14 May 2015
Amarenco, the solar energy business led by former Bord Gáis head John Mullins, has found a multi-million euro backer to help it deliver the country’s first solar farms with the inaugural project earmarked for Cork. One of the world’s largest investment banks with headquarters in Sydney, Macquarie Bank is willing to invest €180m in the […]
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13 May 2015
Spanish company Abengoa has signed a €614m deal to sell 450MW of concentrating solar power (CSP) assets to its renewable yieldco vehicle company Abengoa Yield. Board of directors of both the firms have approved the acquisition which represents the third asset package deal between Abengoa and Abengoa Yield. However, closing of the deal is subject […]
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13 May 2015
The European Union’s agency Fusion For Energy (F4E) has selected Amec Foster Wheeler to provide neutral beam cell remote handling system for the international thermonuclear experimental reactor (ITER) fusion reactor in Cadarache, France. The scope of work under the €70m contract includes design, manufacture, delivery, on-site integration, commissioning and final acceptance tests of the remote […]
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12 May 2015
RWE Innogy has officially started operations at the 295MW Nordsee Ost wind farm in North Sea Germany. The offshore power plant is located nearly 35km north to Heligoland. It covers an area of 24km2 and has been built at water depths of up to 25m. The wind farm is equipped with 48 wind turbines that […]
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08 May 2015
Australian Wind Prospect Group has created a new asset management platform, Wind Prospect Operations (WPO) with a portfolio of more than 1GW of independent, utility-scale renewable energy projects in Europe. The portfolio, comprising operating wind and solar energy assets, generates more than €400m as annual production revenues for clients. WPO integrates the energy firm’s businesses […]
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07 May 2015
Germany will install more than 2,000 MW of offshore wind capacity in 2015, taking the UK’s crown as the global installation leader. The figures come from Globaldata, an international research and consulting firm. The 2,000 MW mark is an almost fourfold increase over 2014 for Germany, while the UK will remain relatively stagnant, projecting to […]
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07 May 2015
UK’s engineering firm Amec Foster Wheeler has completed construction of 250MW Copper Mountain Solar 3 project in Boulder City, Nevada, US. The solar project is spread across nearly 1,400 acres of land and can generate enough renewable electricity to power 80,000 US households. Cupertino Electric and Amec Foster Wheeler were the co-developers of the project, […]
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07 May 2015
Russia’s state-run nuclear corporation Rosatom will set-up two reactors in Hungary at the Paks nuclear power plant (NPP). The Hungarian Government has confirmed the contract, which will involve units 5 and 6 being constructed at the NPP. The units will house Rosatom’s VVER-1200 reactors, and are expected to each have a generation capacity of 1,200MW. […]
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07 May 2015
Vattenfall has started construction of the Kentish Flats Extension, which is the only offshore wind farm being built in UK this year. Located off the Kent coast, the extension project is expected to cost more than £150m. It will involve installation of 15 wind turbines at 8km distance from the coast. The project is an […]
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07 May 2015
EDF Energy will tomorrow take one of the two nuclear reactors at Dungeness B power station in Kent out of service for a £30 million maintenance programme. More than 11,000 separate pieces of work will be carried out during the statutory three-yearly maintenance shutdown, including inspections inside the advanced gas-cooled reactor as well as the […]
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