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

German wind farm developers have warned that leaked proposals to scrap grid operators’ obligations to prioritise renewables would make project financing “impossible”.

A US bomber plane from the second world war was found at the bottom of the German North Sea during an ordnance survey for an offshore wind converter station. 

Two subcontractors have died after a workplace accident at an under-construction wind farm in Hesse in central Germany.

Tinne Van der Straeten, the new chief executive of WindEurope, talks to the Wind Power podcast about her priorities as she takes up her post at the trade body. 

The EU’s target of installing 425GW of wind power capacity by the end of the decade is slipping further out of reach despite installations rebounding last year, according to WindEurope’s latest annual report. 

A huge UK offshore wind farm due to power technology giants Google and Amazon has defaulted on lending agreements and has been hit by a substation outage preventing it from delivering half of its output to the grid, its developer has revealed.

Spanish energy giant Iberdrola’s profits continued to grow last year amid an ongoing pivot towards grids and networks expansion, despite a drop in earnings from its power business. 

Chinese turbine manufacturers received a record volume of international orders in 2025 as they proved successful with 10MW-plus onshore models, according to newly published data.