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AXA Consortium in Talks to Buy Stake in Orsted’s UK Offshore Wind Farm

Denmark’s Orsted A/S is in talks with a consortium that includes AXA SA and a Credit Agricole SA unit to sell a stake in a large wind farm off the east coast of England, according to people familiar with the …

Storms With Hurricane Gusts Set to Batter NW Europe, Driving Wind Power Generation

Storms across northwest Europe are set to drive electricity generation from wind farms to records this week in gusty conditions that threaten to disrupt transportation and down power lines. Weather forecasters in the UK, France and Germany warned high-speed winds …

Wind Turbine Maker Vestas’ Shares Drop as Cyber Attack Risks Output Delays

Shares in Vestas Wind Systems A/S dropped to a two-week low after one of the world’s top makers of wind turbines was hit by a cyber attack. The Danish company said data was compromised, but that there are no signs …

Norway Faces Hard Choices After Wind Turbines Ruled Threat to Reindeer Herder Rights

OSLO – Norway faces hard choices over the future of two major wind farms stripped of their licenses for jeopardizing the way of life of Sami reindeer herders, but it remains unclear whether they should be dismantled, the energy minister …

In Texas’s Black-Swan Blackout, Everything Went Wrong at Once

The finger-pointing began immediately: It was the frozen wind turbines that foolishly replaced traditional sources. No, fossil fuels were at fault. No, Texas’s deregulated power market, unique in the country, had allowed companies to skimp on maintenance and upgrades. As …

Huge Vestas Wind Turbine Collapses in Northern Sweden in Rare Accident

A 230-meter tall wind turbine built by Vestas Wind Systems A/S collapsed at a site in northern Sweden over the weekend. The cause of the accident is unknown and the company is assembling a team that will investigate at the …

AXA Joins Growing List of Companies Committed to Using Renewable Energy

AXA SA and Burberry Group Plc are joining an array of companies committing to going green. Burberry expects to source all of its electricity from clean energy by 2022, while Copenhagen-based international brewing company Carlsberg A/S plans to switch to …

World’s Renewable Energy Projects Fall Short of Paris Climate Goals: IEA

Barely one tenth of renewable energy technology is ready to meet long-term climate change targets as governments have failed to adequately support large-scale deployment, a report by the International Energy Agency showed on Tuesday. Under a global climate pact, called …

Source of Clean Energy? Wind Turbines Are Spilling Oil in Mexico

Wind turbines were planted along a strip of Mexico’s southern coast to make the country’s power industry cleaner. Now they’re spilling oil. In the town of Juchitan last month, a clean-up was under way around a generator owned by Electricite …