Drax Group has secured development consent from the Scottish Government for its plans to build a new £500m underground pumped storage hydro plant at its Cruachan facility in Argyll, Scotland. The new 600MW plant will be constructed adjacent to the existing underground facility, effectively more than doubling the site’s total [...]

DEME's offshore installation vessel Orion successfully has installed the 3000 tonne offshore substation for the 800MW Vineyard Wind 1 offshore wind project in the US. The installation of the offshore substation, a first in the US, took place after months of preparation with collaboration and dedication of all partners involved [...]

The UK offshore energy supply chain could benefit from £90bn of investment over the next decade under a new roadmap from Offshore Energies UK (OEUK). The new Harnessing the Potential report from OEUK, together with Robert Gordon’s University (RGU), lays out plans to help UK companies build and deliver the [...]

In the first half of 2023, 331 onshore wind turbines with a cumulative capacity of 1565MW were installed in Germany. Deutsche WindGuard on behalf of BWE and VDMA Power Systems has gathered the data. Gross additions in the first half of 2023 are already 65% of the additions for 2022 [...]

Orsted’s Hornsea Four windfarm, 69km off Flamborough Head, has been approved by Grant Shapps, Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero. The 180-turbine windfarm is expected to produce up to 2.6GW of electricity when operational – enough to supply a million homes. Orsted, which currently operates 13 windfarms [...]

Communities have two weeks left to have their say on the proposed UK southern North Sea offshore wind farm, North Falls, which is holding its statutory consultation until 14 July 2023. North Falls is a proposed extension to the existing 504MW Greater Gabbard Offshore Wind Farm, comprising an offshore array [...]

Italy aims to generate nearly two thirds of its electricity from renewable energy sources by the end of the decade, the energy ministry said on Friday, slightly improving targets made public three years ago. In a revision of the country's energy and climate plan, the ministry said Italy aimed to [...]

China is shoring up its position as the world leader in renewable power and potentially outpacing its own ambitious energy targets, a report has found. China is set to double its capacity and produce 1,200 gigawatts of energy through wind and solar power by 2025, reaching its 2030 goal five years ahead [...]

Galp and TotalEnergies have agreed to jointly explore potential offshore wind opportunities in Portugal, as the country prepares to promote a plan for 10GW of offshore wind-power capacity in the coming years. The two companies will work together to develop potential offshore wind projects along the Portuguese coast. This partnership [...]

Deutsche Windtechnik is using drone technology for periodic inspections of the rotor blades at the Butendiek offshore wind farm off Germany. At the beginning of June, the company started to carry out a large-scale offshore inspection campaign using automated drone technology. The deployment included the periodic inspection of the rotor [...]

Global technology firm ABB estimates that a further 24 wind farms with an average capacity of 1500MW each need to become operational during the next seven years to hit the UK's 50GW 2030 offshore wind goal. If achieved, the UK’s electricity supply from offshore wind will jump from 18% to 62% [...]

RenewableUK’s latest EnergyPulse market intelligence data report shows that the UK’s pipeline of offshore wind projects has reached 97,944MW, up from 91,287MW a year ago. Meanwhile, the global total topped 1.23TW, an increase of nearly 400GW in the last year. The pipeline includes projects at every stage of development: operational, [...]