- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- November 6, 2020
Wind Power Trap Threatens to Make the UK the New California
... … … Editor’s Note: Boris Johnson, who rejected fracking, now wants to take the United Kingdom right into the wind power trap just like the idiots in California.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 15, 2020
Virginia wind project passes reliability testing
Dominion Energy announced on Wednesday that its $300 million Virginia offshore wind project has successfully completed its reliability testing and is getting closer to beginning commercial operations, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 9, 2020
Grant to fund training for offshore wind workers
The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center has awarded $124,670 to VINCI VR, in partnership with Siemens Gamesa Energy, to develop virtual reality training for U.S.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 8, 2020
Total buys into emerging French floating offshore wind sector
Total announced Wednesday it has acquired a 20% stake in the EolMed floating offshore wind pilot project in France, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 5, 2020
Vestas closes September with series of new contracts
Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas has finished out September with a series of new orders totalling more than 1.45 gigawatts, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 25, 2020
German, Scottish wind associations ink cooperation deal
German wind power association WAB and Scottish wind consortium DeepWind have signed a three-year cooperation agreement to develop a market for green hydrogen from wind power.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 23, 2020
UK’s Dogger Bank places record-breaking turbine order
The world’s soon-to-be largest offshore wind farm has broken a new record on Tuesday, placing the biggest turbine order for GE’s 13-megawatt (MW) Haliade-X model, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 18, 2020
Ohio board rescinds night ban on Lake Erie wind project
An Ohio regulatory agency has dropped a requirement that would have banned a 20.7-megawatt offshore wind farm in Lake Erie from operating at night, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 18, 2020
China’s offshore wind boom to boost steel demand
The anticipated boom in the Chinese offshore wind market is set to boost steel demand, offering slate and pipe producers advantageous opportunities, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 11, 2020
Offshore Wind Is Really A Pirate Ship on the Sea of Subsidies
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Offshore wind only survives due to subsidies created by government and wind developers are more like pirates than entrepreneurs.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 11, 2020
bp invests $1.1B in first offshore wind move
bp announced Thursday a $1.1 billion investment to enter the offshore wind sector, purchasing a 50% stake in two major developments in the U.S.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 10, 2020
Equinor eyes Japanese offshore wind market
Equinor said Wednesday it has partnered up with utilities Jera and J-Power to jointly bid in Japan’s planned first offshore wind auction, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 4, 2020
Ocean City Left Blowin’ in the Wind, Just Like Fracking
... … … [Editor Comment: Ocean City, Maryland, and its economic interests have been ignored, just like fracking, in the mad pursuit of green government rent and virtue.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 2, 2020
Total, Macquarie to build 2.3 GW of floating offshore wind in Korea
Total and Macquarie’s Green Investment Group (GIG) announced Tuesday a 50-50 joint venture to develop over 2 gigawatts (GW) of floating offshore wind capacity in South Korea, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 28, 2020
New offshore wind capacity of 2.5GW in operation during H1 2020
An additional 2.5 gigawatts of new offshore wind capacity was added during the first half of 2020, according to the World Forum Offshore Wind (WFO), Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 19, 2020
UK’s Dogger Bank wind project secures 15-year PPA
Energy trading company Danske Commodities has inked a 15-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with the world’s largest offshore wind farm, Dogger Bank.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 14, 2020
RWE to sell minority stake in UK offshore wind farm: report
German utility RWE is reportedly planning to sell a minority stake in its UK’s Humber Gateway offshore wind farm, with Morgan Stanley to launch the deal.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 31, 2020
Eneco, Shell win Dutch tender for innovative offshore wind farm
The Netherlands awarded the tender for the subsidy-free offshore wind farm Hollandse Kust (noord) to CrossWind – a joint venture between Shell and Eneco, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 21, 2020
German offshore wind industry calls for incentive system
The German offshore wind industry has called on the government to consider an “efficient” levy system to expand the country’s offshore wind capacity to support its green transition.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 17, 2020
Early design work on Scotland’s H100 project complete
The preliminary engineering design work on a new zero-carbon hydrogen project in Scotland has been completed, Kallanish Energy reports. Engineering and consulting firm Wood announced on Wednesday that the initial engineering design services for the H100 Fife project have been successfully delivered to the candidate site in Machrihanish, on the west coast of Scotland.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 16, 2020
Electricity Prices About to Spike Big Time in Virginia
... … … [Editor Comment: Electricity prices are about to go up in a major way for Virginians, thanks to Governor Ralph Northam’s off-shore wind debacle at the expense of ratepayers.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 9, 2020
Ørsted signs world’s largest long-term PPA for offshore wind
Danish offshore wind leader Ørsted signed on Wednesday the world’s largest long-term power purchase agreement (PPA) with Taiwan’s semiconductor company TSMC.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 24, 2020
Offshore Wind Could Have Major Adverse Impact on Commercial Fisheries
... … … [Editor’s Note: Offshore wind is hugely expensive compared to natural gas and could have major adverse impacts on commercial fisheries according to a government study.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 4, 2020
