01 May 2015
Ireland’s Electricity Supply Board (ESB) has formed a development partnership with Coriolis Energy to set up nine wind power projects in the UK. Projected power generation capacity of the developments will be up to 400MW. The firms are likely to spend approximately £600m on the proposed projects. First of the nine onshore wind energy facilities […]
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29 April 2015
Apple is looking to invest more than €400m directly to fund at least six renewable energy projects in Ireland. The firm has invited partnership proposals from green energy developers to set up multiple new projects, with each having a power generation capacity of up to 50MW, reports The Irish Times. Apple has planned the projects […]
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29 April 2015
A new report released today (29 April) has revealed that the UK’s onshore wind industry contributed £906m to the UK economy last year, of which almost 30% directly benefits local areas. The report, undertaken by BiGGAR Economics for RenewableUK, shows the industry’s contribution to the UK economy is increasing, having risen by 65% (£358mn) since […]
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29 April 2015
German manufacturer Siemens has completed the installation of SylWin1 grid connection in the North Sea and handed it over to network operator TenneT. The now-operational link is located at nearly 70km from the west of Sylt island in Germany. It will allow transmission of up to 864MW of renewable energy. The link connects three offshore […]
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24 April 2015
State-owned landowner in the UK, The Crown Estate, has signed a land lease agreement with hydro project developer Snowdonia Pumped Hydro (SPH) for construction of Glyn Rhonwy facility near Llanberis. The lease has allotted 13ha land for the £160m power project development, which is expected to be commissioned by 2019. The facility will be built […]
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24 April 2015
German power manufacturer Siemens has received an order to deliver gas turbines and generators for two combined cycle power facilities in Mexico, totalling 550MW. The power equipment order for the Tula 1 and 2 power blocks have been placed by Avanzia, which is the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor for the facilities. The combined […]
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23 April 2015
France-based Alstom has won a service extension contract for the maintenance of the UK’s 317MW Sheringham Shoal offshore wind farm. Statkraft has awarded the new contract to Alstom as an extension to the previous contract for the facility, which was commissioned in September 2012. Scrira Offshore Energy, a joint venture formed by Statoil and Statkraft, […]
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20 April 2015
German power manufacturer Siemens has started commissioning converter stations for high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission link between France and Spain. Scheduled to be fully commissioned by the middle of this year, the link will increase the energy-exchange capacity between the two European nations by 100%, thereby increasing its reliability. Presently, 1,400MW of power is being […]
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17 April 2015
Sam Roch-Perks’s company plans to develop wave energy farm off Cornwall coast Sam Roch-Perks, a Cork property investor-turned renewable energy promoter, whose company plans to develop a huge wave energy farm off the Cornwall coast, has assembled a coterie of high-profile backers to help float the project. Roch-Perks runs Simply Blue Energy with his business […]
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17 April 2015
German power manufacturer Siemens has started commissioning converter stations for high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission link between France and Spain. Scheduled to be fully commissioned by the middle of this year, the link will increase the energy-exchange capacity between the two European nations by 100%, thereby increasing its reliability. Presently, 1,400MW of power is being […]
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