Enlarge / An offshore wind farm under construction. (credit: Charlie Chesvick/Getty Images ) Shortly after taking office, President Joe Joe biden announced a major effort to jump-start the offshore wind industry in the US, with the stated goal of going from roughly zero to 30 GW of capacity before the decade is over. To that […]
Enlarge (credit: Bloomberg / Getty Images) Wind power isn’t the largest part of the United States’ energy mix, but it grew over the last year, according to the Wind Technologies Market Report. The renewable energy source grew to more than 8 percent of the country’s electricity supply—reaching 10 percent in a growing number of states—and […]
Enlarge / New Jersey hopes to be the home of scenes like this, where French workers are building the foundations for offshore wind turbines. (credit: Bloomberg/Getty Images) By the end of the decade, New Jersey’s beaches are set to have a view of something other than crashing waves. The state is pushing for aggressive development […]
Enlarge / An offshore wind farm in the UK. (credit: Dave Hughes) After years of delays, the federal government has approved what will be the third offshore wind project in the US—and the largest by far. Vineyard Wind, situated off the coast of Massachusetts, will have a generating capacity of 800 Megawatts, dwarfing Block Island […]
Enlarge (credit: Matthew Staver/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Fallout from Texas’ statewide power outages in February continues to spread. Today, the Texas House of Representatives is scheduled to debate a bill that would require power producers to bear the costs of services that help keep the electrical grid stable. If the bill passes, it would “unfairly shift […]
Enlarge / Sights like these may be more common in the US before long. (credit: Nathan Stirk / Getty Images) On Monday, the Biden administration announced a major effort to kickstart the offshore wind industry in the US. While offshore installations have been booming in Europe, the US is still limited to a single, small […]
Enlarge / Miraculously, the video at issue did not accuse wind turbines of causing cancer. (credit: Pictures Alliance / Getty Images) Our editor-in-chief obviously hates me. That’s the only conclusion I could reach after he asked me to watch an abysmal attack video targeting renewable energy—a video produced by a notorious source of right-wing misinformation. […]
Enlarge / Wind turbines can apparently operate in Antarctica, so it’s not clear what Texas’ problem is. (credit: Tien Lai, NSF) This morning, as the jet stream brought frigid air south to the central United States, Texas residents found themselves facing rolling blackouts as statewide grid struggled to meet demand amidst a large shortfall in […]
Funding for what is now the planet ’s biggest offshore wind farm job off the Northeast shore of the U.K., has been finished on Thursday–additional proof of the strong need for renewable energy jobs during a worldwide economic recession. It’s {} to be completed and usable by 2026. Funding for the next phase is going […]
Facebook is among those world’s biggest corporate buyers of renewable energy, using signed prices for at least 5 gigawatts of all “fresh ” electricity –3.5 gigawatts of that is anticipated to be on line by the end of the year. (One gigawatt is enough to electricity 700,000 houses for per lifetime, according to some estimates) […]