EGEB: Worlds largest offshore floating wind farm is now complete – Electrek

In todays Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):

The installation of the 50 megawatt (MW) Kincardine Offshore Wind farm, the worlds largest floating offshore wind farm 9 miles (15 km) off the coast of Aberdeen, Scotland, is now complete.

The wind farm consists of a 2 MW Vestas turbine and five 9.5 MW Vestas turbines.

Its expected to generate up to 218 GWh of clean electricity each year, enough to power 55,000 households.

The Madrid-headquartered Cobra Wind was responsible for the commissioning, engineering, design, supply, and construction of the wind farm. The Navantia-Windar consortium in Spain manufactured the floating wind foundations. They were then transported to Rotterdam in the Netherlands, where the wind turbines were mounted on the foundations.

Read more:Biden administration opens up the US Pacific coast to offshore wind

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) describes itself as:

[A]n organization of 190 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world.

Yet the IMF has undermined global climate action by promoting fossil-fuel expansion through its policy advice, locking developing countries into a reliance on coal and gas that is harming their economies and the planet, according to new research by ActionAid USA and the UK-based NGO Bretton Woods Project.

The report,IMF Surveillance and Climate Change Transition Risks,is based on analysis of all 595 Article IV reports conducted in the IMFs 190 member countries between the signing of the Paris Agreement in December 2015 and March 2021. Article IV reports contain policy advice to countries that shapes their economies for years to come. The report found:

Niranjali Amerasinghe, ActionAid USA executive director and climate finance expert, says:

The International Monetary Fund should ensure its policy advice makes it easier, not harder, for countries to transition to renewable energy.

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