RALEIGH, N.C. — Duke Energy accepted $129 million in taxpayer money to buyout an offshore wind lease, making it the latest company to accept such an offer from Trump’s Department of the Interior. Northeast states and California have filed lawsuits in recent weeks against the federal government for similar agreements. These are the latest ... [continued]
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Washington, D.C. — According to reporting, Donald Trump is paying Invenergy $765 million to abandon its four offshore wind leases. This comes days after the administration voluntarily dismissed its own appeal in an ongoing legal challenge against Donald Trump’s executive order to ban wind development in the United States. The administration also issued ... [continued]
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Washington, D.C. — The Trump administration has voluntarily dismissed its own appeal in a lawsuit challenging Donald Trump’s executive order banning wind project development in the United States. This effectively ends the unlawful, sweeping ban on wind power. Attorneys General from 17 states and Washington, D.C. challenged this executive order ... [continued]
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Offshore wind projects can bring hundreds of new jobs to their host states, as illustrated by the Sunrise Wind project in New York.
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NORTHEAST — Today, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Vermont sued the Trump administration over the U.S. Department of the Interior’s $1 billion buyout of TotalEnergies’ offshore wind leases, a move that led the company to abandon its U.S. offshore wind projects in exchange for doubling down on ... [continued]
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With many gigawatts' worth of wind power surging along the West Coast, California is forging new ties with the global floating wind industry.
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Offshore wind stakeholders in California are moving forward with plans to develop 25 gigawatts by 2045, despite the sharp U-turn in federal energy policy.
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A vast and well-organized campaign is actively underway to suspend global wind energy discourse. The Financial Times calls it the US president’s “crusade against renewable energy.” WindEurope, who describe themselves as “the voice of the wind energy industry,” say attacks on wind power pose a “systemic risk to Europe’s security.” ... [continued]
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Before a single offshore wind turbine rises off Philippine waters, something else has to be built first. Not at sea, but on land. Across San Miguel Bay in Bicol and the Guimaras Strait in Western Visayas, the country’s most advanced offshore wind zones are beginning to reveal a hard truth ... [continued]
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The Philippines has always been offshore or onshore wind viable. No one was looking. No one was feeling the breeze. It is asking how quickly it can turn a clearly defined pipeline into actual electricity on the grid. The answer, based on current data, is far from straightforward. San Miguel ... [continued]
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The useful way to understand U.S. wind energy in 2026 is to start with a contradiction. In physical terms, it remains one of the largest and most important wind markets in the world. In policy terms, it has become less stable and less predictable in a short period. The dichotomy ... [continued]
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Ontario’s return to renewable procurement is the clearest sign that one of Canada’s largest electricity markets has accepted a reality it spent years resisting. The timing is propitious as I prepare to provide an update to a global audience on North American wind energy through the World Wind Energy Association. ... [continued]
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CVOW Is On Track to Be the Largest Offshore Wind Project in the United States HAMPTON ROADS, Va. — This week, the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind Project (CVOW) began delivering affordable, reliable, and renewable offshore wind power to Virginia. When construction is complete, CVOW’s 176 wind turbines will power up to ... [continued]
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The 2.6-gigawatt Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind has survived the Trump chopper and is delivering electricity to the US grid.
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An Irish energy client was speaking with governmental contacts recently, and HVDC risk came up. Not the usual high-level question of whether HVDC is needed for long-distance offshore transmission, because that answer is often yes once projects get large and far enough from shore, but the more awkward question of ... [continued]
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Another offshore wind win is tipping the score sheet in favor of renewables. At first glance, you may find it hard to believe that offshore wind is up-and-running and providing clean energy to communities. The Trump administration would like you to think that offshore wind is a losing proposition, and, ... [continued]
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US President Donald Trump has failed to stop the US offshore wind industry, but a billion-dollar bribe may tempt the French firm TotalEnergies to back off.
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The US offshore wind industry is still alive and kicking with multiple gigawatts' worth of clean electricity heading for the nation's grid.
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A new floating wind turbine that shaves the cost of labor, equipment, and materials has just reached a key certification milestone from the global risk management firm.
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This next-generation offshore wind vessel from Singapore will install the turbines for the 810-megawatt Empire Wind project, where construction is under way off the coast of New York.
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Any serious discussion of renewable energy on Oʻahu should begin with a clear understanding of how much electricity the island actually needs once fossil fuel end uses are electrified. Earlier analysis constructed a fully electrified civilian energy Sankey for Oʻahu that removed overseas aviation fuel, international maritime bunkering, and military ... [continued]
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The latest announcement about Hinkley Point C was predictable. The first reactor at the plant in Somerset is now expected to begin generating electricity in 2030. The cost estimate has climbed again, now reaching roughly £35B in 2015 pounds or about £49B in current money according to Electricité de France. ... [continued]
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VinGroup is on the move again. Its energy arm, VinEnergo, is asking the market to take a longer view of energy production as it disclosed an initial 10 GW international portfolio by signing development agreements across the Philippines, Denmark, and Sweden. In the course of three years, the company will ... [continued]
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The massive, 2.6-gigawatt Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project is one of five offshore projects to survive the Trump chopper, adding another 2.6 gigawatts to the nation's clean power profile.
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US President Donald Trump swept back into office on a mission to stop the domestic offshore wind industry in its tracks. That is actually something any idiot could accomplish with the swipe of a pen. All you need to do is yank the federal leases that offshore developers depend on, ... [continued]
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