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Photo: WindFloat Atlantic WindFloat 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. The 25 megawatt (MW) WindFloat Atlantic project ended 2023 with an electricity production of 80 gigawatt hours (GWh), surpassing 2022’s output of 78 GWh. It supplies power to more than 25,000 households and avoids 33,000 tons of carbon dioxide. The offshore wind farm sits 20 km off…

Google announced its biggest deal yet to purchase offshore wind energy for its data centers in Europe, signing power purchase agreements to support two new wind farms off the coast of the Netherlands. It’s part of Google’s plan to match all of its data center electricity consumption with clean energy generation on a 24/7 basis by 2030. To do that, the company will need to help get more renewable energy, including offshore wind, pulsing through power grids where it operates. It shared “the next step” of that plan for…

Photo: "DONG HAI OFFSHORE WINDFARM" by TheClimateGroup is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL), the world’s largest EV battery maker, is going to build its own $1.83 billion offshore wind farm. The Chinese EV battery and battery storage giant’s offshore wind farm, which will be sited near the company’s headquarters in Ningde in southeastern Fujian Province, will provide clean energy to power its own operations, reports Caixin. The Fujian Provincial…

Hywind floating offshore wind turbine by U.S. Department of Energy is licensed under CC-CC0 1.0 Two US environmental agencies say they will start using AI to better monitor the impact of offshore wind farms on marine animals, particularly endangered North American right whales, of which there are only about 360 left in the world. The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced their new joint strategy to protect…

Almost exactly two years ago, the Indian cryptocurrency market braced for a freezing winter, after the government announced a one% TDS and 30% capital gains tax on exchange of virtual digital assets. Over the following months, everybody from investors to influencers, YouTubers, exchange platforms and even education startups pivoted to suggesting tips and tricks to circumvent these taxes, or folded up their businesses altogether.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteMITMIT…

Photo: Ocean Wind 1 Ørsted 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. New Jersey was expected to announce another offshore wind solicitation at the beginning of 2024, and it’s delivered. Its Board of Public Utilities (BPU) has awarded contracts to Leading Light Wind and Attentive Energy Two – what will become two of the US’s largest offshore wind farms. The 2.4 GW…

New York’s South Fork Wind has become the first utility-scale offshore wind farm to generate power in the US. Danish renewables giant Ørsted announced that South Fork Wind has achieved its 50% installation milestone. Six out of 12 wind turbines are complete and online. “The 7th turbine has also been installed, with components for the 8th turbine next to be installed,” the company said . Halfway point ✅Another big milestone for #SouthForkWind as we reach the halfway-finished milestone, with…

The world’s first floating offshore wind farm, Hywind Scotland, is coming offline for three to four months for “heavy maintenance.” Hywind Scotland‘s operator, Norwegian power giant Equinor, says that operational data has indicated that its wind turbines need work. The pilot project has been in operation since 2017. The five Siemens Gamesa turbines will be towed to Norway this summer. An Equinor spokesperson said, “This is the first such operation for a floating farm, and the safest method to…

Less than 24 hours after access to web platforms of crypto wallets such as Binance was cut off for Indian users, their apps were also taken down from Google Play Store.Though there was no official communication from the government, electronics and information technology ministry officials said the move to direct Google to take down these apps followed the finance ministry’s inputs that these platforms are being allegedly used for money laundering.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering…

India on Friday blocked access to the web platforms of foreign cryptocurrency exchanges and virtual digital asset service providers such as Binance, Kucoin and OKX.The Android versions of these apps are also likely to be taken down as “orders to that effect have been passed already”, a senior government official said. On Wednesday, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology’s (MeitY) had asked Apple to remove offshore cryptocurrency apps from its store.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill…