A wind project off Rhode Island is more than 80 percent completed. Trump just stopped it in its tracks.| The American Prospect
The title of this blog post comes from this article, where the author originally humorously tagged Donald Trump as a degrowth activist because of his opposition to renewables, his tariffs to constrain trade, and the potential economic impacts of those policies. Except now it’s not so humorous. Turns out that having the federal government capriciously … Continue reading "“Degrowth Donald”"| Legal Planet
Spanish construction firm GES (Global Energy Services) has secured a contract to build a roughly 700MW solar-wind-storage hybrid project in Chile.| PV Tech
Certainty – both in long-term policy planning and revenue mechanisms – is now the defining currency of offshore wind investment, write contributors David Vallès Vallès and Gilberto Regal.| Offshore Wind Projects: Planning, Construction & Regulations
Danish wind farm developer Orsted says the Revolution Wind project is about 80% complete, with 45 out of its 65 turbines already installed.| Factor This™
Funding for projects in 11 states was rescinded, including $435 million for a floating wind farm in Northern California and $47 million to boost an offshore wind project in Maryland that the Interior Department has pledged to cancel.| Renewable Energy Business & Market Trends
One utility leader points to private developers and the Trump tax bill. But advocates say utilities share some of the blame.| Northern Journal
The Treasury Department has issued new guidance that will determine whether and how developers can still access tax credits for wind and solar projects.| Factor This™
Mingyang Smart Energy, maker of the world's largest wind turbines, has just unveiled its latest gigantic floating offshore wind turbine creation. The OceanX is a two-headed, deep-water behemoth capable of generating during Cat 5 hurricanes.| New Atlas
A new report shows how local climate activism leads to 'remarkable' gains, including reduced emissions and lower costs.| Factor This™
LS Power is adding 1.7 gigawatts of gross onshore wind capacity to its portfolio via 10 projects formerly owned by bp Wind Energy.| Factor This™
The Bay State faces a statutory deadline: It must lock in contracts for at least 5,600 megawatts of offshore wind energy by 2027.| Offshore Wind Projects: Planning, Construction & Regulations
Side agreements with the House Freedom Caucus will make most clean-energy projects unviable and leave the U.S. with not enough power to meet demand.| The American Prospect
Sixteen years of the expensive disaster of non-performing, out of phase with demand wind power don't seem to matter.| Wind Concerns Ontario
Some experts argue that elements of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act will lead to increased costs for consumers and cede America’s position in the clean energy transition.| Factor This™
President Donald Trump expressed his disdain for wind power during a meeting with his Cabinet recently, calling it an expensive form of energy that “smart” countries don't use.| Factor This™
By Anton Lang ~ This series of posts continues the data collection and recording for wind power generation in Australia over the last five years. Each Monday, the Long Term Capacity Factor percenta…| PA Pundits International
By Anton Lang ~ This series of posts continues the data collection and recording for wind power generation in Australia over the last five years. Each Monday, the Long Term Capacity Factor percenta…| PA Pundits International
A federal judge in Massachusetts said he plans to deny a motion by the Trump administration to dismiss a lawsuit over its blocking of wind energy projects, siding with a coalition of state attorneys general.| Factor This™
By Paul Driessen ~ Updated Man of La Mancha lyrics could read: “To dream the impossible dream of clean, green, net-zero electricity, to fight the unbeatable foe of manmade climate cataclysms, we mu…| PA Pundits International
Wind power: get past the hype. Citizens are aware that they need their municipal elected officials to be informed, and aware of community wishes as regards industrial power projects.| Wind Concerns Ontario
By David Wojick, Ph.D. ~ I have the honor and pleasure of co-signing a letter to the U.S. Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy, asking him to terminate a half billion dollar grant made by the Bi…| PA Pundits International
2024: A Record Year for Wind Power| Internet Geography
By David Wojick, Ph.D. ~ Empire Wind is a big New York offshore wind project that is ready to start construction. The Trump administration stopped it about a month ago but has now unstopped it, sup…| PA Pundits International
By Anton Lang ~ This series of posts continues the data collection and recording for wind power generation in Australia over the last five years. Each Monday, the Long Term Capacity Factor percenta…| PA Pundits International
The Trump administration previously argued further review of the project was needed, implying the Biden administration rushed its approval.| Factor This™
By Anton Lang ~ This series of posts continues the data collection and recording for wind power generation in Australia over the last five years. Each Monday, the Long Term Capacity Factor percenta…| PA Pundits International
By Anton Lang ~ In the earlier Post, (at this link) I wrote that the intermittency problem with wind power generation was getting worse. I also included some background information on how and why I…| PA Pundits International
