The establishment of wind power is now marching further to the deep waters. US-based GE is currently working with naval architecture & marine engineering service provider Glosten on designing 12MW floating offshore wind turbines from a budget of US$4 million.  ...  more

A wind power startup has created a high altitude kite to capture wind energy in upper air, and now an “underwater kite” has been developed to intercept the fluctuating ocean energy at the seabed. ...  more

TECO is rumored to have signed a framework agreement with several domestic and overseas offshore wind power developer and a globally renowned permanent-magnet wind turbine manufacturer for its imminent expansion in the offshore wind power market, and will be producing stator-rotor prototypes for wind turbines. At the same time, TECO will be striving to manufacture the wind turbine prototypes required after 2025 alongside its partners of the agreement. ...  more

Are three-blade wind turbines really indispensable for the generation of wind power? Spanish startup Vortex Bladeless has introduced an unconventional “bladeless wind turbine” that exceeded imagination, and wind power generation will no longer be constrained to extensive areas in the future, while the concern on birds and bats is also eliminated at the same time. ...  more

South Korea subtly accounts for 35% of global offshore wind farm projects, and has announced an investment of KRW 48.5 trillion (approx. US$43.2 billion) on establishing the largest offshore wind farm at 8.2GW (= 8,200 MW = 8.2 million kWh), which not only accelerates the installed capacity and development of renewable energy, but also rejuvenates the post-pandemic economy through development projects of large power plants. ...  more

As a country famous for its development of wind energy, Denmark has an advantage in obtaining additional sources of new energy because of its vast shorelines, despite being constrained by its limited landmass. As the E.U.’s new energy targets bring impending changes to the energy ecosystem, Denmark will now construct a massive offshore artificial island to create more new energy hubs, expected to provide tens of millions of households in Europe with electricity eventually. ...  more

Major Danish offshore wind power provider Orsted, driven by worries over its underestimation of the range and complexity of the wake and blockage effects in 2019, revised down the weighted ROI forecasts of certain bidding offshore wind farms while simultaneously pointing out that the underestimation is a risk on a global scale for the wind power generation industry. ...  more

The US has always been a major country in carbon emission, and Trump had even emphasized on the revival of the coal industry, though both the coal industry and coal-fired power generation are expeditiously exiting from the stage despite the significant support from the former US president under the inevitable trend of technical advancement and market economy. ...  more

Texas, US, is not only a strategic location of petroleum and natural gas, but also the development core of wind power, and the latest data indicates that the wind power generation had surpassed that of coal firing for the first time in 2020. ...  more

Orsted announced on Dec 29th that the 605MW Greater Changhua South East Offshore Wind Farm will be incorporating with new investment, for which the joint venture formed with the global institutional investor CDPQ (Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec) and Cathay PE of Taiwan will obtain 50% of shares for the particular wind farm, with a total investment of NTD$75 billion. ...  more