News Apple to add 650MW of renewable capacity across Europe In a bid to match the electricity European customers use to power their phones and computers, Apple says it will add 650MW solar and wind projects in Europe by 2030.…
News US judge halts Trump’s attack on Revolution Wind A judge in Washington, DC on Monday granted a preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration’s stop-work order against the nearly complete, 704MW Revolution Wind scheme being built off the eastern…
News ‘Insane and illegal’: States sue over Trump’s halting of Revolution Wind Last month, the Trump administration halted the nearly complete, 704MW Revolution Wind offshore wind project. Now, its developer and two states are suing to overturn what they say is an…
News DNV certifies Bouygues’ floating turbine foundation International certification body DNV has issued a Statement of Compliance for Bouygues Travaux Publics’ OO-Star concrete floating wind-turbine foundation. Bouygues said the certification will help commercialise the concept, which secured…
News Morocco to build Africa’s first offshore windfarm near its ‘windy city’ Morocco has become the first country in Africa to unveil an offshore wind project. The farm, which was announced during a UN conference in Nice last week, will have a…
News Trump administration makes U-turn on New York’s $5bn Empire Wind scheme Donald Trump’s assault on offshore wind appeared to falter Monday when, barely a month after his administration ordered Norwegian energy firm Equinor to stop work immediately on its 810MW Empire…
Projects Glamox lights up gigantic converter platform for North Sea wind Oslo-headquartered lighting firm Glamox is lighting up a giant offshore platform that will convert electricity from a 900MW wind-power scheme in the North Sea some 100km off the German coast.…
News Joy as Norway opens bidding for 1.5GW of floating wind Norway today invited bids for three floating offshore wind farms off Utsira in Rogaland county, southwestern Norway, where the water is too deep for fixed-base turbines. The developments are expected…
Perspectives Offshore wind provides jobs, investment and clean power. Trump is killing it On April 16th, 2025, the Trump administration conducted a targeted attack on offshore wind in the US. The Bureau of Ocean Energy management (BOEM) issued a formal and meticulously worded…
News Sany wins breakthrough offshore order with 10MW turbine Chinese equipment maker Sany has entered the offshore wind market with a “breakthrough” order to supply the Guangdong Energy Group’s Jieyang Shibeishan project, Energy Global website reports. The company has…
News Acciona makes surfboards from wind turbine blades Spain’s Acciona has created surfboards from old wind turbine blades. The company worked with Australian professional surfer Josh Kerr and his surfboard brand Draft Surf for the initial range of…
News Europe’s largest offshore wind farm to be built in Baltic Sea Poland’s largest utility has arranged funding for its Baltica 2 offshore wind farm. Together with Baltica 3, it will be able to generate as much as 1.5GW, making them the…
News Trump halts new offshore wind schemes on first day Amid a blizzard of executive orders issued on Monday after his inauguration, US President Donald Trump moved to halt the development of offshore wind power by temporarily suspending the sale…
News Far-right German party says it will tear down ‘windmills of shame’ The leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party says she will tear down wind turbines if she becomes chancellor, Bloomberg reports. Alice Weidel called them “windmills of shame”…
News Rosatom offers to build nuclear power plant in Vietnam Russian nuclear engineer Rosatom has offered to build two VVER-1200 reactors in Vietnam, and help with wind and battery projects, the Interfax agency reports. Chief executive Alexei Likhachev told journalists…
News Funding secured for $5bn wind farm off coast of New York City Norwegian energy company Equinor has secured $3bn in project financing for its project to build a wind farm off the coast of New York City. The Empire Wind 1 scheme…
News Engineering contracts awarded for UK’s first floating wind farm The developers of the 560MW “Green Volt” floating wind farm in the UK has awarded front-end engineering and design contracts to two engineering consortia. One went to a team of…
News EU bank lends €1bn for green power schemes in ‘empty Spain’ The European Investment Bank (EIB) will lend Spanish utility Naturgy €1bn to increase renewable power generation by 2.3GW, enough to power over a million homes. Naturgy will use the money…