Swedish automotive battery maker Northvolt, which declared bankruptcy in March, plans to wind down its remaining battery cell production in the Nordic country by the end of June, its trustee said on Thursday.

The scale has been in use for decades and gives an idea about what kind of wind damage a hurricane can produce, but it says nothing about impacts from storm surge, flooding rain and tornadoes.

At 2:52 a.m. on Thursday, the NWS Los Angeles/Oxnard CA issued a wind advisory valid from 3 p.m. until Friday 3 a.m. for Santa Barbara County Southwestern Coast and Santa Ynez Mountains Western Range.

Vietnam's state power utility has cut previously agreed subsidised prices it pays for electricity from some solar and wind farms which now risk defaulting on their debts with banks, according to an investors' petition seen by Reuters.

Texas lawmakers have advanced a bill to prohibit offshore wind turbines in the Gulf of Mexico from connecting to the state's primary power grid through state waters. Senate Bill 383 passed narrowly out of the relevant Texas House committee in a Tuesday meeting that wasn't broadcast to the public or recorded.

Several communities throughout Racine County will send public works crews to Wind Point Thursday to help with storm cleanup efforts.

The Storm Prediction Center has Broward County and the Miami-Dade metro area at a marginal risk for isolated strong storms on Thursday and Friday afternoons.

Denmark, a global leader in wind power, spent five months licking its wounds after a failed auction for offshore turbines delivered a blow to expand even further.