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. 

The Global Wind Energy Council’s (GWEC) chief executive Ben Backwell and Kevin Winter, a researcher at the University of Hohenheim, join the Wind Power podcast to discuss the rise of misinformation and disinformation around wind power, and how misleading claims are shaping public debate about the sector.

ABO Energy’s chief financial officer has left the company with immediate effect after creditors approved plans to restructure the German renewables developer.

RWE reported a drop in earnings last year due to weaker performance in some business segments – including in offshore wind – but at the upper end of its guidance despite a challenging environment.