Thursday, 20 February 2025

Focus on Wind

FILE - A boat passes by July 2, 2024, off Sea Girt, N.J., where a power cable from the Atlantic Shores offshore wind farm project is projected to come ashore. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry, File)
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In win for Trump, oil giant Shell walks away from major New Jersey offshore wind farm

In the first serious fallout from President Donald Trump’s early actions against offshore wind power, oil and gas giant Shell is walking away...

FILE PHOTO: Mads Nipper prictured at a news conference in Bjerringbro, Denmark, March 13, 2018. Scanpix Denmark/Henning Bagger via REUTERS/File Photo
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Renewables group Orsted replaces CEO to arrest share price slump

Orsted's shares were down 0.2% at 1010 GMT, slightly underperforming Europe's blue-chip stock index.

FILE PHOTO: View of entrance to Norway's central bank in Oslo, April 20, 2023. REUTERS/Victoria Klesty/File Photo
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Norway’s wealth fund sticks to investments in renewables despite market setbacks

The fund sees offshore wind as still the best strategic target, as it is Europe-based and offers a large series of partners.

FILE PHOTO: Wind turbines are surrounded by fog at a wind farm in the mountains of Galicia region, near Vilalba, Spain March 20, 2024. REUTERS/Nacho Doce/File Photo
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Global energy transition investment exceeded $2 trln last year, report shows

Global investment in low-carbon energy transition exceeded $2 trillion for the first time last year, a report by BloombergNEF showed.

FILE - Wind turbines dot the coastline along a giant solar farm near Weifang in eastern China's Shandong province on March 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)
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China built out record amount of wind and solar power in 2024

China raced ahead building renewable energy last year, installing more wind and solar power than ever before and continuing to leave all other...

Windmills make up about 10 percent of US energy production, with the largest output in the Republican-led states of Texas, Iowa and Oklahoma (GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA)
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Trump casts chill over US wind energy sector

Trump has long ranted against wind energy with him threatening to upend decades of industry progress just a few hours after resuming power.

Trump has favoured oil and gas over wind power (GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA)
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US falling behind on wind power, think tank warns

The United States is falling behind the European Union in the rollout of wind power and risks being overtaken by China, a think...

FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: Power-generating windmill turbines are seen at an offshore wind farm, Kriegers Flak, in the Baltic Sea between Denmark, Sweden and Germany, September 6, 2021. Ritzau Scanpix/Olafur Steinar Gestsson/via REUTERS/File Photo/File Photo
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Wind, not nuclear, is the best way to meet Sweden’s climate goals, leading think tank says

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – The cheapest way for Sweden to meet its expected rise in demand for electricity and goal of net zero emissions...

Electric power transmission pylon miniatures and EDP Renovaveis logo are seen in this illustration taken, December 9, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
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Portugal’s EDP confident of its US plans despite Trump wind review

By Marwa Rashad DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) – EDP is confident its existing U.S. onshore projects will not be affected by President Trump’s wind...

FILE PHOTO: Joe Kaeser, then CEO of German industrial conglomerate Siemens, February 3, 2021. Matthias Schrader/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
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Siemens Energy sees ‘massive tailwind’ from US power drive

Shares in Siemens Energy rose nearly 10% to a record high on Wednesday.

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