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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 [...]
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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.
Next wave of floating wind begins to build
In Recharge's Next wave of floating wind begins to build, Darius Snieckus writes about how first-generation designs will break the nascent market open globally, but will have competition from new-look concepts also angling at a [...]
The Jones Act in US Offshore Wind: Challenge or Opportunity?
The Jones Act in US Offshore Wind: Challenge or Opportunity? is OffshoreWind/.Biz's summary of the 4th Annual US Offshore Wind Conference and Exhibition held in Boston Park Plaza Hotel. It includes extensive quotes from Andy [...]
Our latest newsletter
Our latest newsletter is now available. This month, it includes an overview of the UK Offshore Wind Sector Deal and a reminder of our funding database. You can read our latest newsletter in full on [...]
Getting to 30 GW will require the right mood music
Getting to 30 GW will require the right mood music in Offshore Wind Journal quotes Alun Robert's blog on the UK Government's Offshore Wind Sector deal. You can read the article in full here: Getting [...]
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Accelerating offshore wind deployment
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 [...]
UK Offshore wind Sector Deal by Alun Roberts
In examining the UK’s Offshore Wind Sector Deal, published today, it’s worth first considering what each party – industry and government – would have wanted from the Deal. The government wanted high volume, low carbon [...]
My digitalisation obsession by Graham Gow
This year I will hit the dubious landmark of 25 years in the wind industry. Right from the very start I have been involved in creating software systems that managed and analysed data. My first [...]
End of life options for wind farms by Graham Gow
The increasing age of wind farm assets all over Europe poses some very significant questions to the industry, both technically and politically. Regardless of how far we think we have come in terms of wind [...]
Carbon reduction in 2019 by Hannah Collings
The progress of carbon reduction in 2019 will be heavily influenced by the UN’s COP24 that took place in Katowice, Poland in December 2018. The aim of the UN’s annual climate conference was to agree [...]