urkey has managed to save $7 billion in the last 12 months as its wind and solar power generation helped replace fossil fuel imports, lowering electricity bills at a time when gas prices skyrocketed globally, a report said Tuesday.

Officials in the state have designs on growing the off-shore wind energy industry. The city of Salem will get a $45 million cut to transform empty land into a wind turbine marshalling yard.

Demand from companies seeking to enhance their green credentials by contracting electricity from renewable sources directly from generators, via term market Mater, is healthy.

Green energy bosses have highlighted the contribution onshore wind farms make to Scotland’s economy with such sites paying more than £100 million in business rates. Claire Mack, chief executive of industry body Scottish Renewables, said the payments are “just one part of the onshore wind industry’s contribution to Scotland’s economy”.

Duke Energy and a Texas-based subsidiary of an international energy company were the top bidders Wednesday for wind energy rights in a pair of areas totaling 110,000 acres off the coast of North Carolina.

Wind turbine maker Vestas slashed its full-year operating profit margin outlook due to the war in Ukraine and writedowns in its offshore business, as it reported a deeper-than-expected first quarter operating loss.

In a statement Thursday, Danish energy firm Orsted said the first power at the Greater Changhua 1 & 2a facility was delivered on schedule following the installation of its initial set of wind turbines. Electricity, it said, had been “transferred to Orsted’s onshore substations via array cables, offshore substations, and export cables. The renewable energy was fed into the national grid via Taipower’s substation.” Taipower is a state-owned utility.

April 20 (Renewables Now) – Wind turbine manufacturer GE Renewable Energy said today that it has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Spanish renewables developer Forestalia to support a new 21-MW wind farm project in Spain and lower the carbon footprint of its European operations.

The first of the 140 Siemens Gamesa 11.0-200 DD wind turbines has been installed on the 1.5 GW Hollandse Kust Zuid – the world’s first subsidy-free offshore wind farm. This is also the first SG 11.0-200 DD unit to be installed offshore and the largest and most powerful wind turbine to be installed on an offshore wind farm.

On March 29, wind turbines produced more electricity than coal and nuclear, the U.S. Energy Information Administration, an agency that collects energy statistics for the government, says.