The U.S. had seven operating offshore wind turbines with 42 megawatts of capacity in 2021. The Biden administration’s goal is 30,000 megawatts by 2030.
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Wind turbines often can produce more power than is needed for electricity onshore. That extra energy could be put to work capturing and storing carbon.
She’s back.
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Those who talk down an independent Scotland’s prospects are not factoring in one of its biggest natural resources.
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The transition to 100% renewable energy will require a lot of land – mostly in regional Australia. This presents big challenges, and opportunities, for the farming sector.
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The Arctic is particularly vulnerable to climate change, but efforts to tackle it risk alienating the people who live there.
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Australia’s biggest states are taking back control of their electricity systems, because the way we make power is changing.
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Despite Boris Johnson’s newfound enthusiasm for offshore wind farms, the UK risks going backwards on wind power capacity.
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China has a monopoly on rare earth metals, so where will the materials for the UK’s wind revolution come from?
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Black turbine blades seem to reduce bird collisions, but it’s important to know why.
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We discovered wind farms in Spain that had carved up peat bogs, causing them to release carbon to the atmosphere.
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More than 80% of the world’s offshore wind blows further from land than conventional wind farms can reach.
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Some coal workers have the right skills and work in the right location to get a job in renewables. But many, such as semi-skilled machine operators, cannot.
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The global warming potential of different greenhouse gases is often poorly understood, distorting which are the biggest concern.
Wind energy has played a major role in Australia’s fulfilment of the renewable energy target.
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The federal government this week heralded Australia’s renewable energy performance. But the outlook leaves little cause for celebration.
Wind towers are getting taller.
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A proposal for 270m tall wind turbines on Robbins Island has ruffled some feathers – but here’s why towering turbines are here to stay.
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Replacing wind turbines could significantly increase Britain’s power output.
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A new study claims that wind turbines kill enough birds of prey that they are effectively an ‘apex predator’.
Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo, left, speaks with Deepwater Wind CEO Jeffery Grybowski in 2016.
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Experts expect the wind business to remain brisk in the US and abroad, on land and offshore.
The price of new-build renewable energy is expected to fall significantly relative to new-build coal energy in coming years.
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The price of renewable energy will fall significantly relative to new-build coal in coming decades, making an all-renewable electricity system more desirable, both economically and environmentally.
Drax and Eggborough power stations in England.
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Why go to all that bother when you can just half-fill the kettle?
The potential to harm local birdlife is often used to oppose wind farm development. But research into how birds die shows wind farms should be the least of our concerns.
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Wind turbines kill some birds, but their contribution to total bird deaths is extremely low, as three studies show.