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The White House and 11 governors from East Coast states forged a new partnership on Thursday to build up domestic supply chains for offshore wind farms and related infrastructure. The new Federal-State Offshore Wind Implementation Partnership includes governors from Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island. As part of the announcement, the Biden administration committed to the facilitation of “timely and effective…

A wind turbine at the Ormonde Offshore Wind Farm, in the Irish Sea. With governments around the world attempting to ramp up their renewable energy capacity, the number of wind turbines worldwide only looks set to grow, which will in turn increase pressure on the sector to find sustainable solutions to the disposal of blades.Ashley Cooper | Corbis Documentary | Getty ImagesA major offshore wind farm being built in waters off the Netherlands is set to use recyclable blades from Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy — the latest…

International Business Machines (IBM) is winding down its business in Russia and has started to lay off its employees in the country, according to a memo to staff sent last week and emailed to Reuters on Tuesday.After Russia invaded Ukraine in February, IBM joined hundreds of other companies in suspending business in the country. Many others had announced a complete exit from Russia."As the consequences of the war continue to mount and uncertainty about its long-term ramifications grows, we have now made the decision to…

The first of 11 8.6 megawatt (MW) turbines has been installed at the world’s largest floating wind farm, off the Norwegian coast. Hywind Tampen is also Norway’s first offshore wind farm – and it will power offshore oil and gas platforms. World’s largest offshore floating wind farm Map: Equinor Four wind turbines have been fully assembled by Norwegian power giant Equinor, which is developing and will operate Hywind Tampen. It’s located around 140 km (87 miles) off the Norwegian coast in a water depth of between…

Wind turbine blades photographed at a site in Denmark. The issue of what to do with blades when they're no longer needed is a headache for the industry.Jonathanfilskov-photography | Istock | Getty ImagesSpanish energy firm Iberdrola has jointly established a company that will recycle components used in renewable energy installations, including wind turbine blades.In a statement last week Iberdrola said the company, known as EnergyLOOP, would develop a blade recycling facility in Navarre, northern Spain."The initial…

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. In an airplane hangar in Miami, engineers are recreating some of the most powerful hurricane winds to ever strike land. These Category 5 winds can shatter a test building in the blink of an eye. Yet they aren’t powerful enough to keep up with nature. When engineers built the Wall of Wind test facility 10 years ago at Florida International University, it was inspired by Hurricane Andrew, a monster…

The Biden administration announced this week that it will cut the cost of building wind and solar on US public land by 50%. In a statement, the Department of the Interior (DOI) announced: The new policy will reduce rents and fees substantially and enhance rate predictability for wind and solar developers. On average, the expects rents and fees to decrease by over 50% due to lower acreage rents and a standard megawatt fee that promotes more efficient wind and solar or hybrid projects on public lands.   The DOI…

Construction has started on the 1,026-megawatt (MW) MacIntyre Wind Precinct, the largest wind farm to ever be built in Australia. It’s also one of the largest wind farms in the southern hemisphere. Largest wind farm in Australia Spanish global renewable energy company Acciona Energía and state-owned enterprise CleanCo Queensland are co-owners of the AUD $2 billion (US $1.45 billion) project in Queensland, southwest of Warwick. Queensland-based Ark Energy is a co-investor. As the tweet below states, the MacIntyre…

The South Korean authorities are set to dig deep into Terra fall with Terra staffs and documentation Terra (LUNA) has surprised the whole global cryptocurrency market with its drastic fall in its price, despite being the popular stablecoin. The sudden instability in the stablecoin has provided multiple backlashes to Terra including the Founder, Do Kwon, and the entire Terra staff. Meanwhile, South Korea has launched a full investigation for the tax evasion and other regulations for LUNA tokens and the loss…

The lead singer of the German hard rockers Scorpions has revealed he changed the lyrics of Wind of Change because he no longer wanted to “romanticise Russia” with his chart-topping perestroika power ballad, after Putin’s war of aggression in Ukraine.“To sing Wind of Change as we have always sung it, that’s not something I could imagine any more,” Klaus Meine told Die Zeit. “It simply isn’t right to romanticise Russia with lyrics like: ‘I follow the Moskva / Down to Gorky Park … Let your balalaika sing’”.Instead, he said,…