On the East Coast, vociferous opposition to offshore wind installations has sprung up, often due to claims that the wind turbines are an eyesore – though many of the projects are located so far ...

To stay on track, the EU needs to install 30 GW of new wind farms annually, but it only managed 13 GW in 2024 – 11.4 GW onshore and 1.4 GW offshore. This is what’s holding the EU back from ...

Offshore wind developers — like they’ve ... economic and other pre-approval analysis for wind turbines have been especially rigorous. But Van Drew highlighted that the pause would allow ...

Three corporations hold leases to build floating wind turbines in the 376-square-mile Morro Bay Wind Energy Area about 20 miles offshore of Cambria and San Simeon. During the next year ...

Apr. 25, 2024 — Interactions between wind turbines could reduce power output by 30% in proposed offshore wind farm areas along the East Coast, new research has found. In all, the farms could ...

The Australian renewables sector is hoping to grab a bigger share of global investment if US President Donald Trump makes good on his promise to ban offshore wind turbines in the United States.

Long dependent on fossil fuels before emerging as a champion of offshore wind power, Orsted has seen its share price fall 80 percent since January 2021. The return of Donald Trump to the White ...

a company preparing to build New Jersey's first offshore wind power project. The industry faces another threat. Rep. Jeff Van Drew, (R-2nd) who represents southern New Jersey, announced he was ...

Trump has a long history of opposition to wind power, and on the campaign trail in 2023, made similar claims that offshore wind farms kill whales. These assertions were not backed up by evidence ...

A glaring example is Germany’s 900-megawatt (MW) Borkum Riffgrund 3 offshore wind farm. The turbines are ready to go, but the grid connection won’t be in place until 2026. This issue isn’t ...

“There’s just no way to meet the demand of the power that’s needed on the grid in certain parts of the country without offshore wind farms,” she says. “If we do have a speed bump in ...