17 December 2018
A tailwind for renewables
Non-fossil fuel energy projects saw further momentum in 2018, thanks to falling costs and increased comfort with the technologies
Renewable energies continued their upward growth trajectory in 2018, with falling costs and technological breakthroughs encouraging the uptake of non-fossil fuel energy sources. Increased commercial activity was a pointer to the increasing interest in renewable energies' possibilities. In October, Danish energy firm Orsted—formerly DONG—bought US-based Deepwater Wind, a sign that the once-lagging US wind sector was finally started to make some headway. And the resource potential in the US is significant and largely untapped: its onshore wind resources are some of the best in the world, with Iowa, Kansas and Oklahoma alone are rich in high, sustained wind flows. In those central states, wind
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