Governments urged to invest heavily in renewable energy to aid economic recovery

With over 7000 live jobs companies are still hiring.

Wood, the global engineering and consulting company, has secured a number of engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) onshore wind contracts in the United States worth a combined $100m.

The renewable-energy business is expected to keep growing, though more slowly, in contrast to fossil fuel companies, which have been hammered by low oil and gas prices.

As gusts of up to 97mph pounded the UK at the weekend there was cause for celebration. At 2am on Saturday 8th of February, storm Ciara led to wind turbines generating 56% of the country's electicity. The storm brough torrential rain and flooding causing some electrical outages.

GE Renewable Energy will locally produce the wind turbine blades in LM Wind Power’s Bergama site, Izmir, Turkey
Istanbul, September 30, 2019 – GE Renewable Energy announces today that it has been selected by Sanko Enerji to supply GE’s 4.8 MW Cypress Units for the 51 MW Gazi 9 Wind Farm in Turkey and will be providing a 10-years Full-Service Agreement.

Belgium engineering firm Tractebel, part of Engie, is developing a concept for an offshore platform that would convert power produced from offshore wind farms into hydrogen using electrolysis.

Labour is pledging to invest billions of pounds in electric car production and offshore wind farms to accelerate the "green industrial revolution".

Virginia's Governor, Ralph Northam, has signed Executive Order Forty-Three, which establishes statewide goals and targets for clean energy deployment. The Executive Order lays out Virginia’s objectives for statewide energy production, which includes the goal that by 2030, 30 percent of Virginia’s electric system will be powered by renewable energy resources and by 2050, 100 percent of Virginia’s electricity will be produced from carbon-free sources such as wind, solar and nuclear.

Norway government’s climate change tackling fund Enova has awarded Equinor up to NOK 2.3 billion ($256,59 million) grant to support the development of a floating offshore wind farm that would electrify offshore oil platforms in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea.