The United States could generate 20% of its electricity from wind within 10 years, without requiring any additional land, according to Cornell University research published in Nature Scientific Reports. “The United States currently produces about 7% of its electricity from wind energy,” said Sara Pryor, professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. “This […]
Renewable energy statistics just keep topping each other. Solar power is getting cheaper. Battery storage capacity is getting better. And wind farms are getting bigger. 2019 saw the world’s biggest (at the time) offshore wind farm come online, as well as construction of the biggest offshore wind farm in the US off the coast of […]
Danish firm Vestas said Monday that it was aiming to produce “zero-waste” wind turbines by the year 2040. The wind turbine manufacturer explained that its goal would mean operating a value chain that produced no waste materials. This, it added in a statement, would be achieved through the introduction of a “circular economy approach” in […]
A floating wind farm off the coast of northern Portugal began transmitting electricity to the grid, a crucial step for a technology that could vastly increase the potential for offshore wind power.
Wind energy set a new record of 26.5% for December 2019’s generation in the UK. In 2010, Great Britain generated 75% of its electricity from coal and natural gas. But by the end of the decade, these fossil fuels accounted for just 40%, with coal generation collapsing from the decade’s peak of 41% in 2012 […]
All of the electricity generated by GE’s Haliade-X 12 MW prototype wind turbine at the port of Maasvlakte-Rotterdam in the Netherlands is to be bought by Dutch energy company Eneco. The prototype was said to have set a new world record this week by being the first wind turbine ever to generate 262 MWh of […]
Just three years ago five giant wind turbines in the waters off Block Island, Rhode Island, started spinning 30 MW of electricity to that tiny community of about a thousand residents. While it remains the only offshore wind farm in the U.S., that’s about to dramatically change.
Denmark is pursuing plans to build one or more artificial islands surrounded by offshore wind turbines with a capacity of 10 gigawatts, capable of supplying up to 10 million households, the climate and energy ministry has said.
Wind energy is on the up globally with 1000 GW likely to be in place soon. Longer term, if on-land and offshore sites get congested then there is the prospect of using airborne wind-energy devices or tethered kites that operate at high altitude.
The UK’s wind turbines reached peak levels the weekend, providing a shocking 38 per cent of electricity. Wind generation exceeded the 16GW mark for the first time on Sunday 8th December, it surpassed a record set earlier in the day, with 15.81GW mark. The wind is the largest electricity source on the UK grid, with […]