Tag: UK offshore wind
Why HVDC Export Cables Are An Underappreciated Risk In Offshore Wind
An Irish energy client was speaking with governmental contacts recently, and HVDC risk came up. Not the usual high-level question of whether HVDC is needed for long-distance offshore transmission, because that answer is often yes once projects get large and far enough from shore, but the more awkward question of … [continued]
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UK Gets More Offshore Wind As Trump Tries To Block It
At every stage of technological development, you get laggards who don’t want to move forward and make that new technology into some kind of massive risk or problem. That has been proven quite definitively with clean energy technologies. Solar power and wind power come with so many benefits and so … [continued]
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Loads Of Renewable Energy Can Be Stored In The Air (Liquid Air, That Is)
The idea of storing renewable energy in a tank of liquid air has been bubbling under the CleanTechnica radar ever since the UK firm Highview Power proposed building one such facility in Vermont back in 2019. That project never materialized, but the dream of air-sourced, long duration energy storage refuses … [continued]
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New Offshore Wind Study Confirms The Obvious: A Malevolently Incompetent Clown Is Steering The US Clown Car
A new report from the consulting group OpenWater Renewables indicates that concrete can help reduce the cost of floating offshore wind platforms.
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Renewable Energy Provided More Than 50% Of UK Electricity In 2024
Key headlines Renewable generation was a record 144.7 TWh in 2024, up 6.5 per cent from 2023, with new capacity more than offsetting less favourable weather conditions. Increased generation was driven by record levels of generation from bioenergy, wind, and solar PV. Renewable’s share of electricity generation was 50.8 per … [continued]
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