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Spanish nanotech employed to prevent wind turbine damage

Researchers from Spain's Jaume I University in Castellón are working on new nanomaterials to improve wind turbines’ resilience to extreme weather and...

Winds heading south pose a challenge for planners

“No challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change,” said President Barack Obama in his State of the Union address back in...

The new Global Wind Atlas: a tool to engage the wind development across the World.

Leading commercial provider of wind resource model data, Vortex, has played a key role in the development of the recently launched Global Wind Atlas 2.0...

European wind rings in 2018 on a high

The European wind industry has made a great start to the new year, generating more power in a single day on 3 January than ever before. The figure was...

Floating wind farms set to rule the waves

Research by the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) suggests floating turbines could account for almost 50% of the 55GW of global offshore wind capacity...

European wind industry contributes billions to EU’s GDP

New report, ‘Local Impact, Global Leadership’ by Deloitte for WindEurope and published last week shows the European wind industry contributed €36 billion...

DOE’s new grid study concludes wind energy is not a threat to supply reliability

The United States Department of Energy (DOE) released its long-awaited Staff Report to the Secretary on Electricity Markets and Reliability yesterday,...

ERA5 Vortex downscaling validation results to be presented in Amsterdam

Downscaling of ERA5 reanalysis has been implemented into the whole Vortex modeling chain and has passed demanding internal tests that shown, among other...