Kari Larsen

Reaching the EU’s 2020 renewable energy targets

As part of the EU Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW) in March, two of the panel debates discussed how to reach the EU’s 2020 renewable energy targets and how the Strategic Energy Technology (SET) plan...

Offshore wind – do we have what it takes?

According to analyst Emerging Energy Research (EER), the global installed offshore wind base is expected to grow to nearly 45 GW in 2020. But how far are we away from the technology and supply chain...

Hywind floating offshore wind turbine foundation

“We didn’t understand why it shouldn’t be possible to mount a wind turbine on a floating construction,” Sjur Bratland, Asset Manager for Hywind at Statoil.