SSE, Total take FID in Scotland’s largest offshore wind project
SSE Renewables sanctioned on Wednesday a £3 billion ($3.77 billion) offshore wind project, set to be Scotland’s largest wind farm, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 4, 2020
EDF, partners start construction of $2.24B Fécamp project
EDF Renewables, Enbridge and wpd have begun the construction of the €2 ($2.24) billion offshore wind project after a 10-year planning stage, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 3, 2020
EDF enters Chinese offshore wind market
French energy group EDF said Tuesday it has finalized the creation of a joint venture with China Energy Investment Corporation (CEI) to run offshore wind projects in China.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 29, 2020
First turbine foundation installed in US offshore waters
The first offshore wind monopile or turbine foundation in U.S. federal waters has been installed in the Atlantic Ocean off Virginia, Kallanish Energy has learned.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 19, 2020
Equinor to start quarterly reports on US business results
Norway’s Equinor said Monday it will start reporting financial results for its U.S. business as a separate operating segment: Exploration and Production International.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 8, 2020
Enbridge sees big drop in volumes on Mainline oil pipeline
Canadian pipeline giant Enbridge reported a first quarter 2020 net loss of $1.429 billion or 71 cents per common share, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 6, 2020
Northam Exploits WuFlu Crisis to Lead Virginia Into Green Swamp
... … … Ralph Northam, the Virginia Governor who somehow survived a blackface incident, is taking advantage of the WuFlu to lead his state into green quicksand.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 5, 2020
Germany Just Keeps Digging A Hole with Renewables
... … … High electricity prices, subsidies galore, an angry public and missed CO2 targets. But Germany just keeps digging a renewables hole with off-shore wind.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 25, 2020
Oman plans to install offshore wind farms in Arabian Sea
Oman reportedly is planning to build offshore wind farms in the Arabian Sea, a plan that complements the country’s desire to install and increase high power generation capacity from renewable resources, Kallanish Energy learns.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- December 12, 2019
New Jersey Doubles Down on Stupidity with Offshore Wind
... … … New Jersey is rushing to turn the Garden State into a gargantuan monument to political stupidity with offshore wind projects that are totally uneconomic.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- November 21, 2019
US’s first floating wind farm could be off Maine
The University of Maine is moving forward with plans for the first full-scale offshore floating turbine in the U.S., Kallanish Energy understands.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- November 5, 2019
Wind Turbine Disposal Issue Shows There’s No Free Renewables Lunch
... … … Shocker! Getting rid of an old wind turbine is proving to be quite an issue and a high expense, showing renewables are neither free nor especially green.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- November 4, 2019
Offshore Wind, The Green Energy Scam for All Time
Paul Driessen Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow …. …. Offshore wind is a major scam. It makes no economic sense whatsoever, requires massive support infrastructure, disturbs oceans and accomplishes little.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 28, 2019
Offshore wind set to be $1T business by 2040: IEA
Offshore wind should become a $1 trillion business by 2040, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said Friday, with global capacity set for a 15-fold increase, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 8, 2019
Ocean City Demonstrates Off-Shore Wind Is No Easy Sell
... … … Green new dealers always make it sound as if their projects face no obstacles, have no impacts and are widely desired but Ocean City shows that’s not true.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 23, 2019
Turbine maintenance firm moving to Rhode Island
The push to transform Rhode Island into a hub for the offshore wind industry could soon take another step forward with the proposed move of a second British turbine maintenance company into the state, Kallanish Energy understands.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 14, 2019
Trump administration upsets offshore wind plans
The Trump administration has ordered a major environmental review of the growing offshore wind industry – a review that some experts see as derailing the nation’s first major project and raises questions concerning future developments, Kallanish Energy learns.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 7, 2019
Offshore Wind Is No Easy Sell and Carries A High Environmental Price
... … … Offshore wind projects along the East Coast are being regularly challenged successfully on environmental impact grounds, especially by fishermen.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 30, 2019
More Power Outages Coming to New York, Thanks to Cuomo
... … … If you live in New York State you can expect more power outages thanks to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s pandering attempts to curry favor with green energy scammers.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 19, 2019
Cuomo Tilts at Windmills As New Yorkers Pay Confiscatory Electric Rates
Ken Girardin Policy Analyst, Empire Center for Public Policy, Inc. Andrew Cuomo, since becoming governor, has repeatedly stuck it to New York electric ratepayers and now he’s embarking on yet another windy boondoggle.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 15, 2019
Offshore Wind Fiascos Illustrate the Absurdity of Climate Change Policies
... … … Offshore wind projects make little environmental and no economic sense. They are boondoggles and reflect the rent-seeking corporatism behind climate policy.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 19, 2019
EU scolds 15 countries on renewables target
Industry association WindEurope said Tuesday the European Commission called out 15 countries for not meeting their renewables targets, Kallanish Energy learns.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 17, 2019
IEA: Decarbonization key for Ireland
The International Energy Agency (IEA) said Monday Ireland has “successfully advanced the transformation” of its energy mix, especially in the power sector, Kallanish Energy learns.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 28, 2019