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Two wind farms off the west and north Wales coastline have secured UK government funding to supply the national grid, with up to 7,000 jobs expected to be created. The Erebus wind farm, set to be built off the coast of Pembrokeshire, would become Wales' first floating offshore wind farm, following two projects already operating in Scotland.
China has more wind power than any country in the world and is currently adding twice as much as the rest of the world combined.
A federal judge on Monday cleared Danish offshore wind developer Orsted to resume work on its nearly finished Revolution Wind project, which U.S. President Donald Trump's administration halted along with four other projects last month.
Revolution Wind has received all of its federal permits and is nearly 90 percent complete to provide power for Rhode Island and Connecticut.
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U.S. Court Clears Path for Revolution Wind Construction to Restart
A U.S. federal court has granted a preliminary injunction that allows construction of the Revolution Wind offshore wind project to resume while legal challenges to federal suspension orders continue.
In short: Firefighters had to wait for a fire in a wind turbine to burn out but were lucky the weather was cool and calm. Authorities consider the risk from wind turbine fires to be low. The Country Fire Service says wind turbine fires are rare.
How green is wind power? It’s not a simple question. Of course the wind blows without carbon emissions, but catching it isn’t easy. Building and erecting wind turbines requires hundreds of tons of materials — steel, concrete, fiberglass, copper, and ...
The UK Government’s record achievement of offshore wind power is a “missed opportunity” in Scotland due a limited budget and “unfair” transmission charges, the Scottish Government has said. The UK Government has secured record amounts of offshore wind power in an auction that officials insisted is good for consumers and investment.