, the turning of the fast shaft of the gearbox in a wind turbine must be braked safely or kept safe after stopping. For this purpose, a disc brake is positioned on the...

For small and medium-sized wind turbines, the blade tip brake used must be compact. This sits at the end of the rotor blades and leads to the aerodynamic deceleration of the rotor by adjusting the blade tip. This brake can be...

Energy and marine consultancy ABL Group has been awarded a contract to provide marine warranty survey (MWS) services on the Greenlink interconnector - a 500MW interconnector linking power networks in Ireland and Great Britain. ...

Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind has cosen Vestas to provide its V236-15.0 MW™ offshore wind turbines for its 1.5 GW offshore wind project in New Jersey.

Vestas will provide its industry leading V236-15.0 MW™ offshore wind ...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today released a long-term evaluation of the cybersecurity considerations associated with distributed energy resources (DER), such as...

Ark Energy has signed a PPA with Telstra, to supply the telco with renewable electricity from its share of the 923.4MW MacIntyre Wind Farm.

Located approximately 50 kilometres south-west of Warwick in Queensland, MacIntyre Wind ...

Anglo American and EDF Renewables announced their agreement to form a new jointly owned company, Envusa Energy, to develop wind and solar projects in South Africa.

In March 2022, the two ...