Equinor and Gwynt Glas have won seabed leases to build floating wind farms in the Celtic Sea off the coast of Wales and South ...

Britain’s next renewable energy auction must secure a record amount of new offshore wind capacity if the country is to meet its 2030 clean power targets, Darren Davidson, vice president of turbine ...

Britain’s wind farms were paid to switch off for 13 per cent of the time they should have been generating last year, a record level of disconnections that highlights the strains on the UK’s ...

Britain and France brace for hurricane-force winds from Storm Ciarán The explosively intensifying storm or ‘bomb cyclone’ is predicted to be historically intense. Gusts could top 100 mph in ...

By early Friday, the storm had already brought record winds to the Irish coast. At 5 a.m., a gust of 114 miles per hour was recorded at Mace Head, County Galway, beating a previous national record ...

Offshore wind employs around 20,000 people in Britain, many of them in maintenance. By 2030, more than 61,000 workers could be employed in the sector, according to the Offshore Wind Industry Council.

Britain’s gale-force winds will be vital to meet its 2050 net zero target. This makes its failure last week to attract any bids from offshore wind developers in its annual renewable energy ...

Millions of tonnes of toxic gas were carried by the prevailing winds across Scandinavia and eventually to Britain. ... "Ash clouds, gas clouds, sulphuric acid clouds from Iceland could sweep across ...

FARGO — Our year-long prevailing wind is northwesterly but in the summer our dominant wind is southerly. A prevailing wind is a wind direction that is predominant in a climate. For our region ...

In Britain the prevailing wind is from the South West, which brings warm, moist air from the Atlantic Ocean, particularly the North Atlantic Drift. This contributes to the frequent rainfall.

Powered by the wind since 1887: The past, present and future of Britain's wind turbines. Wind turbines are becoming a familiar feature of the landscape. John Goodall looks at their operation, ... The ...

LONDON — Britain’s Conservative government relaxed planning rules Tuesday and lifted restrictions that effectively banned the building of new onshore wind farms in England. Rules introduced in ...