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News Flash: European Investment Bank Puts €5B Towards Wind Energy
As COP28 begins in Dubai, there are big investments in wind energy around the world. The European Investment Bank is backing wind energy with €5B to promote European-based wind manufacturing and development. In the U.S., Leeward Renewable Energy is using $580M for a wind and solar project. RWE and Masdar join forces for the 3GW Dogger Bank SouthWind Farm which will power 3 million homes.
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The European Investment Bank has pledged 5 billion euros in guarantees to support Europe’s struggling wind energy sector. Costs are soaring for turbine manufacturers as they face stiff competition from China. Back in 2022, the EU had a negative trade balance of over 400 million euros with China. In the wind sector, Chinese wind turbine prices are roughly 20% lower than those in Europe and the United States.
The European Investment Bank funding should help companies secure more contracts and boost growth. It even extends support to international firms like GE, which have Europe based subsidiaries.
Leeward Renewable Energy has secured $580 million to fund two lean energy projects in the U. S. The funds come in the form of tax equity commitments.
That money will help build a 179 megawatt solar farm in Arizona. It will also repower an 80 megawatt Illinois wind farm by upgrading the turbines. Construction has begun on the Arizona project, while the Illinois wind farm upgrades are expected to go live in December.
A massive new offshore wind project is coming to the U.K. German company RWE and UAE firm Masdar will develop The three Gigawatt Dogger Bank, south Wind Farm off the British Coast. Dogger Bank South would generate enough clean electricity for 3 million homes with RWE holding 51% and Masdar 49% Construction could begin in 2025 for first operations by 2029. The partners call it their largest ever renewable energy collaboration boosting UK and global climate goals.
News Flash: European Investment Bank Puts €5B Towards Wind Energy
Most Americans who have the means to travel have rented a car in Paris and driven it all over France. I happen to be the first Avis renter to pick up a car at Heathrow and take it through the Chunnel on my way to Paris, on my way to Stuttgart in western Germany.
How much French do I know? Close to zero. I don’t even know the French word for “zero.’ Was I a menace to the French? Doubt it.
This strikes me as pure MAGA racism. It’s an appeal to punish people with brown skin, or preferably, take them and their little children into detention and ultimately deport them. The more pain, the better.
Will You Be Safer if Non-English-Speaking People Can’t Drive?
Today’s America admires the rich, and we have no problem if our leaders are sociopathic rapists.
The more damage they do to the common U.S. citizen, the more we love them.
All they really need to do in order to retain our adoration is to continue to punish people with brown skin and give tax breaks to billionaires.
Quality education, healthcare, protecting our environment, and affordability are all issues for woke communists and sissies.
https://www.2greenenergy.com/2026/08/12/is-trump-the-greatest-president-ever/
Let’s not rush to judgement here.
OK, he’s an alcoholic Fox New host who’s led the U.S. military into a huge quagmire that, day by day, continues to destroy the U.S. and world economy.
My gardener is just as well qualified to lead the largest military in human history.
But Hegseth is 100% loyal to Trump. Nothing else matters.
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