A division of Russian engineer Rosatom has begun work on a 300MW wind farm in the Republic of Dagestan in the northern Caucasus. The project will be carried out in…

Award-winning British actor Idris Elba aims to develop a wind farm in Sierra Leone with UK utility Octopus Energy. Octopus said on Tuesday it had submitted detailed plans to the…

Sweden has vetoed the construction of 13 offshore wind farms in the Baltic Sea, saying they could impede military operations. The rejected farms together would have had around 30GW of…

The African Development Bank (AfDB) is to loan $54m towards meeting the $225m cost of Mozambique’s first wind farm. Funding is also being supplied by the Sustainable Energy Fund for…

The Danish Energy Agency has approved construction for German utility RWE’s 1.1GW Thor offshore wind farm, clearing the way for work to start in the spring. The plan is to…

Norway has again proposed offering subsidies worth some $3.3bn to encourage bids in the country’s first tender for a floating wind farm, Reuters reports. The figure appeared yesterday in the…

A combination of inflating commodity costs and high interest rates has forced Denmark to postpone the start of work on the first of its planned “energy islands” for at least…

Ethiopia has agreed a deal with a Dubai renewables developer AMEA to develop the Horn of Africa’s biggest wind farm. The letter-of-award was signed by Ahmed Shide, Ethiopia’s finance minister,…

The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) yesterday raised nearly $93m in an auction for two lease areas for wind power sites off the coasts of Delaware, Maryland, and…

Morocco is looking for a consultant to do a feasibility study on an offshore wind project that could be Africa’s first. The Moroccan Agency for Sustainable Energy (Masen) and the…

The Chinese government has approved a plan put forward by the People’s Municipal Government of Shanghai to build more than 29GW of offshore wind capacity. The plan, reported in the…

Norway-headquartered energy developer Equinor last month broke ground on a project to turn New York City’s South Brooklyn Marine Terminal into a construction hub for Equinor’s first US offshore wind…

A consortium of Vinci and Siemens has won a €2.9bn contract from German utility 50Hertz to design, build and install two converter stations to bring wind power from the North…

Wind farms off the coast of New York could power green hydrogen production at below $2 a kilogram by 2030, say researchers at the US state-funded National Renewable Energy Laboratory…

The European Investment Bank (EIB) has agreed a €1.2bn loan for a major offshore wind farm in Denmark. The 1.1GW Thor scheme being built by German utility RWE will consist…

Belgian grid operator Elia has awarded the contract to design and build four substations on the world’s first “energy island” in the North Sea. The planned Princess Elisabeth Island, which…

Hoffmann Green Cement and green energy developer The Valorem Group have poured the world’s first wind turbine foundation made from 0% clinker decarbonised concrete. It’s for the Plaine des Moulins…

The Swedish arm of German offshore wind company Skyborn Renewables has submitted an application to the Swedish government to build a giant wind farm off Sweden’s northeastern coast. The 3GW…