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Wind power

  • Wednesday, 9 July, 2025
    UK energy
    Ministers poised to drop plans for ‘zonal pricing’ in British electricity market

    Industry had warned that splitting wholesale system could deter investment in new wind farms

    Wind turbines in Biggleswade, Bedfordshire
  • Tuesday, 8 July, 2025
    Onshore wind projects still scarce in England despite planning reforms

    One year on from Labour lifting a de facto ban, few large applications have been made

    Wind turbines at Biggleswade wind farm in Biggleswade, UK
  • Wednesday, 18 June, 2025
    King’s floating wind farm project fails to attract enough providers

    Auction of space off Cornish coast secures deals to develop 3GW of power, but falls short of target

    RWE’s Gwynt y Môr, the world’s second largest offshore wind farm located eight miles offshore in Liverpool Bay
  • Wednesday, 18 June, 2025
    US warns Britain over Chinese wind farm security risks

    Mingyang’s plan to build Scottish turbine factory has raised fears about surveillance

    Mingyang workers making turbines in China
  • Sunday, 8 June, 2025
    Equinor ASA
    How a gas deal helped save Equinor’s $5bn New York wind farm

    Norway’s state energy major reveals the art of negotiating with the Trump administration

    Equinor chief executive Anders Opedal
  • Tuesday, 20 May, 2025
    ​Equinor to resume $5bn Empire Wind project after Trump administration reversal

    US interior secretary had ordered a halt to activities last month on development off the coast of New York

    An aerial view of the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal shows the site under development, with various construction equipment and materials spread across the area
  • Tuesday, 13 May, 2025
    FT SeriesPowering Britain
    Powering Britain: radical plan to shake up electricity market faces crunch time

    After months of bitter debate, Ed Miliband is under pressure to decide on ‘zonal pricing’ policy

    Montage shows woman holding electricity meter against a backdrop of glowing wind turbines
  • Wednesday, 7 May, 2025
    Ørsted AS
    Ørsted halts work on vast UK wind farm citing rising costs

    Decision on Hornsea 4 project deals blow to Britain’s clean energy goals

    An Ørsted wind turbine in the North Sea
  • Wednesday, 30 April, 2025
    Equinor ASA
    Equinor weighs suing Trump administration over ‘unlawful’ halt to wind project

    Norwegian energy group slams ‘unprecedented’ decision to impose stop order on $4.5bn development off New York coast

    Anders Opedal speaking
  • Sunday, 27 April, 2025
    Vestas Wind Systems AS
    Vestas warns wind industry is falling behind global climate goals

    Europe’s largest turbine maker notes ‘big discrepancy’ between ambitious targets and reality on the ground

    Employees at Vestas Wind Systems conduct final inspections on a large, curved mould for a wind turbine blade at a factory in Denmark
  • Wednesday, 16 April, 2025
    Equinor ASA
    Trump administration halts Equinor’s $5bn New York energy project

    Move to pause offshore wind plan is latest in White House’s campaign to dismantle Joe Biden’s cleantech strategy

    Equinor flag
  • Tuesday, 11 March, 2025
    Special ReportBusiness School Sustainable Education
    Business school teaching case study: how can Ørsted overcome its US challenges?

    The world’s largest offshore wind developer seeks to boost its share price as Trump policies cloud the future of clean energy

  • Sunday, 2 March, 2025
    Trump’s directives deal fatal blow to America’s offshore wind industry

    Economic case looked bleak even before the president’s re-election sent a chill through sector

    An offshore wind turbine
  • Thursday, 27 February, 2025
    News in-depthRenewable energy
    Green energy gets switched off as power systems fail to keep up

    Wind and solar generators stop production at rising rates as grids and battery storage lags

    Seagulls take flight from the beach backdropped by offshore wind turbines at the Scroby Sands Wind Farm near Great Yarmouth, UK,
  • Thursday, 13 February, 2025
    John Gapper
    Drax’s power is not really green — but Britain needs it

    The UK government’s deal to retain the biomass electricity generating station is a painful but necessary compromise

    Rows of houses with solar panels on their roofs stand in front of the Drax power plant in Selby, with its cooling towers emitting steam into the sky
  • Friday, 31 January, 2025
    Ørsted AS
    World’s biggest offshore wind developer Ørsted replaces chief

    Mads Nipper to leave Danish company as deputy Rasmus Errboe steps up

    Mads Nipper
  • Monday, 27 January, 2025
    UK energy
    UK on course to miss 2030 clean power targets, says report

    Research by Cornwall Insight is blow to government, which has made decarbonising electricity system a key goal

    Wind turbines alongside a solar farm in Wales
  • Tuesday, 21 January, 2025
    Ørsted AS
    Shares in world’s biggest offshore wind developer tumble as US woes deepen

    Ørsted blames interest rates, supply chains and ‘market uncertainties’ for latest writedown of US business

    Ørsted’s Block Island Wind Farm, off the coast of Rhode Island, was America’s first offshore wind farm
  • Friday, 3 January, 2025
    Donald Trump
    Trump attacks UK’s North Sea policy as ‘very big mistake’

    Post on Truth Social platform is latest anti-Labour salvo from incoming US administration

    Donald Trump speaking at a campaign town hall in Philadelphia in October 14 2024, in front of a screen with the slogan ‘Drill baby drill’
  • Thursday, 12 December, 2024
    UK energy
    UK ministers consider biggest ever renewable subsidy auction

    Discussions come as government seeks to meet 2030 clean power target

    Wind turbines and electricity pylons on a wind farm at Little Cheyne Court in Romney, in the south of England
  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    Special ReportFTfm: Responsible Investing
    Global green subsidy race draws investor attention

    Europe, the US and China are vying to be the most attractive destination for investment in sustainability

    Chinese carmaker Nio’s 500,000th electric vehicle rolls off the production line. China’s EV sector has been heavily subsidised by the government
  • Tuesday, 26 November, 2024
    Scots stand firm on Chinese wind turbine factory despite ‘hostile state’ fears

    Kate Forbes says there is ‘room’ for Mingyang’s plant, as SNP government pushes for green growth

    Kate Forbes at a wind farm in East Lothian
  • Tuesday, 12 November, 2024
    Renewable energy
    GE Vernova boss keeps search for offshore wind turbine orders on ice

    Chief of world’s third-largest manufacturer hopes economic environment will improve after difficult period

    an offshore wind turbine at the Scroby Sands Wind Farm
  • Wednesday, 6 November, 2024
    Lex
    Hurricane Trump will blow Europe’s wind power recovery off course Premium content

    Lack of clarity about US president-elect’s plans means confusion over the outlook for new projects and turbine orders

    A wind turbine near Block Island, Rhode Island
  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    The world’s renewable energy potential is gridlocked

    Transmission lines and energy storage solutions need to be deployed much faster

    Solar panels at the power plant in La Colle des Mees, Alpes de Haute Provence, southeastern France.
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