Owners and operators of offshore wind farms will have to “rethink their installation and service vessels entirely” as turbines get bigger and are placed in ever-deeper waters.

Vestas has won an order to install a 42 mw wind turbine at Obrovac in Croatia.

An Estonian renewable energy developer has opened the biggest wind farm in neighbouring Lithuania, the $76.5m Ciuteliai plant.

Michael Fallon, the UK’s energy minister launched the Offshore Wind Investment Organisation in Manchester on Wednesday in a bid to boost the level of investment for the offshore wind power industry.

The UK is at risk of allowing innovations in offshore wind development to grind to a standstill because of a lack of suitable demonstration sites.

GDF SUEZ has taken a 43 per cent stake in a 94 MW wind farm in South Africa.

A report by Renewable UK claims that the UK will need to build around 32 factories if the country is to meet its targets for offshore wind farm development.

Tennet are confident that a new financing package for the first cluster of German offshore wind projects is “secure”.

Two leading European renewable energy companies continue their success in the Brazilian wind market, with the installation of more than 400 MW.

Mongolia’s first wind power plant is set to go into operation next month.

Persistent power cuts in the northwest of France has prompted EDF to discuss a subsea cable link to connect to the south coast of wind power-plenty Ireland.

Alstom has met the local content rules set out by the Brazilian development bank BNDES, becoming the third company to achieve compliance with the regulations.

Political infighting is putting the UK at risk of blowing its chance to become “the market of choice for investment in renewables in Europe” according to analysts at Ernst & Young.

The US is the destination of choice for renewable energy investment according to a new report, which puts China, Germany, Australia and the UK as the rest of the top five countries.

Global web giant Google has made a move into the wind power generation business having acquired California-based Makani Power.

Electricity is increasingly coming to dominate the supply of energy, and the reasons may be obvious.

The European Parliament is to vote for a second time in early July on reforms to the EU's emissions trading scheme.

Europe could save €45bn ($58bn) by 2030 if renewable energy installations were built on sites that offer the highest power potential, according to a new study by Siemens.

The first of 160 turbines at the Gwynt y Môr wind farm in the UK has been successfully installed.