MAKE Consulting published its Global Wind Turbine Trends 2017 report recently, including a revised estimate of turbine sizes in the future comparted to the 2016 report. MAKE believes average [...]
The Dutch chemicals giant AkzoNobel has joined forces with power-to-gas specialist Gasunie to use wind energy to convert water into green hydrogen through electrolysis. Plans are in place to [...]
At Vortex computer cluster we have just reached our Petabyte storage scale as part of our major system upgrade powered by ERA5 downscaling stream in order to serve the increasing demand of LES [...]
Aurora Energy Research have released a cross-industry study looking at how the current shape of the offshore wind industry in Great Britain combined with intelligent market design and regulation [...]
Members of the European Parliament voted yesterday for a 2030 renewable energy target of 35% – more ambitious than the Commission’s initial proposal of at least 27%. The news comes just a few [...]
In Vortex, we are leading experts in the wind modeling, and had an incredible 2017, we implemented the first stream of ECMWF Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis in our computing cluster and now we are [...]
Researchers from Spain’s Jaume I University in Castellón are working on new nanomaterials to improve wind turbines’ resilience to extreme weather and ensure energy efficiency does not [...]
“No challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change,” said President Barack Obama in his State of the Union address back in 2015, and this is certainly true in the wind [...]
Leading commercial provider of wind resource model data, Vortex, has played a key role in the development of the recently launched Global Wind Atlas 2.0 (GWA 2.0). The GWA is a web-based platform [...]
The European wind industry has made a great start to the new year, generating more power in a single day on 3 January than ever before. The figure was announced by the European wind industry [...]