The number of energy companies committed to a green-power transition continues to grow; these pioneers remain at the leading edge. Denmark’s Ørsted, which built the world’s first offshore wind farm in 1991, now generates enough wind and solar energy to power about 29 million homes worldwide; its Hornsea 3, in the North Sea off Yorkshire, England, will be the world’s largest wind farm when it’s completed in 2027.
Envision Energy is a top maker of wind turbines and energy storage systems in China. One of its latest marquee projects: a massive energy facility in Inner Mongolia designed both to run on renewable energy and to manufacture green fuels. The plant in Chifeng City aims by the end of 2024 to produce 300,000 metric tons of ammonia—a fuel that can be burned without creating carbon emissions—using only green electricity to create it. In India (which, like China, is a coal-dependent nation), ReNew provides 6 million homes with wind and solar power; it hopes to double that by 2028. ReNew is also training hundreds of women for renewable-energy jobs—a meaningful effort in a country where only 11% of that industry’s workforce is female, about half the global average.