Floating wind power plays the generation gameNew-look designs now emerging could supercharge the fast-growing sector into the energy mainstream, writes Darius Snieckus….

Some countries ‘plan to reinstate subsidies’: Vestas chairmanSome countries are planning to reinstate renewable energy subsidies to help them build capacity faster, said the chairman of wind turbine giant Vestas. Bert Nordberg told financial news agency Reuters that it “will be a long time before subsidies disappear” despite the huge strides renewables have made in becoming competitive with conventional sources….

Wind farmers look to next wave of turbinesOutside the town of Velm-Götzendorf on the Austria-Slovakia border, a year-long project to reboot a quarter-century-old wind farm came to an end in January. The site’s 10 turbines were razed to the ground and replaced with just four. But the power generation capacity remained essentially the same…