wind energy

Airloom Promises To Slash Wind Power Costs, Attracts Investment From Bill Gates

Bill Gates has backed Airloom Energy, a Wyoming-based wind energy startup, which claims to have created a technology which claims to slash wind turbine costs by nearly 70%. Founded by Robert Lumley, Airloom is led by Neal Rickner, who has also spent time (nearly a decade) at Google and Google[x] leading teams, most notably serving […]

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2023 Proved Brightest For Wind Power Generation In India: Govt

Union Minister R.K Singh in a written reply before the parliament shared data on the contribution of wind energy in the total energy mix in the last three years. The data revealed an incremental growth in the wind generation capacity to the overall renewable energy. The data said that 2023 proved fruitful for the wind […]

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MNRE Issues Policy To Repower Wind Turbines Below 2MW Capacity

The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has issued its Wind Repowering and Life Extension Policy for wind projects. The ministry said that the initiative will likely boost the potential of wind energy generation from old and inefficient wind power projects by modifying the wind turbine structures (repowering). As per the National Institute of […]

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Wind Energy Takes Centre Stage at COP28

COP28, being held in Dubai, has served as an ideal platform seeing major wind firms and countries join hands on noteworthy agreements on the setting up of wind farms. These agreements run into several gigawatts.  1 GW TotalEnergies AoI On the COP28 platform, French firm, TotalEnergies has entered into an agreement on investment (AoI) with […]

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Dalmia Cement Plans To Use Wind Power For Its Tamil Nadu Plants

Indian cement manufacturer Dalmia Cement (Bharat) Limited has now planned to rope in wind power to cater to its power needs. In order to boost the use of renewable energy for its power needs, it has also issued a bid seeking developers.  The company, a subsidiary of Dalmia Bharat Limited, plans to use this renewable […]

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Is Solar Trumping Wind, Again?

Between 2017 and 2021, you wouldn’t be blamed if you thought the whole burden of adding renewable energy capacity had fallen on solar energy. Thus, even as wind turbine capacities were going up, actual wind capacity deployment, particularly onshore wind, was slumping, leaving in its wake a slew of firms struggling to survive. Dominated by […]

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