Offshore Wind Articles, Stories & News

World's Largest Offshore Wind Farm Could Send Power to Five Countries

01/10/18, 06:10 AM | Solar Power, Other Renewables | Offshore Wind

Lorraine Chow for EcoWatch: The vision is so massive that the developers will have to construct a 2.3-square-mile artificial island in the North Sea to support the 10,000-turbine complex.

Kennedys, Kochs help kill planned wind farm off Cape Cod

12/06/17, 05:59 AM | Solar Power, Other Renewables | Offshore Wind

Fox News: A plan to build scores of offshore, electricity-generating windmills within eyesight of the Kennedy compound and numerous other tony properties in one of Americas wealthiest, and most scenic areas, is officially dead in the water.

Industrializing Offshore Wind Energy Development

10/20/17, 06:00 AM | Solar Power, Other Renewables | Offshore Wind, research reports

University of Delaware: UD-led research team determines that constructing offshore wind turbines in port is the most cost effective method

Offshore wind farms have powerful advantage over land-based turbines, study finds

10/13/17, 05:47 AM | Solar Power, Other Renewables | Offshore Wind, research reports

Eli Kintisch for Science: Floating wind turbines at sea could create up to three times as much electricity as turbines on land, increasing the energy potential for a technology that has yet to be proven at scale.

Offshore Wind Farms Give New Possibilities to Renewable Energy

10/05/17, 09:08 AM | Solar Power, Other Renewables | Offshore Wind, Utility Wind | Emily Folk - Contributing Author

The United States has enough offshore wind resources to generate twice the amount of electricity used by the current population, or nearly 2,000 gigawatts annually.

World's First Offshore Wind Facility Completely Dismantled

09/08/17, 05:58 AM | Solar Power, Other Renewables | Offshore Wind

DONG Energy: Vindeby Offshore Wind Farm near Lolland in the south east of Denmark was constructed in 1991 as a demonstration project which was to prove whether it was possible to generate green power offshore.

World's first floating wind farm emerges off coast of Scotland

07/26/17, 06:11 AM | Solar Power, Other Renewables | Floating Wind, Offshore Wind

Roger Harrabin BBC environment analyst, Norway: The revolutionary technology will allow wind power to be harvested in waters too deep for the current conventional bottom-standing turbines.

2nd edition of the FWP Atlantic Forum, An immersive experience into the floating wind power

07/10/17, 06:03 AM | Solar Power | Offshore Wind

October 2nd & 3rd, 2017 in Saint-Nazaire / October 4th, 2017 in Lorient, France

Floating Wind Plan Could Finally Crack California's Offshore Market

07/03/17, 05:45 AM | Solar Power, Other Renewables | Offshore Wind

James Temple for MIT Technology Review: Falling prices, improving technology, and smart public policies are changing the calculations.

Can Offshore Wind Power Revive U.S. Ports?

06/20/17, 05:52 AM | Solar Power, Other Renewables | government policy, maintenance, Offshore Wind

Benjamin Storrow for Scientific American: Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey and Maryland are all eyeing up manufacturing and maintenance businesses that would support wind energy

Joining forces to reduce offshore downtime

06/05/17, 06:27 AM | Solar Power | Offshore Wind | Natural Power

Natural Power, Fred. Olsen Windcarrier and SubC Partner have joined forces to launch www.Offshorewindspect.com - a new force in offshore wind turbine inspections which brings together a market-leading cooperative that is dedicated to reducing downtime.

Six Things You Didn't Know About the Offshore Wind Power Sector

06/02/17, 06:00 AM | Solar Power, Other Renewables | Offshore Wind

Sonal Patel for Power Mag: The worlds offshore wind sector, which has been at near-standstill in the U.S. owing to high costs and technical limitations, is poised to see a fierce developmental gust that can be attributed to several factors.

LOC APPOINTED TO INVESTIGATE FLOATING OFFSHORE WIND LOGISTICS

06/01/17, 05:59 AM | Solar Power, Other Renewables | Offshore Wind

Leading international marine and engineering consultancy commissioned to report to Carbon Trust Floating Wind Joint Industry Project partners on the logistics and infrastructure of future floating offshore wind technologies

World's largest wind turbines may double in size before 2024

05/19/17, 05:50 AM | Solar Power, Other Renewables | Offshore Wind

Jillian Ambrose for Telegraph: The wind developer behind the worlds largest working wind turbines has said the size of its giant offshore blades, currently in UK waters, will double again within seven years.

America's first offshore wind farm just shut down a diesel plant

05/15/17, 05:47 AM | Solar Power, Other Renewables | grid, Offshore Wind

Bobby Magill, Grist: Americas first offshore wind farm just helped to shut down a small diesel-fired electric power plant on Block Island, Rhode Island.

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