Engineering
Offshore wind farms bring environmental benefits throughout their life cycle. This understanding emerges from a study published in the international journal Sustainable Production and Consumption in which researchers from ...
Jul 7, 2023
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Business
As much as 20% of regional power needs along the Atlantic coast could be served by offshore wind farms by 2050, according to researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) who ...
Oct 10, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
As California aims to provide 60% of its energy from renewable sources by 2030 and 100% by 2045, a study from California Polytechnic State University provides some good news. Offshore winds along the Central Coast increase ...
Sep 9, 2020
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Engineering
Offshore wind farms can reduce the availability of downstream wind resources of other farms by as much as 20% within 50 kilometers, due to so-called wake effects. "Wake effect" is the turbulence that occurs in the wake of ...
Oct 31, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
The renewable energy industry needs to adopt the ideas of a circular economy, where equipment is designed to be reused or remanufactured when it reaches the end of its operational life.
Aug 19, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
Offshore wind is playing an important role in Europe's shift to renewables.
Mar 11, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
An offshore wind developer is opening a hub in Providence that its executives hope will help accelerate the takeoff of the industry in the United States.
Feb 29, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
The hurrying pace of societal electrification is encouraging from a climate perspective. But the transition away from fossil fuels toward renewable sources like wind presents new risks that are not yet fully understood.
Jan 24, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Offshore wind projects are facing an economic crisis that erased billions of U.S. dollars in planned spending this weekâjust as the world needs clean energy more than ever.
Jul 24, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Injecting large amounts of offshore wind power into the U.S. electrical grid is manageable, will cut electricity costs, and will reduce pollution compared to current fossil fuel sources, according to researchers from the ...
Feb 21, 2017
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