Business | EXPLAINER Jun 27, 2023
Why the wind power industry has hit turbulence
While industry has grown quickly over the past two decades, it still faces various hurdles that must be overcome.
While industry has grown quickly over the past two decades, it still faces various hurdles that must be overcome.
The digitalized, interconnected technology of the thousands of renewable assets across Europe presented major vulnerabilities to infiltration.
Europe's energy crisis, sparked by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, has escalated from a problem of ensuring supply to a challenge of securing the networks that keep Europe warm.
Buyers in Europe and beyond are now vying to pay top dollar for coal, often from remote places that until now hardly even shipped the fuel.
Russia's cut in supplies through its main gas pipeline to Germany will leave Europe's biggest economy faced with rationing industry to keep its citizens warm during the winter months.
Russia supplies about 40% of Europe's natural gas, mostly by pipeline.
Although the threat of shortages comes after the peak demand of winter, Europe still has much to lose when its businesses and households are already reeling from record energy prices.
The move is in retaliation against Western sanctions imposed on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.
The Atlantic Ocean's current system, an engine of the Northern Hemisphere's climate, could be weakening to such an extent that it could soon bring big changes to the world's weather, a scientific study said on Thursday. The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is a large ...
The EU is veering off track for its emissions-cutting goals as hurdles slow wind power development.