floating wind

Reports: Government to ramp up wind power and energy efficiency efforts in response to Ukraine crisis

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Reports: Government to ramp up wind power and energy efficiency efforts in response to Ukraine crisis

Upcoming Energy Security Strategy expected to include higher targets for offshore and floating wind, alongside new energy efficiency measures

clock 18 March 2022 • 4 min read
'Enormous opportunity': How floating wind power could prove critical to global climate goals

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'Enormous opportunity': How floating wind power could prove critical to global climate goals

Growing numbers of countries looking to ramp up floating wind capacity in coming years, attracted by its huge potential to capture strong wind speeds, an industry report has claimed

clock 11 March 2022 • 5 min read
Floating turbines: Government's latest awards take funding boost to over £60m

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Floating turbines: Government's latest awards take funding boost to over £60m

Government hails potential of floating turbine technologies to further curb the cost of offshore wind energy

clock 25 January 2022 • 3 min read
RenewableUK's CEO Dan McGrail: 'The industry has gained trust by over-delivering - we need to keep doing that'

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RenewableUK's CEO Dan McGrail: 'The industry has gained trust by over-delivering - we need to keep doing that'

Trade association's new CEO has taken over at a pivotal moment for the UK energy sector - he speaks to BusinessGreen about ensuring the UK grasps its global opportunities

clock 25 October 2021 • 13 min read
Floating wind: 'World's largest' project begins supplying power off Scottish coast

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Floating wind: 'World's largest' project begins supplying power off Scottish coast

50MW Kincardine floating wind farm off east coast of Aberdeenshire has been developed under PPA deal with Statkraft

clock 21 September 2021 • 3 min read
Study: UK leads world in floating wind energy, as global pipeline hits 54GW

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Study: UK leads world in floating wind energy, as global pipeline hits 54GW

Figures published by RenewableUK reveal UK's floating wind energy pipeline is now the largest in the world

clock 15 September 2021 • 3 min read
'Biggest ever': Ministers earmark £265m for next round of clean power auctions

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'Biggest ever': Ministers earmark £265m for next round of clean power auctions

Green energy industry welcomes 'really good' package for Contracts for Difference Round 4 that promises to accelerate roll out of offshore wind, solar, and onshore wind projects

clock 13 September 2021 • 5 min read
Salamander Scottish floating wind project eyes green hydrogen potential

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Salamander Scottish floating wind project eyes green hydrogen potential

Simply Blue Energy and Subsea 7 sign memorandum of understanding with hydrogen specialist ERM for 200MW floating wind project off Aberdeenshire coast

clock 04 August 2021 • 3 min read

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Floating wind: Three Celtic Sea projects move forward in Crown Estate leasing process

Crown Estate announces 300MW of new projects have progressed to final stage of leasing assessment

clock 29 July 2021 • 3 min read

Energy

Cornwall has a climate change tackling gift for COP26: Floating offshore wind

The UK can become a champion of technology that allows developers to build wind farms in deeper, windier waters, writes Conservative MP for Truro & Falmouth

clock 27 July 2021 • 3 min read