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Around the world, nations are choosing to prioritize economic growth and national interest over climate policy.

Big news in renewable energy production: The world's largest floating wind farm has just successfully produced its first power.[...]

A Norwegian company wants to help Norway reach its goal of harnessing 30,000 megawatts of offshore wind by 2040 with its new vertical turbines. World Wide Wind claims it has developed a turbine with a maximum output of 40...

Virginia is about the get the biggest wind farm in the U.S. The state has just agreed to let Dominion Energy build a 176-turbine wind farm 27 miles off Virginia Beach’s coast.[...]

Several U.S. states are repurposing closed-down coal plants into solar plants and wind farms. Among the states that have made the transition include Illinois, which is currently leading the pack. Nine coal plants will become...

Green supporters of renewable energy are horrified at the devastation construction has wrought on pristine Cairns wilderness.

On Monday, President Biden announced that he intends for the U.S. electricity sector to be carbon neutral by 2035. His sights are set on lots of wind energy and lots of jobs.[...]

In a bid to clamp down on the NIMBY (“not in my backyard”) opposition to wind farms, international design collective Prototype 2030 has created a two-part proposal that would turn wind turbines into interactive public...

About this time last year, I wrote a light-hearted review of New Zealand’s love affair with Wind Generation. Since then I’ve become interested in seeing just how effective these things really are. Where I live adjacent...

With 3,427 miles of coastline, one would think establishing wind farms in California would be a cinch. As it turns out, the depth of the waters has kept the idea of offshore wind in this area at bay. Energy companies have...

The world's most powerful wind turbine was just installed off the coast of Scotland. Developer Vattenfall announced this week it completed the installation of 11 turbines in Aberdeen Bay - two of which were upgraded with...

One of the United States' biggest electric utilities, American Electric Power (AEP) is planning to build a two-gigawatt wind farm - and they want consumers to pay for it...

The world's first unsubsidized offshore wind farms are currently under construction in the Netherlands. The underlying economics of offshore wind energy have become so favorable in the country that the projects will require...

Nearly 35,000 wild reindeer make their home in the southern mountains of Norway - "the last remaining viable populations in Europe," according to Reuters...

Offshore wind farms keep getting bigger and bigger. Ørsted, formerly DONG Energy, just began offshore construction on Hornsea Project One, the latest offshore wind project poised to claim the "world's largest" trophy. The...