The Trump administration is considering halting future offshore wind lease sales and may block new wind development on some federal lands in its latest action against the US wind power sector. 

Canada has officially designated its first offshore wind development zones off the eastern Atlantic province of Nova Scotia in a move described as "pivotal" for the country's energy transition. 

Enercon has installed its first “lower-emissions" steel tower at a wind farm in Germany.

Vattenfall has recruited Hollywood icon Samuel L Jackson to present seaweed snacks it produced at one of its Danish offshore wind farms. The Swedish utility claims this shows offshore wind can “contribute to sustainable food production and the regeneration of marine ecosystems”.

The anti-wind Trump administration has cancelled a $4.9 billion federal loan guarantee for Invenergy’s Grain Belt Express phase 1, a high-voltage transmission line due to carry 2.5GW of wind power from Kansas to Missouri. However, the developer has indicated it plans to continue the project with private financing.

The US wind market saw a 50% drop in turbine orders for the first half of 2025 compared to the same period last year, according to the US Wind Energy Monitor report released by Wood Mackenzie and the American Clean Power Association (ACP). 

Windpower Monthly rounds up the latest patents for wind power technology granted and applied for in the last week.

Campaigners in the north of England are arguing that a major new wind farm planned in the region will do more harm than good to climate and environmental outcomes by degrading the peatlands that act as a natural carbon sink.