Tag: offshore wind
US Offshore Wind Farm Gets An Assist From “Heerema’s Workhorse”
The US offshore wind industry is still showing signs of life with the arrival of Thliaf, a gigantic semi-submersible crane vessel that is gearing up to help build the 810-megawatt Empire Wind project off the coast of Long Island.
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Ports Plugging In: From Ground Vehicles To Ocean Shipping
Ports around the world face an enormous sustainability challenge. Currently responsible for approximately 3% of global carbon emissions, maritime operations and related logistics are under intense scrutiny to reduce their environmental impact. The 30-year roadmap outlined in my port electrification series provides a detailed, phased strategy to transition ports fully … [continued]
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Floating Offshore Wind Turbines Are Getting A Vertical Axis Makeover — Here’s Why
The Swedish startup SeaTwirl is on track to scale up its vertical axis floating offshore wind turbine for a demonstration funded by the EU agency Horizon Europe.
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Clean Energy Just Put China’s CO2 Emissions into Reverse for 1st Time
For the first time, the growth in China’s clean power generation has caused the nation’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to fall despite rapid power demand growth. The new analysis for Carbon Brief shows that China’s emissions were down 1.6% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2025 and by 1% in … [continued]
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30 Years Later: The Port That Turned Batteries, Data, and Wind into New Profit
By the time a port reaches the twenty-year mark on a thirty-year decarbonization roadmap the engineering problems are largely solved and the hard infrastructure is mostly in place; what remains is equal parts disciplined execution, digital finesse and opportunistic scaling. This logical progression builds upon the successful groundwork established in the … [continued]
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