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Turbines of the WindFloat Atlantic Project, a floating offshore wind-power generating platform, are seen 20 kilometers off the coast in Viana do Castelo, Portugal, September 23, 2021. REUTERS/Violeta Santos Moura/ File Photo
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Portugal keen to create offshore wind cluster, could reach 10 gigawatts

Portugal advances offshore wind plans with a 10 GW goal, approving four ocean zones for upcoming renewable energy auctions.

John Swinney visited the Coalburn 1 construction site (Jane Barlow/PA)
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Battery storage sites deemed ‘formidable’ for Scotland’s energy future

Scotland secures £800m for Europe’s largest battery storage sites, boosting renewables and grid resilience efforts.

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Status update: UK offshore wind farms

The UK’s offshore wind farms are vital to its net-zero target, aiming for 50 GW by 2030 to power millions of homes and...

Arthur C. Blue, right, and Kimbrelle Eugene Kyereh talk about the changed landscape of the town they grew up in, alongside the IMTT facility in the Elkinsville section of St. Rose, La., Friday, Aug. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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With carbon capture boom, a wariness in historic Louisiana Black community over more pollution

Residents of historic Black town fight a planned ammonia plant, citing health risks from pollution while state backs project.

FILE - The first operating South Fork Wind farm turbine is seen 35 miles east of Montauk Point, N.Y., on Dec. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson, File)
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US chooses winning bids in first commercial sale for floating offshore Atlantic wind

The U.S. government awarded nearly $22 million in bids for floating offshore wind leases off New England, advancing clean energy goals.

Scotland became home to the first offshore floating wind farm in 2017 (PA)
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Giant floating wind farms could destroy Scotland’s fishing industry, sector warns

The Scottish fishing industry warns that floating wind farms threaten its survival, urging government action to protect it.

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Sunly, a renewable energy producer, raises €300 million to strengthen energy security and supercharge renewable projects across the Baltics and Poland

TALLINN, Estonia, Aug. 27, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sunly, a leading renewable energy producer, has raised €300 million in debt financing to accelerate...

Two workers install a bifacial 540 W solar panel at a solar panels park by energy supplier Enel Green Power, in Trino Italy, March 5, 2024.
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Sunly raises €300 million for renewable projects in Baltics and Poland

Construction of 1.3GW of Sunly solar farms, wind projects and energy storage schemes will help boost eastern Europe as it decouples from Russian...

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Norway’s sovereign wealth fund commits $1 billion to renewable energy fund

Norway's sovereign wealth fund has said it will commit $1bn to the latest renewable energy fund of Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners

FILE - Giant wind turbine blades for the Vineyard Winds project are stacked on racks in the harbor, July 11, 2023, in New Bedford, Mass. The maker of a massive wind turbine blade that broke apart off Nantucket Island and washed up on the beaches says a manufacturing problem was responsible. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)
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GE Vernova says manufacturing problem behind wind turbine blade breaking off Nantucket Island

GE Vernova will reinspect 150 turbine blades after a manufacturing issue at a Canadian factory caused a blade to break and wash ashore...

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