Ørsted has nominated Corio Generation CEO Samuel Leupold as one of three new board members ahead of its annual general meeting next month.

Windpower Monthly rounds up the latest wind power technology patents filed and published in the past week.

The head of industry body RenewableUK has advocated for the continued drilling of oil and gas in the UK North Sea, as well as a speedy deployment of new wind power capacity. 

A third GE Vernova turbine has suffered a blade breakage at a Swedish project powering technology giant Google in the latest setback for the company’s Cypress wind turbine platform.

The UK government is pushing its next renewable energy auction forward to July as it seeks to accelerate the country’s energy transition amid the US and Israel’s war on Iran. 

Two major US offshore wind projects have reached significant milestones despite President Donald Trump’s anti-offshore wind campaign.

The Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) has called for governments and industry to accelerate renewables deployment as the war in the Middle East causes global energy price shocks.

RWE is prepared to take legal action against the Trump administration if it is not reimbursed for investments in US offshore wind leases – if held projects can not go ahead – according to CEO Markus Krebber.

The European Commission’s newly proposed clean energy investment strategy does not do enough to fund wind power and other clean energy technologies to the levels needed to meet the bloc’s ambitious targets, according to industry groups.