Bold plan to shift a third of energy baseload to renewables creates infrastructure work, but meets some resistance

The Nhow Amsterdam RAI hotel is part of the Zuidas, the shiny financial and business district easily spotted on the way to Schiphol airport or on the rail into the city.

Computer-controlled milling mainstreams plywood and timber products, for large and small practices.

The Hollandse Kust Zuid 1 and 2 farms are expected to one day supply 700 to 750 MW of capacity, drawing from an estimated 60 to 130 turbines, depending on the kind of monopile-foundation wind technology installed.

The windswept fields and gusty greens of Ireland’s County Mayo are perfect places for a kite or a glider, or, in the case of energy partners E.ON and Ampyx Power, a large flying wing tethered to a drum, which will drive an experimental, portable power-generating turbine.

Hundreds of low-intensity earthquakes near the surface of a northern coastal region of the Netherlands have prompted the government to consider scaling back gas extraction, likely by several billion cubic meters a year.