Vattenfall aims to build subsidy free offshore wind farms by 2025
Vattenfall expects to be able to build offshore wind power projects without subsidies by 2025, according to a senior company official.
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ABB cracks 100-year-old tough technology nut
Leading power and automation technology group ABB says it has solved a 100-year-old electrical puzzle by developing a direct current breaker for high voltage DC transmission that it says will help shape the grid
Laying turbine foundations
AREVA and STX France are to work together with a view to "optimising" foundations" for offshore wind turbines.
Norwegians buy offshore wind project
Norwegian energy firms Statoil and Statkraft have bought a wind farm project off the coast of Norfolk.
Japan’s attention turns to floating windfarm projects
Japan is starting to flex increasing muscle in the offshore wind market, both through domestic technology development and international investment.
Green MSP brands Trump golf resort as ‘half-built carbuncle’
Donald Trump's golf resort in Aberdeenshire has been branded a "half-built carbuncle" by Green MSP Patrick Harvie.
More than 200 wind turbines installed offshore EU in 2011 as boom accelerates
A total of 235 wind turbines, with an aggregate generating capacity of 866MW (megawatts) and costing £2billion (2.4billion euros), were installed and fully grid connected in offshore European waters last year.
Offshore wind sets new record
MORE than 100 new offshore wind turbines have been fully connected to the grid during the first six months of this year alone, according to the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA).
Fabricator’s future hangs by a thread
The future of SLP, one of the UK's best known offshore fabrication yards, continues to hang by a thread following its collapse into administration several weeks ago.