wind power

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

Japan should work with Scotland’s national floating wind test centre, the EMEC, and Norway’s Marine Energy Test Centre (top), the METCentre to draw on their extensive experience, says Masakatsu Terazaki, chairman of the Floating Offshore Wind Technology Research Association.

Japan to start planning floating wind test centre next year

The country is targeting 45 GW of offshore wind pipeline by 2040

The Philippines' green energy auction programme is targeting for the country’s first offshore wind farm projects to begin operations between 2028 and 2030.

Offshore wind power projects in the Philippines cast sails in uncharted waters

Policy support is clear, say experts, but regulatory and cost concerns pose uncertainty

US President Donald Trump has aggressively and specifically targeted wind power in his larger crusade against clean energy, often characterising it as a bird-killing eyesore.

Trump to halt development of another offshore wind farm

The project is being developed by US Wind and will consist of as many as 114 wind turbines about 18.5 kilometres off the coast of Ocean City, Maryland

The 62-turbine wind farm is under construction about 22.2 kilometres off Martha’s Vineyard.

Trump yanks millions of hectares of ocean designated for wind power

The move applies to more than 1.4 million hectares of federal waters across the Gulf of America, Gulf of Maine, the New York Bight, California, Oregon, and the Central Atlantic

The company said the US business, comprising 10 operating wind assets, would be bought by American company LS Power for an undisclosed amount.

BP to sell onshore wind business in US

BP is seeking to cut cleaner energy investment by more than US$5 billion annually

Major South-east Asian economies have 2.9 GW of data centre capacity in the pipeline, Ember notes.

Solar, wind energy could power a third of Asean data centres in 2030: report

But funding, policy support, market access and infrastructure planning will be needed to meet this target, says think tank

Outside of China, the wind industry has struggled in recent years due to rising costs for materials such as steel and cement.

Top Thai wind power firm to fund 65 billion baht of spending with IPO

The wind generator’s expansion plan dovetails with the government’s goal of adding around 16,000 megawatts of renewable power capacity, including atomic energy, from 2026 to 2037

An Asean power grid can not only help the region decarbonise, but also insulate against energy shocks
THINKING ALOUD

Clean energy trade in Asean has the wind beneath its wings

Potential wind energy export from Vietnam a positive step towards regional grid

In the US, wind turbine installations last year fell to their lowest level in a decade. Delays in connecting to the grid and uncertainty about Biden-era tax and subsidy policies were part of the problem, as  was a general slump that is making suppliers reluctant to invest.

Wind’s doldrums are a clue to energy’s trade-war future

Trade protections are relegating the industry to a small-scale future