There is a looming gap between supply chain capacity and government wind power targets, and developers have only a limited ability to give suppliers the certainty needed to make large investments, according to RWE offshore wind chief Sven Utermöhlen. by Craig Richard Adblock test (Why?)

Company only broke through the 2Mt mark last summer, but says new milestone was reached as sector consolidated and development of UK residual waste infrastructure stalls by Luke Walsh Adblock test (Why?)

Five European offshore wind test sites have formed HiPoTeSis, a new alliance aiming to improve conditions for floating wind demonstration projects. BiMEP, CEO, Foundation Open-C, METCEntre and Plocan have created HiPoTeSis. This collaborative network of five operational offshore demonstration test sites aims to provide the European Union with the future high-power infrastructure for testing new floating wind projects. The alliance will meet the common challenges of the sector, the most important being permitting. ”Testing and demonstration projects are absolutely necessary to bring costs down in floating offshore wind,” said Arvid Nesse, CEO of METCentre in Norway. In a seminar hosted…

Costs, revealed by an FOI, cover the five-year period of the facility’s closure up until the start of August this year, and do not include £93.5m paid out for a legal action by Luke Walsh Adblock test (Why?)

France-based carbon crediting service Riverse will be issuing just under 35,000 carbon credits to a UK-based biochar producer by Nivedita Nayak Adblock test (Why?)

The RUCO (Repurpose Used Cooking Oil) initiative, launched by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), is gaining momentum in Kerala. The state has seen a significant rise in the volume of used cooking oil collected through this program. In the 2022-2023 fiscal year, Kerala collected 419,561 liters of used oil, a figure that more than doubled to 960,605 liters in 2023-2024. In the first five months of 2024 alone, 311,030 liters have already been collected, with officials anticipating further increases in the coming months, reported The New Indian Express. As per media report, the initiative aims to…

Bihar’s Agriculture Minister, Mangal Pandey, emphasized the need for private sector investment in hybrid maize seed production and storage facilities during a maize summit organized by FICCI on Wednesday. He outlined Bihar’s ambitious goal to cultivate maize across a record 10 lakh hectares this year. As the fifth-largest maize producer in India, Bihar is seeing a shift among farmers toward maize cultivation, driven by market prices that exceed the minimum support price (MSP). “Maize is no longer just for human and animal consumption; it is now also fueling our vehicles with ethanol-blended petrol,” Pandey noted, underscoring the crop’s growing versatility.…

Haffner Energy has partnered with Bambbco, a prominent bamboo supplier in France, to enhance the availability of biomass for energy applications, particularly from crops cultivated on marginal lands, reported Bioenergy Insight. As per media report, Haffner Energy has introduced a patented thermolysis technology for biomass and organic waste, leveraging 30 years of expertise. This innovative process produces renewable hydrogen and clean fuels for industrial and mobility uses, while also generating biocarbon (char or biochar) and biogenic CO2. Bambbco focuses on nature-based solutions, utilizing various bamboo species to generate renewable energy, sequester carbon, combat soil erosion, restore the water cycle, promote…

Havfram has been awarded a contract by Vattenfall and BASF for their Nordlicht offshore wind farm cluster in the German North Sea. Havfram The Nordlicht [1]wind farm zone, located 85 kilometres north of the island of Borkum, consists of two separate sites: Nordlicht I, with an expected capacity of 980 MW, and Nordlicht II, with an expected capacity of 630 MW. For Nordlicht I, the contract covers the transportation and installation support of 68 Vestas V236-15.0 MW wind turbines, with work scheduled to commence in the summer of 2027. For Nordlicht II, Havfram will execute the transport and installation support…

The American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) has issued Approval in Principle (AiP) to the OO-STAR concrete semi-submersible floater from Bouygues Travaux Publics, a subsidiary of Bouygues Construction. Bouygues Construction The foundation can support wind turbines of more than 20 MW in harsh offshore environments, Bouygues Construction said. This achievement is said to be the first step in the company’s deployment in the US floating wind market as an engineering, procurement, construction, installation (EPCI) contractor with the OO-STAR concept. The OO-STAR floater, which includes a mooring system and general outfitting, was designed according to a database of wind and metocean patterns,…