Published

2 years ago

March 3, 2025

Alice Rush

Weather Guard Lightning Tech

Nordex Optimistic in US, National Grid Sells US Renewable Portfolio

This week on News Flash, Nordex’s determined stance on US growth, the Cenos Floating Wind Farm project, National Grid’s sale of its US renewable assets, and Europe’s wind energy production expansion to meet 2030 climate targets.

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Allen Hall: Starting off the week, German wind leader Nordex remains bullish on US growth despite President’s Trump Day one, suspension of offshore wind leasing. CEO, Jose Hlu Blanco confidently told Reuters they’ll hit targets, quote, even in worse case scenarios. North American business surged 3% to 10% of orders in 2024 while Nordex exceeded profit forecast with 296 million euros. The company now aims to recapture its former 15 to 18% of the US market position and projects five to 7% profit margins for 2025. Energy developers, flotation Energy and Vagrønn have filed for approval of their groundbreaking Cenos floating Wind Farm with Scottish authorities.

The 95 turbine project will tower 320 meters above the North Sea, 190 kilometers from Scotland’s coast. The innovative offshore wind development secured through Crown Estate Scotland’s in into program will power both UK homes and North Sea oil platforms.

Public consultation remains open until April 4th, building on momentum from their successful Green Volt project. In a major market move, national Grid is offloading its entire US renewable portfolio to Canadian giant Brookfield for $1.74 billion. The strategic divestment includes 1.8 gigawatts of operational assets and 1.3 gigawatts under development across solar, wind, and battery technologies.

This sale follows similar renewable pullbacks by energy majors Shell, BP and Equinor Amid Profitability Challenges. National Grid will now concentrate investment on its core energy network infrastructure with the transaction expected to complete by early 2026. And finally, European wind energy suppliers are rapidly expanding production capacity with over 30 factories across the continent being expanded or newly built to meet ambitious EU 2030 climate targets. SEF is investing 300 million euros in Rotterdam to produce 200 triple XL offshore wind foundations.

Annually by mid 2025 while Siemens Gamesa announced a 200 million Euro investment to upgrade its facility in France to produce next generation 14 megawatt turbine blades, creating 200 new jobs. The manufacturing expansion spans cable production in nine European countries and turbine component factories in Denmark, France, Poland, Italy, and the uk.

These investments totaling 11 billion euros over two years, strengthens Europe’s energy security and creates thousands of jobs.

https://weatherguardwind.com/nordex-optimistic-national-grid/

Renewable Energy

There Were Prior Threats to the Nation Stemming from the White House

Published

2 days ago

September 24, 2026

Alice Rush

For most of our lives, many of us boomers have believed that the biggest threat to the United States was our president, starting with Tricky Dick Nixon, the inventor of the “trickle-down economics,” liar Ronald Reagan, and GW (the moron) Bush.

But yes, none of us was prepared for the cold, calculating criminal who is Donald Trump.

There Were Prior Threats to the Nation Stemming from the White House

Renewable Energy

Yes, Human Activity, in its Current State, Is Unsustainable

Published

2 days ago

September 24, 2026

Alice Rush

The fact that human activity is unsustainable has been revealed to us gradually over the last century. Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” was published 63 years ago.

That said, the ideas of climate change, ocean acidification, and loss of biodiversity have been essentially unchallenged by scientists for just the last couple of decades.

The only thing standing in the way of rapid environmental progress is greed, and in the end, that may prove to be an unbeatable foe. Decarbonizing our grid and transportation sector will eventually destroy the fossil fuel industry, a group so powerful that it has a stranglehold, both on our lawmakers and on our corporate-owned media, that works so hard to misinform our citizenry.

Yes, Human Activity, in its Current State, Is Unsustainable

Renewable Energy

Will the U.S. Top Military Intervene Before Trump Inflicts Irreparable Damage

Published

2 days ago

September 24, 2026

Alice Rush

It’s still possible that our most senior military leaders will insert themselves in time to prevent some truly catastrophic event here in the United States/abroad.