Wind
Catching the wave: Government launches £160m ports push as offshore wind outlook brightens
Ministers seeking bids for £160m port fund as flurry of new reports predicts surge in offshore wind development
Offshore wind will be the backbone of the UK's Green Industrial Revolution
Offshore wind will become even more important the power source for unlocking new technologies such as renewable hydrogen, writes Ørsted's Duncan Clark
Dogger Bank offshore wind farm: SSE and Equinor to invest £6bn in first phases
Plans for phase one and two of world's largest offshore wind project in North Sea formally reach financial close
What happened to onshore wind and solar in the PM's Ten Point Plan?
The government should introduce dedicated annual auctions for onshore wind and solar that can boost their deployment, argues RSPB's Seb Berry
How the UK climbed back into the top five most attractive renewables markets
EY's annual league table sees UK climb two places after wave of supportive policy measures for wind and solar in 2020
Government sets sights on securing 12GW of renewable power from next contract auction
Plans to hold fourth Contracts for Difference auction for range of different renewables technologies confirmed by government for late 2021
Reports: GE mulls wind turbine factory in north east England
US manufacturing giant said to be in talks to set up facility that would create 3,000 green jobs for the burgeoning offshore wind industry
Government promises to unleash net zero investment blitz with 10 Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution
Carbon capture, hydrogen, nuclear, EVs, and renewables all set to benefit from £12bn government stimulus plan, but critics warn funding falls well short of the level required to trigger a green recovery
Scotland: Locogen and European Energy partner to deliver 800MW of onshore wind capacity
Major wind pipeline deal struck between Edinburgh renewables company and Copenhagen-based developer will see partners collaborate for five years
Plans submitted for major onshore wind farm in southern Scotland
Community Windpower claims the 525MW project would house 75 turbines and energy storage capabilities, delivering £1.8bn of economic benefits
World's 'most powerful' floating wind turbine installed on floating foundation
MHI Vestas announces that 9.5MW wind turbine is to be transported to offshore floating Kincardine wind project, where it will float at water depths of up to 80m, MHI Vestas said
With government leadership, aviation and offshore wind can help each other
Department for Transport leadership is key to avoid holding back the UK's burgeoning wind offshore power sector, argues RenewableUK's Nathan Bennett
'Blade-walker': Repair robot scales offshore turbine blade
Inspect-and-repair robot for offshore wind turbines developed by BladeBug and ORE Catapult has climbed a blade in real-world conditions for the first time
UK onshore wind predicted to hit 30GW by end of decade
Latest figures from RenewableUK predicts onshore wind capacity is set to rapidly accelerate, with the potential to deliver major decarbonisation, employment, and economic boost over the next decade
Global offshore wind project pipeline surges in 2020 despite Covid-19
RenewableUK claims global project pipeline is up almost 50 per cent since January as UK retains position as world's largest market for the technology
Could wind power's economic benefits have been underestimated?
New socio-economic research from Oxford Brookes focused on an Aberdeen offshore wind farm suggests developer underestimated the value the project would have for local and Scotland-wide economies
Writing the next chapters in offshore wind innovation
Industry, environmental stakeholders and government must work together to tackle the challenges posed by overlapping demands for seabed space, writes The Crown Estate's Huub den Rooijen
Crown Estate delays next round of offshore wind leases
Just a week after Boris Johnson ramped up the UK's offshore wind ambitions, the manager of the seabed has pushed back the timetable for awarding the next round of leases
On a wind-filled future: something's missing…
Labour's Alan Whitehead welcomes the Prime Minister's new found love of offshore wind, but warns that without a more co-ordinated approach to connecting new wind farms to the grid the government's clean energy vision could quickly run aground
'Unstoppable momentum': Business-backed report concludes Paris-aligned power sector can be delivered
'S curve' deployment suggest goals of Paris Agreement can be achieved, but only if policy framework 'encourages, sustains, and extends' the deployment of clean technologies, according to researchers from UCL's Institute for Sustainable Resources
The strong winds of change
Consistent investment has and will continue to propel the wind power industry to astonishing new heights in post-pandemic, argues RenewableUK
Rice pudding skins and wind revolutions
No Prime Minister has ever been quite so explicit in their backing for the clean technologies that will drive this green revolution - this matters enormously
Boris Johnson: 'We are progressing with gale force speed on the green economy'
Prime Minister takes swipe at 'people used to sneer at wind power 20 years ago' in speech that majors on green economy ambitions
'Our seas hold immense potential': PM pledges to power all UK homes with offshore wind by 2030
Boris Johnson trails first stage in '10-point plan' for a green industrial revolution, as government confirms new £160m wind turbine manufacturing investment
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