By Anton Lang ~ I look upon all of this as a failure of planning, and quite literally on a huge scale, the construction of Industrial Wind Plants in an area where they do not deliver power at the s…| PA Pundits International
The path of any documentary is rarely straight ... but we have made it to a nice basecamp: a trailer.| Vagabond Journey - Around The World Travel
RWE, one of the world's top offshore wind developers, has stopped work on its U.S. projects for now, citing uncertainty under President Trump.| Factor This™
Now that we've covered how to find your land, build your home, and keep things warm or cold in the previous article, let's get into the nitty gritty of| Insteading
New York City is one step closer to seeing its first offshore wind project connected to the grid.| Factor This™
By Kevin Mooney ~ Whales migrating up and down the East Coast are getting at least a temporary reprieve from offshore wind. So are property owners, homeowners, business owners, tourists, and anyone…| PA Pundits International
By David Wojick, Ph.D. ~ Bringing offshore wind under control will be a complex process under administrative law, which few people know much about. As a result there is likely to be a lot of confus…| PA Pundits International
Their legality may be challenged, but climate advocates are preparing for the worst.| Factor This™
Seeking power for AI data centers, major tech companies have contrasting views on the best way to mitigate their environmental impact.| Factor This™
New technology that enables underwater robots to work stably at sea has been developed at the University of Edinburgh.| Factor This™
Editor's Note: It is my pleasure to announce that noted industry commentator Fred Lyon will be sharing his views on the power industry in a periodic column in Power Engineering titled Power Points.| Factor This™
With a contracted capacity of 810 MW, Empire Wind 1 is poised to be the first offshore wind project to connect to the New York City grid.| Factor This™
The project seems to have come to a halt after developers failed to secure a contract with Connecticut for 400 MW of its generation capacity.| Factor This™
With only a handful of options globally, the project's developer, Invenergy, has struggled to find a turbine blade supplier.| Factor This™
President-elect Donald Trump has promised to halt offshore wind projects ‘on Day 1.’| Factor This™
The CEO of TotalEnergies says he has decided to put the Attentive Energy project on pause, at least in part due to Trump's anti-wind stance.| Factor This™
By Anton Lang ~ This series of posts continues the data collection and recording for wind power generation in Australia over the last five years. Each Monday, the Long Term Capacity Factor percenta…| PA Pundits International
GE Vernova began the probe in response to a July incident, in which a suspected “manufacturing deviation” led to a turbine blade breaking.| Factor This™
After little interest in wind lease auctions earlier this year, two companies have submitted plans to develop large wind farms in the Gulf.| Factor This™
A report warns of potential negative effects for the North Atlantic right whale.| Factor This™
Storage and timed release of electricity through the use of large-scale energy storage systems could reduce how much energy we waste.| Factor This™
The majority of voters supported the ballot measure that would devote dollars to undertakings such as barrier island restoration and wetlands rebuilding.| Factor This™
Ørsted has reassessed risks associated with Revolution Wind after running into an issue installing an offshore substation monopile.| Factor This™
When MISO inevitably opens a new queue window, the volume of pending and new projects will likely overwhelm the system once again.| Factor This™
Construction remains on-budget and on schedule to be complete in late 2026, Dominion said, and the project is now 43% complete.| Factor This™
The company argues that extending the 6-mile buffer currently proposed for any future WEAs off the coast of Virginia is “vitally important.”| Factor This™
The kickoff to the years-long process of creating an “offshore wind energy roadmap” for Oregon comes in the wake of a federal pause on efforts to advance offshore wind projects at two sites near Brookings and Coos Bay following opposition from coastal communities, tribes and the fishing industry and a call from Gov. Tina Kotek for the federal government to pause its plans and include more state participation in the project.| Renewable Energy World
EV manufacturer Rivian will power its fast-charging network with electricty generated by RWE's Champion Wind in Texas.| Renewable Energy World
Iowa-based Critical Materials Recycling was selected by the U.S. Department of Energy as one of six companies to receive a $500,000 cash prize and $100,000 in assistance from national laboratories.| Renewable Energy World
Duke Energy's Green Source Advantage (GSA) program provides large nonresidential customers the opportunity to offset their power purchases by securing renewable energy from new projects connected to the local Duke Energy grid.| Renewable Energy World
The data includes hourly solar, onshore, and offshore wind production published at a county granularity by aggregating 3 km data for the contiguous United States.| Renewable Energy World
