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‘Second biggest market for offshore wind’: UK hosts 43% of Europe’s capacity

The UK’s offshore wind market represents more than 40% of European offshore wind capacity, The Crown Estate has found.

Port Talbot and the Port of Cromarty Firth have been chosen by the UK gov to support its offshore floating wind developments via FLOWMIS.

Retail giant Amazon has agreed with Iberdrola to procure 159MW of renewable energy from the 1.4GW East Anglia 3 offshore wind farm.

SSE Renewables and Equinor have squashed plans to produce green hydrogen directly from its offshore Dogger Bank D wind farm.

The Crown Estate has concluded its Celtic Sea Habitats Regulations Assessment (HRA) ahead of the offshore wind round five leasing process.

In this guest blog Mollie McCorkindale, senior analyst at Solar Media Market Research, discusses how the UK onshore wind market is set to boom.

Good Law Project is set to take legal action against the UK government over its policy on onshore wind planning rules in England.

In this blog, Current± takes a deep dive into wind curtailment and how this could present an opportunity for battery energy storage.

German multinational energy company RWE confirmed on 21 December that it would acquire a UK-based offshore wind portfolio totalling 4.2GW.

Danish energy company Ørsted has taken final investment decision (FID) on Hornsea 3, a 2.9GW offshore wind farm, dubbed the “world’s largest”.