Australian wind energy enjoyed a record month in May as wind farms supplied 1,299 gigawatt-hours of renewable electricity to the country
World's top utilities hand over project keys, chart path for Ecuador's famously biodiverse archipelago to meet 70 percent of fast-rising energy needs with renewables
Congratulations, kilt-wearers, and descendants of William Wallace! Your country's seas are about to become the proud guardians of the world's largest floating wind farm.
This past weekend Germany generated so much electricity from renewable sources like solar and wind that suppliers effectively paid users to consume energy.
Construction of White Rock Wind Farm in Glen Innes, the largest wind farm in NSW, will begin within weeks. The 175 megawatt wind farm has planning approval for 119 turbines to be constructed in stages. The $400 million development will power 75,000 homes annual when in full production.
Italian architects Paolo Venturella and Cosimo Scotucci designed a Global Cooling Skyscraper that would use wind power to cool the planet and battle global warming.
Siemens has won an order from Esinti Enerji to install turbines for 54-megawatt onshore wind power plant in western Turkey. The Kinik onshore wind is located 80 kilometers north of the city of Izmir. Siemens will install 17 direct drive wind turbines rated at 3.2 megawatts (MW) capacity each.
From gigantic floating wind turbines to combining wind and hydro for large-scale energy storage, Norway has already taken bold steps to promote wind energy as a renewable resource.
A LARGE-scale solar and wind revolution has been sparked in Queensland with 17 proposed projects capable of powering more than a million homes.
The Hornsea project is expected to generate 1.2GW of power once it comes online -- the first wind farm in the world to exceed 1GW in capacity.
Companies partaking in the RE100 campaign are, on average, halfway towards meeting their 100% renewable electricity goals. This, according to the new RE100 annual report published by The Climate Group and CDP this week, which publishes the latest available data (which is from 2014) on 45 companies partaking in the RE100 campaign to commit to 100% renewable electricity.
Onshore wind energy could become cheaper than new gas generation by 2020 if the policy and regulatory conditions are right.
Denmark produced an unheard-of 42 percent of its electricity from wind turbines in 2015, according to official figures , setting a new world record for wind energy generation.
The world economy has a long way to go to break away from the use of coal and oil that fueled progress since the Industrial Revolution.
RenewableUK has highlighted new official statistics from National Grid which show that 2015 was a record year for wind energy generation, with onshore and offshore wind farms supplying their largest ever amounts of clean electricity to Britain’s homes, factories and offices.
