offshore Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 18 Sep 2018 16:26:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Walney Extension: World’s largest offshore wind farm opens in UK waters https://www.greenoptimistic.com/walney-extension-offshore-wind-farm-opens-20180918/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/walney-extension-offshore-wind-farm-opens-20180918/#respond Tue, 18 Sep 2018 16:26:49 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=67132 On Thursday, the world’s largest offshore windfarm will open off the coast of northwest England. The wind farm, named Walney Extension, has a capacity of 659 megawatts (MW), enough to power almost 600,000 homes. The previously largest offshore windfarm was the London Array on England’s east coast which has a capacity of 630 MW. Walney […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/walney-extension-offshore-wind-farm-opens-20180918/feed/ 0 67132 Vattenfall and Munich Invest in a Second Billion Dollar Off-Shore Wind Farm https://www.greenoptimistic.com/vattenfall-munich-invest-second-billion-dollar-shore-wind-farm-20140812/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/vattenfall-munich-invest-second-billion-dollar-shore-wind-farm-20140812/#respond Tue, 12 Aug 2014 08:04:26 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=48833 Vattenfall, one of the leading energy companies in Europe, together with Munich City Utilities, revealed their plans to construct a $1.6 billion wind farm. The Swedish giant will place 72 turbines off the German coast of the North Sea in close proximity to Danish waters. Construction is planned to begin in 2015. If everything goes to […]

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