Wind energy

Cnooc to lift offshore wind power capacity by 40% this year

Beijing has pledged to double combined wind and solar capacity by 2035

Solar panels are arranged to resemble pandas at a power plant in Datong. Even with a headlong renewables build-out, China's rising electricity consumption means that any shortfalls are met by coal generators.

China’s energy future still runs on old technology

The country already has the power grid of the future; the problem is it’s being used in a grossly inefficient manner

China is continuing to rapidly add new power capacity with huge deployments of renewable sources such as solar and wind alongside more coal, nuclear and gas facilities.

China ramps up energy boom flagged by Musk as key to AI race

Growth in generation capacity is proving slower in the US

Most of China’s new capacity is expected to come from renewables, led by wind and solar, which together would account for about 300 gigawatts of the increase.

China’s solar power capacity on course to surpass coal this year

The Asian nation runs on some of the world’s cheapest electricity at more than twice the scale of the US

"We were nobody", says founder and executive chairman of Impact Electrons Siam Peck Khamkanist.
THE LEADERSHIP PLAYBOOK

‘People laughed at us’: Naysayers blew them off – then this underdog built Asia’s first cross-border wind farm

Impact Electrons Siam is now selling electricity to Vietnam. Next stop: Singapore?

Trump has repeatedly said that he would block new wind projects, saying without evidence that “they ruin the environment; they kill the birds, they kill the whales”.

Seatrium end-customer gets reprieve after judge rejects Trump’s wind farm ban

Empire Wind developer Equinor says it would lose over US$1 billion in contracts if the project does not restart soon

President Trump campaigned for the White House on a promise to end the offshore wind industry - saying “windmills” are too expensive and hurt whales and birds - while promoting oil and gas.

US freezes five big offshore wind projects, shares dive

THE Trump administration suspended leases on Monday for five large offshore wind projects that are under construction off the US East Coast over what it called national security concerns, sending shar...

Shell announced last year that it would scale back various climate objectives in favour of oil and gas to raise profits.

Shell drops two North Sea wind projects in fossil fuel shift

BRITISH oil and gas giant Shell said on Monday that it was ending its participation in two offshore wind projects in the North Sea, part of its shift away from alternative energy to focus on its fossi...

Almost all of Seatrium’s non-oil and gas order book as at end-June 2025 is in offshore wind.
ESG INSIGHTS

Issue 167: Seatrium tosses in offshore turbulence; Singapore greenlights novel green jet fuel model

This week in ESG: Cancelled job rocks Seatrium offshore wind business; Singapore adopts fixed-cost envelope approach to adopt sustainable aviation fuel

The vessel was set to be based on Sembcorp Marine’s in-house design in collaboration with Maersk Supply Service.

Seatrium hit by US$475 million contract termination for nearly completed wind vessel; shares drop 6.6%

The company says that it will ‘explore viable solutions’, including talks with the end-customer, Empire Offshore Wind