A wildly innovative turbine that could halve the cost of offshore wind is set to go into testing in Norway. The 19-m (62-ft), 30-kW, contra-rotating vertical-axis turbine is a prototype of a design that could scale to unprecedented size and power.
World Wide Wind has appointed Bjørn Simonsen as its new CEO. Bjørn Simonsen comes from the position of CEO of Saga Pure ASA, a listed investment company on the Oslo Stock Exchange, which during his tenure from 2020 to early 2023 was fully dedicated
Norwegian aluminium and energy company Hydro and its compatriot World Wide Wind have signed a Letter of Intent (LoL) to explore the use of aluminium in the offshore wind industry.