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Floating wind turbines are crucial to the future of offshore wind, and to bring energy costs down to a competitive level, they require radically different thinking. French company Eolink is starting to build a full-scale demonstrator of its innovative … Continue reading Full-scale 5-MW floating “pyramid” wind turbine will be put to the test
A prototype wind turbine has recorded an extraordinary single-day renewable energy production total, bringing in a massive 359 megawatt-hours in a 24-hour time period. To get there, it had to operate over its rated capacity, essentially all day long.Co… Continue reading Record energy haul: Offshore prototype operates over capacity for 24 hrs
We’ve been banging on a bit about floating offshore wind turbines lately, but with good reason. Take a look at the US Energy Information Administration’s projected Levelized Cost of Energy (LCoE) figures for 2027, on page 9 of this report. Deep offshor… Continue reading 1-MW floating vertical axis wind turbine to be deployed off Norway
Norway’s World Wide Wind has a radically different take on offshore wind power. These floating, vertical-axis wind turbines (VAWTs) feature two sets of blades, tuned to contra-rotate – and they promise more than double the output of today’s biggest tur… Continue reading Contra-rotating floating turbines promise unprecedented scale and power
Harvesting wind energy is an important part of the renewables mix, but when those huge turbine blades reach the end of their working lives, they could end up as waste in landfill. Siemens Gamesa has developed a recyclable blade that can be used to crea… Continue reading Wind turbine fitted with recyclable blades starts generating electricity
Norway’s Argeo has launched the first uncrewed survey and inspection vessel based on the Mariner X platform from Maritime Robotics. The Argus is expected to undertake mapping and inspection operations for offshore wind projects.Continue ReadingCategory… Continue reading Argus unmanned surface vessel designed for accurate ocean mapping
The switch has been flicked on a wind farm off the shore of the UK of unprecedented scale, with Danish energy firm Orsted announcing that Hornsea 2 has produced its first power. It is expected to become fully operational next year as the world’s bigges… Continue reading World’s largest offshore wind farm generates its first power
More than three years after revealing plans to build a monster offshore wind turbine called the Haliade-X, GE Renewable Energy has announced that the prototype of the latest and most powerful member of the family has started operating at 14 MW in Rotte… Continue reading World’s largest offshore wind turbine starts operating at 14 MW
China’s MingYang Smart Energy has announced an offshore wind turbine even bigger than GE’s monstrous Haliade-X. The MySE 16.0-242 is a 16-megawatt, 242-meter-tall (794-ft) behemoth capable of powering 20,000 homes per unit over a 25-year service life.C… Continue reading World’s biggest wind turbine shows the disproportionate power of scale
Norway’s Wind Catching Systems (WCS) has made a spectacular debut with a colossal floating wind turbine array it says can generate five times the annual energy of the world’s biggest single turbines – while reducing costs enough to be immediately compe… Continue reading 1,000-foot multi-rotor floating Windcatchers to power 80,000 homes each