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Our July 2019 newsletter is now available
Our July 2019 newsletter is now available, featuring our team's views on the hot topics from RenewableUK's Global Offshore Wind conference held in London during June. It explains the launch of the online version of [...]
Celebrating strong role for onshore wind
In The Inverness Courier's VIEWPOINT: Celebrating strong role for onshore wind, Neil Douglas's presentation to the Scottish Renewable's Onshore Wind Conference & Exhibition. It references Neil's talk as being in tune with one of the [...]
Offshore wind turbines are coming to the Jersey Shore
Offshore wind turbines are coming to the Jersey Shore in WHYY mentions our estimate that the industry could create the equivalent of 500,000 years of full-time employment over three decades from our nationwide, from our [...]
Ten Years On: Whitelee Windfarm is ‘National Success Story’
Friday 7 June 2018 A decade of economic, environmental and social benefits A decade on from the opening of the UK’s largest onshore windfarm, new research shows it has generated enough clean, green energy to [...]
Our latest newsletter
Our latest newsletter is now available, featuring stories on the latest US NOWRDC research solicitation, maximising your onshore wind asset performance and more! You can read the newsletter in full here.
Engie and EDP offshore wind JV eyes Japan and Korea
In Recharge's article Engie and EDP offshore wind JV eyes Japan and Korea, reports on the proposed joint venture between Engie and EDP to target emerging Asian markets. It includes the following quote from Andy [...]
Views
Five factors behind the most successful offshore wind market so far by Bruce Valpy
At the Global Offshore Wind conference in London last week, I was reminded that we as a team now have so much history under our belts, having been at the heart of the world’s most [...]
EU DemoWind projects demonstrating cost reduction innovations
At RenewableUK’s Global Offshore Wind, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy showcased innovations funded by the €100 million DemoWind project. Among the completed projects presented were: FSFound - the development and demonstration of [...]
Sector Deal targets and a post-subsidy world by Alun Roberts
There were lots of questions occupying the minds of those attending Renewable UK's Global Offshore Wind in London. Two of these are were: What will the UK Government's Sector Deal mean for me? How might [...]
Geospatial analysis helps to find answers blowing in the wind by Kate Freeman
Some scenarios from the European Commission’s decarbonisation strategy suggest that Europe needs up to 450GW of offshore wind by 2050. WindEurope has asked BVGA to examine what is required for Europe to deliver and make [...]
Accelerating offshore wind deployment by Kate Freeman
It was great to be part of the session “'Offshore Wind - Panel: The Way Forward” at the All-Energy conference in Glasgow on 14 May. The session included a lively discussion on the recently published [...]
LC-EMp – a new metric for beyond LCOE by Giles Hundleby
Last year, we introduced the rationale for going beyond LCOE , to help optimise wind turbines and wind farms in a world where subsidies have gone and income comes (mostly) from merchant sales at the [...]