Fund expected to receive ‘boost’ from private sector investment in development of port infrastructure and offshore installation operations for fast-emerging sea-based energy technology
New York’s Sunrise Wind project will be the first offshore wind farm in the U.S. to be connected to the grid using a high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission system.
The limits on large scale renewables in what is already the world’s leading grid for wind and solar are to be relaxed after the local transmission company completed the installation of four big “spinning machines” that will help remove the need for gas generation.
If all these projects are realised, the UK could have more than double the current operational capacity by 2030
Vestas has announced plans to install a prototype of its 15 megawatt offshore wind turbine at a facility in Denmark.
The NSW state Liberal government has unveiled a green hydrogen strategy that will offer $3 billion in incentives and will seek to attract between $80 and $50 billion in new hydrogen infrastructure as it accelerates its shift to zero emissions.
Berlin provides $58m in support for pilot projects in the country’s exclusive economic zone in the North Sea.Germany’s economics and energy ministry has published a regulation enabling the allocation of areas for production of green hydrogen in Germany’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the North Sea
South Korean company SeAH Wind is investing £260m over three years in an offshore wind turbine monopile foundation factory at the Able Marine Energy Park on the south bank of the Humber, creating 750 direct jobs
In Australia, renewable energy is growing at a per capita rate ten times faster than the world average. Between 2018 and 2020, Australia will install more than 16 gigawatts of wind and solar, an average rate of 220 watts per person per year
Tesla announced that it has broken ground on a new facility called ‘Megafactory’ in Lathrop, California.It will be used to produce Megapacks, Tesla’s biggest batteries for stationary energy storage