100 percent renewable energy in Europe isn't possible? It is - and Iceland shows how it can be done. The sparsely populated island just below the Arctic Circle gets its energy entirely from hydropower and geothermal energy. But now voices are growing louder calling for the use of another energy source: wind power.

Iceland is doing what everyone dreams of in these times of climate change: getting 100 percent of its electricity from renewable sources. Nearly 70 percent of the energy is covered by hydropower, and another 30 percent by geothermal energy. The country is also a role model when it comes to heating buildings: 90 percent of the energy for this comes from geothermal energy. What is striking is that the largest share of electricity - just under 80 percent - is consumed by industry, while only ...

The American Clean Power Association (ACP) released its comprehensive Clean Power Annual Market Report for 2022 and its Clean Power Quarterly Market Report for Q1 2023.

• 11% growth in the now nearly 140 gigawatt (GW) development...

All the countries in the region still have work to do on the simplification of permitting, notably to implement the new EU rule on this.

Central and Eastern Europe has only 7% of ...

Renewable energy producer Pattern Energy announced it has entered an agreement for the sale of its directly owned Japanese assets and 100% of its interest in its affiliate in Japan, Green Power Investment Corp. (GPI), to NTT Anode Energy and JERA. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Since Pattern acquired majority ownership in 2015, GPI has grown into one of the largest independent renewable platforms in Japan with a team of over 200 professionals. Pattern’s directly owned assets include the wind farms Sumita Tono Wind, Ishikari ...

On behalf of the German Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH), Fugro will carry out geophysical surveys of two offshore wind farm areas in the German exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the North Sea.

In collaboration with the German Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems IWES, Fugro's geospatial data will be integrated with IWES ultra-high resolution multichannel seismic data (UHR MCS) and used by BSH to develop geological models of offshore sites and support subsequent geotechnical investigations, according ...

Cerulean Winds has revealed plans to build the North Sea Renewables Grid (NSRG), an offshore integrated green power and transmission system, powered by floating wind, that oil and gas platforms will plug into for clean power.

Cerulean and partner Frontier Power International want to deploy floating offshore wind farms in the North Sea to produce multiple GW of electricity. The scale and location close together in the Central North Sea will enable a new basin-wide offshore transmission system to be constructed which oil and ...

The EGL 1 connection requires 400 km of submarine cables for a capacity of 2 GW

Prysmian Group, world leader in the energy and telecom cable systems industry, has received the ...

Bernardo Bandeira, Global eCommerce Leader shared, “Our new platform makes it even easier and quicker to order the parts that you need— a one stop shop that build on our world ...

GE Vernova will assemble critical components for 6.1-158 onshore wind turbine in Schenectady, including the machine head, hub and drive train to help meet demand in the US. ...

Rahul Ghai will become Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of GE effective September 1, 2023, succeeding Carolina Dybeck Happe.

GE (NYSE: GE) today announced a Chief Financial Officer transition. Rahul Ghai will ...

AkzoNobel has announced the launch of a €500 million bond with ten-year maturity and coupon of 4.0%.

The bond issue extends the duration of the company’s overall bond portfolio. The bond will be issued by Akzo Nobel ...

Net operating revenues rose to NOK 24.5 billion from NOK 22.1 billion in Q1 2022, while underlying EBIT increased to NOK 18.5 billion (NOK 18.0 billion), Statkraft’s second strongest quarter ever.

• Net operating revenues rose to NOK 24.5...

The green electricity is generated in six solar parks and one wind farm from Statkraft's renewable energy portfolio.

The green electricity is generated in six solar parks and one wind farm from Statkraft's ...

GORIO is one of the projects selected and supported by CEF Energy under the call for preparatory studies for cross-border renewable energy (CB RES) projects launched in 2021.

Supported ...

The fourteen 2GW converter stations will be installed in the Dutch and German parts of the North Sea.

The fourteen 2GW converter stations will be installed in the Dutch and German parts of the North Sea. The framework ...

TGS and KONGSBERG have today announced a strategic collaboration to jointly develop integrated data and digital solutions for the offshore wind industry.

According to ...

WindEurope CEO Giles Dickson said: “Floating wind is advancing at a rapid pace. The demo projects have worked. Now is the time to scale-up to large projects."

Nearly all of Europe’s existing offshore wind is ...

Ocean Wind LLC proposes to construct up to 98 wind turbines and up to three offshore substations within its lease area.

“BOEM continues to make progress towards a ...

By the end of the year, the Netherlands will have 4.7 GW of offshore wind farm capacity operating in the Dutch North Sea.

Emelie de Wagt, senior offshore wind policy officer at the Ministry of Economic Affairs and ...

The American Clean Power Association (ACP) praised a Massachusetts federal judge for her ruling yesterday that resoundingly upheld key federal approvals for the Vineyard Wind 1 offshore wind farm currently under construction...

Bayer, a global enterprise with core competencies in the life science fields of health care and nutrition, and Cat Creek Energy (CCE), a renewable energy Independent Power Producer, today announced a long-term Structured Renewable Energy Credit...

China plans to build XXXL monopiles in the future.

Our investment in the mega facility demonstrates CWHI’s ongoing commitment to the offshore wind sectors growing demand. The new facility has an annual ...