Florida has no wind turbines but it’s going to ban them anyway
Florida legislature is about to ban offshore wind turbines in state waters, which wouldn’t be put there to begin with, to protect the beaches.
Expand Expanding CloseFlorida legislature is about to ban offshore wind turbines in state waters, which wouldn’t be put there to begin with, to protect the beaches.
Expand Expanding CloseWithout EVs, solar, wind, and nuclear, the global rise in emissions in the last five years would have been three times larger, new International Energy Agency (IEA) analysis shows.
Expand Expanding CloseRenewable energy costs in Asia last year were 13% cheaper than coal and are expected to be 32% cheaper by 2030, according to a new study.
Expand Expanding CloseRenewables provided over 22.7% of US electrical generation in 2023, according to newly released end-of-year US Energy Information Administration (EIA) data.
Expand Expanding CloseChinese wind turbine orders set a new record in 2023 by reaching 100 gigawatts (GW), according to new research from Wood Mackenzie.
Expand Expanding CloseSpanish renewables developer Greenalia is rolling out an impressive 1.9 gigawatts (GW) of solar, wind, and battery storage in Texas, with more on the way.
Expand Expanding CloseSANY Renewable Energy, a wind turbine manufacturer in China, has built the world’s longest onshore wind turbine blade.
Expand Expanding CloseEurope’s coal electricity generation tanked by 26% and gas by 15% in 2023, according to a new report from energy think tank Ember.
Expand Expanding CloseXcel Energy just announced its big solar and wind plans in the US Midwest – here’s the lowdown.
Expand Expanding CloseWindFloat Atlantic – the world’s first semi-submersible floating offshore wind farm – has now been online for three years and continues to break its own power output records.
Expand Expanding CloseRepublicans have vowed to tear apart the Inflation Reduction Act, but the chief executive of NextEra Energy, the US’s largest renewable developer, says that’s “unlikely” if they win the election.
Expand Expanding CloseØrsted dealt New Jersey a massive blow by canceling 2.2 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind last year, but the state just added 3.7 GW of new projects to its pipeline.
Expand Expanding CloseThe Strauss Wind Project in Santa Barbara County, the first wind farm on California’s coast, is now online.
Expand Expanding CloseNew York’s South Fork Wind has become the first utility-scale offshore wind farm to generate power in the US.
Expand Expanding CloseThe US Energy Information Administration (EIA) forecasts that solar and wind will lead US power generation growth for the next two years in its latest Short-Term Energy Outlook.
Expand Expanding CloseThe world added 50% more renewable capacity in 2023 than in 2022 –and that means it has a real chance of achieving the goal set by governments at the COP28 climate change conference of tripling global capacity by 2030.
Expand Expanding CloseVineyard Wind 1 was supposed to deliver its first power to the Massachusetts grid by December 31 – but it didn’t.
Expand Expanding CloseThe world’s largest ultra-high-altitude wind farm came online on January 1 in Tibet, or what China now refers to as the Xizang Autonomous Region.
Expand Expanding CloseThe world’s longest land and subsea interconnector – between the UK and Denmark – started commercial operations today.
Expand Expanding CloseSunZia, a massive clean energy project in the US Southwest, has closed $11 billion non-recourse financing and launched full construction.
Expand Expanding CloseWhen two new Montana wind farms come online, the state will have more nameplate capacity in wind than in coal.
Expand Expanding CloseThe UK, which felt the punch of Storm Pia today, set a new wind energy generation record in just a half hour this morning, according to National Grid Electricity System Operator data.
Expand Expanding CloseDanish renewables giant Ørsted just committed to building the world’s single-largest offshore wind farm, Hornsea 3.
Expand Expanding CloseA new study from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab offers fresh insights into the impact of wind farms on the values of nearby homes.
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