The UK has overtaken Denmark to become the world's number one for wind farms built offshore, with 597MW fully constructed. The achievement has been made possible after building work finished at Centrica's Lynn and Inner Dowsing wind farms near Skegness.

Anatole Kaletsky explains the difference between traditional finance and the brave new world of the last decade or so. Suppose a manufacturer such as GKN wants to buy a £1 million machine tool. In the old world of traditional bank finance, GKN would have borrowed £1 million from HSBC and that would be the end of the matter. But since the 1990s, the brave new world of securitised hyper-finance h...

German utility E.ON says world's largest offshore wind farm marks significant changes in scale

One of the biggest new offshore wind farms in the UK is to go ahead, after three German companies formed a joint venture to finance the €2bn project

The world's biggest offshore wind farm opens off the coast of Kent, boosting the UK's offshore generation capacity by about a third

I don't know about my fellow Samizdatistas, but I am having a hard time responding to the latest events in Egypt with anything other than a resigned shrug. My understanding is that this is not one of those enjoyable melodramas where there are Good Guys and Bad Guys, when we here in the comfortable seats (the ones outside Egypt) can all cheer the Good Guys and jeer the Bad Guys. My understandi...

The Labour Government has announced plans for the biggest expansion of wind energy ever seen. Britain is already the world leader in offshore wind energy. And today, the Crown Estate, owner of the UK’s coastal seabeds, has granted rights to energy companies to bring about the biggest expansion of wind energy ever seen in the world. This opens up the potential for up to 6,400 offshore wind fa...

With an offshore wind plan due from the European Commission in the autumn, environmental campaigners at Greenpeace have presented a study showing that the construction of 10,000 offshore wind turbines in the North Sea could be feasible if supported by a mega electricity grid.

Here's an interesting post on The National Interest blog.  Benjamin Friedman is a Cato guy, so the CONCEPT of offshore balancing is obviously of interest to him.  Many libertarians see offshore balancing as THE answer to our nation's foreign policy challenges, though a precise and agreed upon definition of the term is problematic.  Some offshore balancers wish to remain en...

Britain is now the world leader for offshore wind power after the completion of two wind farms off Skegness.