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Biden Administration sets new floating offshore wind goal of 15 GW by 2035

One good turn deserves another – setting the standard for wind energy maintenance

Plugging offshore wind power into our energy grid

How lidar powers wind energy in offshore environments

How engineering simulation software can increase offshore wind adoption

The prioritization of innovation over process is hampering manufacturing

Wind power is providing more than 9% of total U.S. electricity

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Ohio grants permit for six-turbine project in Lake Erie, 10 miles off the shore of Cleveland

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Siemens Gamesa launches recyclable wind turbine blade for onshore projects

Siemens Gamesa is launching its RecyclableBlade for onshore wind power projects. This milestone is set to propel the activities that make wind energy even more sustainable, creating a fully circular sector. The Siemens Gamesa RecyclableBlade for offshore was brought to market in only 10 months: launched in September 2021 and installed at RWE’s Kaskasi project…

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By Conor Wilkinson, EMEA Commercial Brand Manager, ExxonMobil Fuels & Lubricants Energy security and sustainability are headline topics – soaring gas and electricity prices and growing concerns about climate change have guaranteed that. Part of the answer is an increased focus on wind power; as a result, it is significantly growing in importance as part…

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Siemens Gamesa launches recyclable wind turbine blade for onshore projects

Siemens Gamesa is launching its RecyclableBlade for onshore wind power projects. This milestone is set to propel the activities that make wind energy even more sustainable, creating a fully circular sector. The Siemens Gamesa RecyclableBlade for offshore was brought to market in only 10 months: launched in September 2021 and installed at RWE’s Kaskasi project…

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Biden Administration sets new floating offshore wind goal of 15 GW by 2035

The Biden-Harris Administration is launching coordinated actions to develop new floating offshore wind platforms, an emerging clean energy technology that will help power the United States. In tandem with President Joe Biden’s economic and clean energy agenda, these actions will create jobs, lower energy costs for families and strengthen U.S. energy security. Biden set a…

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Maryland Energy Administration offers grant funding for offshore wind workforce development

The Maryland Energy Administration (MEA) made an additional announcement detailing $800,000 of available funding for the Fiscal Year 2023 Maryland Offshore Wind Workforce Training Grant Program, a competitive grant program that assists new or existing workforce training centers entering the offshore wind supply chain and workforce. State grant funds are provided to awardees to offset…

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GE supplying turbines for 200-MW South Dakota wind project

GE Renewable Energy is providing 71 of its latest generation 2.8-127 onshore wind turbines for Scout Clean Energy‘s 200-MW Sweetland Wind Project in Hand County, South Dakota. The project is owned and operated by Scout. “We are excited to enter into yet another major turbine purchase agreement with GE Renewable Energy for Sweetland Wind Farm,”…

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Denmark’s CNC Onsite to offer onsite wind turbine blade root repairs

Blade root damage to older wind turbines previously could only be repaired at the manufacturing site, requiring expensive logistics and long downtime, which often left operators with no choice but to purchase a new blade or scrap the entire turbine. With its new portable tool developed to efficiently replace damaged inserts in blade roots, Danish…

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Plugging offshore wind power into our energy grid

By Ralph Kurth, Senior Principal, Energy; and John Crowther, Senior Principal, Environmental Services; Stantec With President Joe Biden setting a 30-GW offshore wind goal by 2030 for the United States, the industry is ready to take off. This massive development is a very ambitious goal that will require detailed engineering and planning. One thing that…

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How lidar powers wind energy in offshore environments

By Matthieu Boquet, head of market and offering, wind energy, Vaisala Government organizations around the globe are increasingly implementing policies and programs aimed at increasing the number of wind turbines and the amount of power generated from wind energy. To meet this demand, there is continued innovations in the design, development, performance testing, operations and…

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Vestas 15-MW prototype nacelle readied for testing

