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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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”…

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…

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…

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…

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…

A division of Russian engineer Rosatom has begun work on a 300MW wind farm in the Republic of Dagestan in the northern Caucasus. The project will be carried out in…

Award-winning British actor Idris Elba aims to develop a wind farm in Sierra Leone with UK utility Octopus Energy. Octopus said on Tuesday it had submitted detailed plans to the…

Sweden has vetoed the construction of 13 offshore wind farms in the Baltic Sea, saying they could impede military operations. The rejected farms together would have had around 30GW of…

The African Development Bank (AfDB) is to loan $54m towards meeting the $225m cost of Mozambique’s first wind farm. Funding is also being supplied by the Sustainable Energy Fund for…

The Danish Energy Agency has approved construction for German utility RWE’s 1.1GW Thor offshore wind farm, clearing the way for work to start in the spring. The plan is to…