Offshore wind farms like Beatrice are making up some of the difference. Investments in these facilities last year was £6.7 billion, roughly double those for oil and gas.

The world’s deepest non-floating wind farm, located off the coast of Scotland, finally switched on this week, providing enough power for 450,000 homes. The Beatrice offshore wind farm, activated ...

The first electricity from a £2.6bn wind farm in the Moray Firth has exported power to the National Grid. One of the first of 84 turbines to be installed for the scheme, by a specialist "ship-on ...

Energy giant SSE is to go ahead with the construction of the £2.6bn Beatrice Offshore Windfarm Ltd (Bowl) project. It will see 84 turbines installed in the Outer Moray Firth, which will generate ...

The Beatrice offshore wind farm achieved 587.9MW of electricity - enough to power 450,000 homes. The scheme, which involves 84 turbines off the Caithness coast, reached the milestone earlier this ...

Germany's REpower Systems has signed a supply contract for the Beatrice wind farm demonstrator project with Talisman Energy (UK) Limited and Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) for the design and ...

British utility SSE said on Friday it had agreed to sell a further 10 percent stake in the 588-megawatt Beatrice offshore wind farm to partner Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP).

Beatrice wind farm off the Caithness coast in Scotland has generated power for the first time, operator SSE said on Thursday. Following installation of the first 7-megawatt (MW) turbine, the wind ...

The superintendent of the Homestead National Monument of America criticized the location of a proposed wind farm in Gage and Jefferson counties, saying it threatened the horizons of the national ...

Scotland has a quarter of Europe's offshore wind resource and Beatrice represents one of the first steps in tapping it. This is quite simply the most exciting renewable energy development in the ...

Across the globe, governments and developers are pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into large offshore wind farms to meet climate change goals.

The Beatrice offshore wind farm achieved 587.9MW of electricity - enough to power 450,000 homes. The scheme, which involves 84 turbines off the Caithness coast, reached the milestone earlier this ...