As part of an initiative that reduced its debt by $21 billion, Dominion Energy has sold a non-controlling stake in the wind project offshore of Virginia Beach.| Renewable Energy World
Biden wants to establish a legacy for climate action that includes locking in a trajectory for reducing the nation's planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions.| Renewable Energy World
The number of suitable land parcels for renewable energy projects is "rapidly shrinking," and developers who delay risk being left with fewer, less desirable options, according to a new analysis from Paces, a data and software provider.| Renewable Energy World
Itron has released its 2024 Resourcefulness Insight Report, which explores the current trends and future expectations of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) on utility operations and strategies.| Renewable Energy World
Community Offshore Wind and Long Island Wind could generate more than 4.2 gigawatts of clean energy, putting a dent in New York's climate goals.| Renewable Energy World
Two recent BloombergNEF reports show wind and solar represented more than 90% of new power capacity additions in 2023.| Renewable Energy World
A promising market has a greenwashing problem, writes Michele Demers, CEO and founder of Boundless Impact.| Renewable Energy World
Nearly 80% of the plan's power generation over the next 15 years is carbon-free, including 3,400 MW of offshore wind, and 12,000 MW of solar.| Factor This™
The WindFloat Atlantic project – the world's first semi-submersible floating offshore wind farm, located off the coast of Portugal with only three turbines – has exceeded expectations over the last four years of operation, generating a total of 320 GWh of electricity. That's enough to power about…| New Atlas
It's all in the numbers: what is the real cost of wind and solar?| Wind Concerns Ontario
Wind and solar power generated 30% of EU's electricity during the first half of 2024. For the first time, 13 EU countries produced more electricity from wind and solar than from fossil fuels.| Warp News
China's combined capacity for wind and solar power has for the first time exceeded coal. Solar energy is expected to surpass coal as China's primary energy source by 2026. China has reduced new coal power projects and is focusing on phasing out smaller coal power plants.| Warp News
[Editor’s Note: Below is a guest post from Jesse Glicker LEED AP. Formerly, the Special Projects Coordinator at COOKFOX Architects, Jesse is currently a Masters Candidate at UCL’s Energy Institute studying Economics and Policy of Energy and the Environment.] There is no shortage of news headlines about upcoming changes in the U.S. With the presidential inauguration only just behind […] The post The Future for Renewables and Our Low Carbon Ecomony appeared first on Intercon.| Intercon
The Spanish government has approved nearly 300 renewable energy projects, totalling 28 GW, aiming for 81% renewable electricity mix by 2030 and creating 300,000 jobs.| A greener life, a greener world
Promises, promises for wind power from developers and ideological governments. Here's why it can't work.| Wind Concerns Ontario
In the Belgian North Sea, maintenance vessels are now able to tether to an automatic cable at a wind farm to get their batteries topped up. The innovative system is the first of its kind and a major step in keeping electric vessels as green as possible.| New Atlas
Good news for planet Earth, at least as far as the data shows for the United States. According to the US Energy Information Administration, in the five years from 2019 to 2024, in March and April specifically, electricity production using wind power has almost doubled, significantly outdoing…| New Atlas
A 2022 climate law was expected to set off a boom in renewable energy. So far, that’s only come partly true.| www.nytimes.com
While Australia debates the merits of going nuclear and frustration grows over the slower-than-needed switch to solar and wind power, China's renewables rollout is breaking all the records.| www.abc.net.au
April 2024 saw an increase in spot and futures electricity prices due to low wind output and an outage in Yallourn Unit 3. Read more here.| Leading Edge Energy
Fingrid is building a new 400kv main grid transmission line from Kalajoki to Jämsä to transmit electricity from major wind power production.| Smart Energy International
No one has ever proven that human emissions of carbon dioxide drive global warming. For more than two decades I have been asking scientists for this proof. If proven, it would also have to be shown that natural carbon dioxide emissions, 97% of the annual total, don’t drive global warming. This also has never been done. Furthermore, if had been proven that human emissions of carbon dioxide drive global warming, there would be endless citation of the dozen or so seminal scientific papers demo...| The Carbon Sense Coalition
With new power proposals coming including wind power, Ontario communities ask whether they want to be industrial power plants for cities. They want change. Now.| Wind Concerns Ontario
"Pulling no punches": citizens oppose use of prime agricultural land for wind turbines, and are concerned about inadequate setbacks for health and safety| Wind Concerns Ontario
We've already had reports of power developers looking for willing landowners to lease land for wind turbines, including activity currently in Oxford County.| Wind Concerns Ontario