Looking towards the future and excited of being part of this energy revolution
The challenge of floating offshore wind energy
Professors from the Civil Engineering School at UPC participated for 10 years in projects related with floating offshore wind energy. Nowadays, offshore wind is a reality in Europe at the North Sea, where the continental shelve makes easier to fix … Read More
Europe confirmed a record amount of €26.3bn of investments in new offshore wind farms last 2020
The EU Offshore Renewable Energy Strategy (ORES) that the EU Commission tabled last year was a milestone. It mapped out the regulatory framework for the expansion of offshore wind development and set a target of 300 GW offshore wind for … Read More
NREL unveils IEA 15-MW Reference Wind Turbine
NREL recently released the International Energy Agency 15-megawatt reference turbine, or IEA 15-MW for short, which features options for both fixed-bottom turbines and those with floating substructures. This open-source model, now available on GitHub, can accommodate multiple software tools and will … Read More
Europe installs a record 3.6 GW of offshore wind in 2019
Europe installed 3.6 GW of new offshore wind capacity in 2019, according to statistics released today by WindEurope. This is a new record in annual installations. Read more: https://windeurope.org/
WindFloat Atlantic has begun producing power
The world’s largest floating wind turbine has begun generating power off the coast of Portugal. The WindFloat Atlantic project connected the first of three 8.4-megawatt MHI Vestas turbines planned for installation. The offshore wind turbine is connected to a substation … Read More
Offshore wind to become a $1 trillion industry
Offshore wind power will expand impressively over the next two decades, boosting efforts to decarbonise energy systems and reduce air pollution as it becomes a growing part of electricity supply, according to International Energy Agency. The IEA finds that global … Read More
Europe leads the global clean energy transition
An ambitious political agreement on increasing renewable energy use in Europe was reached today between negotiators from the Commission, the European Parliament and the Council. Today’s deal means that two out of the 8 legislative proposals in the Clean Energy for … Read More
Excitement About Floating Offshore Wind
When the first floating offshore wind demonstration projects were deployed nearly ten years ago, most observers thought that the technology was intriguing, but the costs and degree of difficulty were both very, very high. At that stage, fixed-bottom offshore was … Read More
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