United States’ Largest Offshore Wind Farm Gets Green Light
Jennifer Runyon | January 26, 2017 New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is pursing the state’s 50 percent renewable by 2030 goal with vigor.
This Week in Washington: The President and Congress Set to Move on Environmental Regulation
Joel B. Stronberg | January 31, 2017 The week promises to see two important actions impacting federal environmental regulation.
Fraunhofer IWES Announce New Test Bench for Offshore Wind Turbines
William Steel | January 26, 2017 A state of the art test platform is being established at the Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy…
Scandinavian Offshore Wind Nixed Due to Russian Threat
Susan Kraemer | January 26, 2017 While the EU has seen a remarkable increase in offshore wind, a Swedish project in the Baltic Sea…
The Year of Climate Finance: 2017 Outlook
Jennifer Delony | January 31, 2017 In the year following the signing of the Paris Agreement in 2015, there was an increased interest in building a…
Infrastructure to Transmit Wind Power Reportedly On Trump’s Priority List
Rod Walton | January 26, 2017 A long planned high voltage, direct current transmission line to move wind energy from western Oklahoma…
China to Invest $100 billion in Wind Power Projects by 2020
Liu Yuanyuan | January 24, 2017 China will invest more than 700 billion yuan (approx. US$100 billion) in wind power facilities from 2016 to 2020…
Report: US Solar, Wind Jobs Up; Geothermal Jobs Down
Renewable Energy World Editors | January 23, 2017 From 2Q15 to 1Q16, U.S. wind power jobs increased 32 percent and solar jobs increased 25 percent, while geothermal…
Italy to Venture into Offshore Wind
William Steel | January 20, 2017 Shortly before the end of 2016, Italy concluded a renewable energy auction that will see some 870 MW of capacity…
Masdar Takes Stake in UK Floating Wind Farm Project
Kelvin Ross | January 20, 2017 Abu Dhabi clean energy company Masdar has acquired a 25 percent stake in Statoil’s floating wind farm project…