US wind power installations will reach about 11GW this year – the highest annual total since 2022 – as developers rush to secure valuable tax credits before they are phased out, according to new figures from Wood Mackenzie.
Shrinking manufacturing options for offshore wind turbines are causing prices to spike in Europe’s offshore wind sector, according to a new study from Rystad Energy.
The far-right Reform party in the UK has doubled down on its plans to cancel contracts for difference (CfDs) for wind farms in the country if it were in government, and claimed suggestions that this could deter investors was “scaremongering”.
Chinese certification bodies, alongside Goldwind and the Three Gorges Corporation, have successfully installed a floating offshore wind prototype platform featuring a single 16MW wind turbine at an offshore site in China.
The Trump administration is blocking 228 wind projects across the US, mostly because of alleged national security issues, according to the American Clean Power Association (ACP).