Vestas has completed a 15-MW prototype nacelle in Denmark and is readying it for testing. The completion of the V236-15.0 MW prototype nacelle at the factory in Lindø, port of Odense, is the culmination of the dedicated efforts of a wide range of Vestas teams. ”Colleagues across the Vestas value chain have worked very hard and collaborated closely to…

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The prioritization of innovation over process is hampering manufacturing

By James Montgomery, VP of Solutions, Andea A deep disconnect between R&D and manufacturing is jeopardizing efforts to increase speed to market and achieve economies of scale for complex new technologies while harming safety and sustainability standards. The hand-off from product design and development to production creates significant risks as engineers prep the shopfloor to…

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Industry leaders to discuss floating offshore wind at RE:WIND 2022

International Wind Congress is taking place in Berlin, Germany, on November 7-8, 2022. RE:WIND 2022 gathers developers, operators, EPC(I)s and electricity TSO to network, build partnerships, find new leads, and to influence the future development. The Congress brings together key clean energy players to discuss the latest trends of the industry and the potential for…

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Wind power is providing more than 9% of total U.S. electricity

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released three reports Tuesday showing that wind power remains one of America’s fastest-growing energy sources and a generator of high-quality jobs. Wind power accounted for 32% of U.S. energy capacity growth in 2021, employs 120,000 Americans and now provides enough energy to power 40 million American homes. “These reports…

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224-MW Iowa wind project completes financing and nears operations

Financing has closed on Apex Clean Energy‘s 224-MW Great Pathfinder Wind project following a tax equity commitment from Bank of America. Great Pathfinder Wind, located in Boone and Hamilton Counties, Iowa, is currently under construction and is expected to begin operations in Q4 2022. Apex is providing construction management services for the project and IEA…

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California sets goal of 5 GW of offshore wind by 2030

The California Energy Commission (CEC) has adopted a report establishing offshore wind goals and moving the state one step closer to development of the clean energy resource off California’s coast. Preliminary findings in the report set planning goals of 2,000 to 5,000 MW of offshore wind by 2030 and 25,000 MW by 2045. California is…

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Ohio grants permit for six-turbine project in Lake Erie, 10 miles off the shore of Cleveland

Article from Court News Ohio The Supreme Court of Ohio has approved the permit to construct North America’s first freshwater offshore wind-powered electric-generation facility. In a 6-1 decision, the Supreme Court found the Ohio Power Siting Board appropriately granted a certificate of environmental compatibility and public need to Icebreaker Windpower. The company proposes to construct…

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Evergy purchases 199-MW Oklahoma wind farm for $250 million

Evergy and a partnership between Scout Clean Energy and Elawan Energy announced today that Evergy will purchase the 199-MW Persimmon Creek Wind Farm in western Oklahoma for about $250 million. The renewable energy from this wind farm will serve customers in the Evergy Missouri West service area. “Evergy continues to tap into the Midwest’s affordable…

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Improving offshore weather forecasting with machine learning

By Intissar Keghouche, DELFI lead, StormGeo “All models are wrong, but some are useful,” the statistician George Box wrote in 1976. This familiar aphorism sheds light on the fact that models cannot capture the complexities of the real world. Whether we use models to study financial market mechanisms, predict optimal healthcare strategies or, for any…

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Avangrid to be O&M lead on Vineyard Wind 1 offshore project

Avangrid has entered into an operations and management agreement for Vineyard Wind 1, an 800-MW offshore wind project owned in a 50-50 joint venture between Avangrid and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, which is currently under construction off the coast of Massachusetts. “Avangrid is proud to pioneer the offshore wind industry in the United States, and by…

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BladeBUG reveals new blade-inspecting robot

BladeBUG has revealed its long-awaited new-look concept robot, which for the first time has been covered in an outer shell. More robust and agile than ever before, the latest BladeBUG robot has a waterproof covering, which protects it from harsh elements when carrying out essential inspection and maintenance of wind turbines. A six-legged crawling robot,…

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