Chinese company Mingyang Smart Energy has announced plans to build the world’s largest offshore wind turbine, a unit with a rotor diameter of 280m that would be able to supply…

Azerbaijan, Georgia, Romania, and Hungary agreed Saturday to supply Europe with electricity generated by wind farms that Azerbaijan plans to build in the Caspian Sea. Supported by the EU, the…

Eiffage Métal, a unit of French construction group Eiffage, has won a contract to fabricate 62 heavy components for a 496MW wind farm planned off the western Atlantic coast of…

Thai energy company Bangchak Corporation (BCPG) will join forces with PowerChina International to build a $1.5bn wind farm in Laos. The two companies yesterday signed an agreement to cooperate on…

Spanish renewables company Capital Energy has submitted plans to Spanish authorities to build a €2bn floating wind farm off the northwest coast of Spain, Nova News reports. The so-called Breogán…

Finnish wood supplier Stora Enso has teamed up with German start-up Voodin Blades to develop wooden blades for wind turbines. They say it’ll be a sustainable alternative to conventional blades,…

Swedish renewable energy developer OX2 has applied to build a 5.5GW wind farm, the world’s largest single such development, between the islands of Gotland and Öland in the Baltic Sea.

Danish utility Ørsted has teamed up with the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) to test the effect of 3D-printed reefs on marine ecosystems in the Kattegat strait between Denmark and Sweden.

Rotterdam-headquartered marine contractor Van Oord and Japanese construction giant Kajima have been selected as the preferred “balance of plant” contractors for three offshore wind projects in Japan.