Welcome to Dogger Island: An artificial island in the North Sea that could supply 80 million people in Europe with renewable energy by 2050. Europe plans to build an artificial island, with a port and an airport, designed to act as a hub for large offshore wind farms that will supply 80 million people with
Turbine on the Norfolk coast. Image: DJ Mattaar Shutterstock A record that was broken the week in which the British Government signed an agreement to increase the capacity of offshore plants to 30 GW by 2030. Electricity production from offshore wind power in the UK has surpassed that of nuclear power plants: the figure announced
The production of wind energy in Spain has grown by 15% in March 2020 compared to the same period of the previous year, due to an increase in production, with a fall in demand. Data from Spain’s national electricity grid (REE) show that wind power generation amounted to 5,543 GWh, representing 27% of the country’s
The Persian windmills of Nashtifan, northwest Iran, are about to be silenced forever after grinding grain for the people of this town for more than a millennium. Considered the oldest in the world, these mills that have also been declared a national heritage by the Iranian government were the germ of a structure that, from
Wind farm Germany. Image: Rudmer Zwerver Shutterstock New updated data on global wind capacity, gathered in the new WoodMac study, forecasts annual increases of 71 GW of capacity from 2019-2023 and 76 GW until 2028. Global wind capacity will grow 60% in the next five years. It is backed by Wood Mackenzie Power and Renewables,
Giraffe 2.0 is a hybrid power generation station ready to charge anything from your electric car to your home, all with wind and solar power. It is capable of producing between 10,000 – 13,800 kWh per year even in countries with low solar radiation and moderate winds – providing power 24 hours a day, all
Designers Marcos Madia, Sergio Ohashi and Juan Manuel Pantano are responsible for the Eolic project, a portable wind generator concept whose mission would be to bring clean energy to small isolated facilities. The structure, fully foldable and built with super light materials such as aluminum and carbon, is designed to be deployed and assembled to
Wind power that can be operational 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, wind energy available even when the wind is not blowing. This is the objective of two companies, Max Boegl Wind AG and GE Renewable Energy, designing what will be the first wind turbine with an integrated mini-hydroelectric plant. This is not
A 260-meter colossus with 107-meter long blades: the new Haliade-X wind turbine, General Electric’s new bet, will be developed in the next three years. The offshore wind has taught us to dream big. In the last ten years, turbines have tripled their power, cut their foundations, tested cutting-edge materials and reached record heights. The last
New research has assessed the performance of US wind farms over the years. The first comprehensive study of US wind facilities shows relatively low levels of performance decline over the years. US wind plants maintain 87% of their peak performance after 17 years, and newer plants show almost no loss of performance during the first
