The world’s most powerful wind turbine – the Vestas V236-15.0 MW offshore prototype – has produced its first power.  It’s now fully installed at the Østerild Test Center for large wind turbines in Western Jutland, Denmark, and it will undergo an extensive test and verification program before full type certification and serial production begins. The…

The UK’s Dogger Bank, which will become the world’s largest offshore wind farm once it’s completed in 2026, will need to remove unexploded ordnance (UXO) items before it can proceed. The UXO items were identified during an inspection campaign last year, and they’ll be cleared in February. Dogger Bank is being built in three 1.2 GW phases…

Big global companies have secured a record 36.7 gigawatts (GW) of clean energy to power their operations in 2022, up 18% from 2021 – and big tech bought the most, according to a new report. BloombergNEF’s (BNEF) “1H 2023 Corporate Energy Market Outlook” assessed 167 big corporations that announced power purchase agreements (PPAs) in 36 markets worldwide.…

All new cars sold in New Jersey will have to be zero emissions from 2035, Governor Phil Murphy (D-NJ) announced yesterday. All cars zero emission by 2035 As Electrek previously reported, New Jersey’s Department of Environmental Protection called for a gas car sales ban by 2035 in October 2020. Murphy’s new executive orders are the next…

TravelCenters of America (TA) has inked an agreement with Electrify America to offer EV charging at select TA/Petro locations, with the first stations planned to be deployed in 2023. With a goal of installing approximately 1,000 individual chargers at 200 locations along major highways over five years, TA says it will purchase Electrify America’s DC…

E-commerce giant Amazon is funding the world’s first commercial-scale offshore wind seaweed farm that will sit between turbines – and this project has the potential to achieve a lot of great things. Offshore wind seaweed farm The North Sea Farm 1 project, off the Netherlands coast, will consist of a a 10-hectare (25-acre) seaweed…

Wind turbines usually consist of one turbine with a set of blades, but Norway’s Wind Catching Systems thinks its floating multi-turbine offshore wind technology will make clean energy more efficiently. Floating multi-turbine offshore wind The 320-meter-tall (1,050-foot-high) unit – that’s just 33 feet shorter than the Eiffel Tower – is made up of a…

Ørsted’s huge Hornsea Four offshore wind project and a BP-led carbon capture project are at loggerheads because the two projects’ footprints are overlapping in the North Sea. The Endurance carbon capture and storage project and Hornsea Four, both off the east coast of England, are clashing due to boats used to monitor carbon leaks…

Entergy Mississippi has launched a new direct current fast-charging station pilot project – the first company-owned EV charging station of its kind in Entergy Corporation’s four-state service area. Located at Renaissance at Colony Park in Ridgeland, the company’s $200,000 fast charging station will serve both residents and EV drivers passing through on I-55 and nearby…

Wind turbine giant Siemens Gamesa announced today that it’s going to build a large offshore wind nacelle factory in New York State – giving the fledgling yet mushrooming US offshore wind industry yet another boost. A nacelle is the housing on top of a wind turbine’s tower that contains the rotor and generator. It…