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LATEST NEWS Mini nuclear plants can match renewables on price: Rolls-Royce Flagship MHI Vestas 9.5MW offshore wind turbine turning in Denmark Wind flies and solar slows as China builds world's biggest clean-energy play EU energy chief says 2030 renewables goal may rise as wind industry slams progress Engie and EDPR put pens to paper on offshore wind giant tie-up Oil group Galp becomes 'biggest Iberian solar player’ with $2.4bn swoop Unmanned offshore wind survey vessel makes maiden voyage 'Green hydrogen' on sale in open market at 80% higher price than grey H2 Spanish renewables hope 'climate emergency' will speed end to policy limbo Germany adds more new wind offshore than on land for first time

Flagship MHI Vestas 9.5MW offshore wind turbine turning in Denmark

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Wind flies and solar slows as China builds world's biggest clean-energy play

Engie and EDPR put pens to paper on offshore wind giant tie-up

EU may raise 2030 renewables goal as wind industry slams progress

Mini nuclear plants can match renewables on price: Rolls-Royce

'Green hydrogen' on sale in open market at 80% higher price than grey H2

Green hydrogen 'cheaper than unabated fossil-fuel H2 by 2030'

IN DEPTH

Why insurance rates for wind and solar projects are rising up to 40%

Unmanned offshore wind survey vessel makes maiden voyage

Germany adds more new wind offshore than on land for first time

IN DEPTH

Spanish renewables hope 'climate emergency' will speed end to policy limbo

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IN DEPTH

Spanish renewables hope 'climate emergency' will speed end to policy limbo

ANALYSIS

Will German stinginess and Polish blackmail wreck €1trn EU Green Deal?

IN DEPTH

Texas heatwave burns wind owners as hedge deals spark punishing losses

ANALYSIS

Tsai's Taiwan election landslide puts wind back in offshore sails

2020 Vision: five floating wind power technologies to watch this year

FACE TO FACE EXCLUSIVE

'There's no lack of interest in renewables in Spain – it's making it happen'

Seven emerging technologies vital for fighting climate change

We don't fear oil giants' competition: Enel Green Power boss

EXCLUSIVE

Iberdrola's super-scale UK offshore wind hub to use '14MW-plus' turbines

South Korean offshore wind set for $300 per MWh honey pot

Offshore wind already UK election winner as utilities warn over state control

EXCLUSIVE

Drilling starts for world's first offshore carbon capture network

'The gas grid is a resource vital for fighting climate crisis'

FACE TO FACE EXCLUSIVE

'We need increased targets for 2035 and 2040 to keep the momentum'

ANALYSIS

Renewables may profit from chaos in Germany's coalition

'If we don't believe in US offshore wind, then who will?'

Spanish wind power in limbo as elections frustrate progress

Is China's push to install 41GW of offshore wind by 2022 mission impossible?

Offshore wind could power fast-growing emerging markets solo: World Bank

EXCLUSIVE

Wind and solar's ‘variability problem’ is a myth: Irena boss

Circuit

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OPINION

'Fisheries and offshore wind must co-operate if Europe is to hit net zero'

OPINION

The six paradoxes slowing down the energy transition

OPINION

Ten reasons 2019 was an exciting year for distributed energy

OPINION

'Congress missed a chance to speed gigawatts of US offshore wind to grid'

'Lithuania: a small nation with big wind-power opportunities'

'These winds of change are mind-blowing — and can save humanity'

'Blockage-effect insight shows science of wind still evolving'

'German Nimbyism is a perverse problem that really shouldn’t exist'

'Renewable energy could save four million lives a year'

US wind developers are losing the online battle against Nimby groups

'New EU steel import quotas could harm Europe's wind sector'

Buying corporate renewable energy – a quick guide

'We must dare to think big, unconventional thoughts'

What will it take to commoditise the corporate PPA?

'Right pieces of puzzle in place to make tidal a reality for Canada'

Why wind needs to buckle up for a Boris Johnson Brexit

Gas grid must be adapted to transport hydrogen: TenneT and Gasunie

Offshore wind spearheading oil industry lower-carbon shift: DNV GL

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Offshore wind key as Rhode Island sets 100% clean-energy goal for 2030

Capital Dynamics buys US' largest solar-plus-storage project

EXCLUSIVE

Siemens Gamesa eyes more Vestas and GE service business after Senvion deal

Greece's Hellenic on US offshore roster with Mayflower cable deal

Planned boost to French offshore wind target 'still too low' says industry

AGENDA

Hydrogen hots up, EU's green dreams and how China is closing the offshore wind gap

Offshore wind major Orsted crowned world's most sustainable company

Most German offshore wind jobs created 'far inland from coasts': report

Enel's massive shift from coal to renewables 'key credit strength': S&P

Renewables veteran Douglas to join European utilities body Eurelectric

Record US wind and solar tax equity deal volume foreseen in 2020

Siemens Gamesa names new CEO for crucial India market

OPINION

'Fisheries and offshore wind must co-operate if Europe is to hit net zero'

Argentina's Genneia looks to Europe for wind-build finance

Big Oil must pump up clean energy spend to slow climate crisis: IEA

Vestas plans for 'zero-waste' wind turbines by 2040

Oil group Cepsa increases renewables focus with Masdar JV

Masdar to build largest floating solar plant in Southeast Asia

Qatar and oil giant Total to power World Cup with 'cheapest ever solar'

Vattenfall to provide wind balancing for 20% of Finland’s output

EXCLUSIVE

China lays foundation for Asia's most powerful wind turbine

Chinese oil giant plans offshore wind expansion as first turbines go in

Construction starts on world’s largest offshore wind power project

New human rights complaint over largest European onshore wind

Corporate Renewables

Macquarie in wind power deal to green metals giant Eramet

Unions slam 'appalling' UK green jobs drop after wind and solar subsidy cuts

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Draft Polish offshore wind act aims to award over 10GW by 2027

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Scotland pledges action over foreign offshore wind contracts 'scandal'

US smashes renewable energy investment record despite Trump

Pioneering wave power device anointed as market-ready

Onshore wind wins Lithuanian tech-neutral auction with zero bid

Germany to speed up renewables build-up to shutter 16GW of lignite

Offshore oil industry 'social licence to operate under threat' in UK

Corporate Renewables

IT giant Microsoft targets being 'carbon-negative' by 2030

Van Oord targets Japan offshore wind with local shipping giant

Chile's clean-energy to top 10GW in 2021 as renewables ramp up

ANALYSIS

Will German stinginess and Polish blackmail wreck €1trn EU plan?

Orsted selects Rhode Island for US offshore wind 'Innovation Hub'

Petrofac substations for Scotland’s largest offshore wind farm

Japanese heavyweights link for offshore wind at home and abroad

Shell and EDPR tap Danes for giant US offshore wind substation

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EU presents €1trn plan to 'unleash green investment wave'

Equinor executive to lead offshore wind safety body

IN DEPTH

Texas heatwave burns wind owners as hedge deals spark huge losses

Corporate Renewables

PepsiCo eyes US wind and solar deals to go '100% renewable in 2020'

US to shatter its new wind capacity record with 19GW in 2020: EIA