RENEWABLE ENERGY
PROTECTING OUR FUTURE
Laura Hall details the coatings innovations that are helping to future-proof the wind sector
she presented me with the following: We use wind for energy and we use energy (by generating electricity from wind) to power our appliances, such as our ipads, iphones, laptops, Chromebooks, radios, speakers and I’m sure a lot more. Right now I am even using energy to type this. How is wind energy generated? We
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generate energy using wind turbines – the wind forces the blades round and round, which soon produces energy that is transferred into our homes. Did you know that wind turbines are a renewable energy source that has very little impact on the
cently, I asked my 10-year-old daughter what she knew about wind energy. 10 minutes later (and some Chromebook investigating)
An offshore crane flange protected with the Oxifree coating solution
environment compared to burning fossil fuels? So what does this tell us, apart from
the obvious about how wind energy comes about? It tells us that renewable energy
from wind is a prominent topic in today’s world, one that our children are becoming extremely familiar with and will be more so in their lifetime. Te offshore wind energy market is
forecast to reach US$42 billion by 2025, growing at a CAGR of 13.6% from 2020 to 2025. In 2021 we have already seen President Biden sign an executive order to double offshore wind generation in US federal waters by 2030. Over £900 million has been invested
in British offshore wind manufacturing plants in 2021, the highest on record since the industry arrived in the UK in 2000. Te UK offshore wind industry is committed to creating tens of thousands of jobs, with 26,000 already working in the sector and this set to increase to 69,000 in the next five years. Asia Pacific power generation
investments are leading the world and expected to hit US$2.4 trillion in the current decade, with renewables accounting for over half or US$1.3 trillion of power investments. Tese are all big numbers and with commitments that strong comes the need to protect the future of those assets. New projects are being commissioned on an almost weekly basis, major players
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