09 July 2014
The Scottish Government has approved plans to build a 22-turbine wind farm in West Lothian. Located near West Calder, the Harburnhead wind farm is capable of generating 66MW of electricity, which is enough to meet the power demands of 31,000 homes. During the construction phase the wind farm is expected to create around 80 jobs. […]
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09 July 2014
Deutsche Bank AG plans to lend about $1 billion for Japan solar projects, joining Goldman Sachs Group Inc. in funding cleaner energy as the government struggles to restart nuclear power plants after the Fukushima disaster. The bank is ready to provide financing for three to six projects in the next 12 to 18 months, said […]
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09 July 2014
Kawa Solar (Conergy Group) has secured a bank guarantee facility of $60m for the expansion of the company’s solar projects business. The loan facility has been arranged by Deutsche Bank and financed by Tennenbaum Capital Partners and is expected to strengthen financial support across Conergy’s power plants value chain. The value chain ranges from project […]
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09 July 2014
Gamesa has signed binding agreements with Areva to form a 50:50 joint venture (JV) with focus on the offshore wind energy industry, following completion of exclusive talks initiated in January 2013. The JV aims to secure a 20% share of the European offshore wind market by 2020 and deliver 2.8GW of capacity. The transaction, which […]
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09 July 2014
Ireland’s first west coast wave energy project has been awarded €23m in funding from the European Union (EU) to develop the project on a larger scale. As part of the EU’s New Entrant Reserve funding scheme, otherwise known as NER 300, the WestWave project is expected to develop wave energy production facilities by 2018 and […]
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08 July 2014
Caverion has signed an agreement to perform installation work at Fortum’s Loviisa nuclear plant in Finland. Under the agreement, Caverion will conduct installation work on the steel structures, pipelines and also electrical and automation systems in the cooling towers of the power plant. Caverion, which will be responsible for the €2m project execution, will also […]
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08 July 2014
The Crown Estate, manager of the UK seabed, announced today that it has agreed seabed rights for six new wave and tidal current demonstration zones, which will enable locally-based organisations to manage and sub-let parts of the seabed to a range of wave and tidal stream developers. There are also five new wave and tidal […]
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08 July 2014
Toshiba, in conjunction with Ibiden, has produced a new manufacturing technology for reactor core applications in nuclear power plants. The technology reactor core material using silicon carbide (SiC) has been used by Toshiba and Ibiden to create a prototype fuel assembly cover. The two companies have been working together with Nuclear Fuel Industries and Professor Yutaka Kagawa […]
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08 July 2014
Watami Co., a restaurant chain in Japan known best as a hangout for salarymen, is getting into the business of selling power — and it isn’t alone. The number of companies registered to sell electricity in Japan has more than doubled to 274 from 106 in September, according to the latest Ministry of Economy, Trade […]
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08 July 2014
Unidaan FZ LLC tapped to supply Vikram Solar solar products and services in ‘MENA’ region. Vikram Solar recently entered into a distributorship agreement with Unidaan FZ LLC, to supply solar products and services in Middle East & North Africa Region. Unidaan and Vikram Solar will work hand in hand to further foster the development of […]
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€10 million loan for the further development of wave energy
Oil hits two-month low on glut fears, technical selling
Farmers advised to exercise ‘caution’ when signing up to any solar energy contract
Indigenous Wind Energy Saved Ireland €70 Million in Energy Imports Since January
MEPs call for more ambitious A-G scale for energy labels
Strafford to construct a new €3m smokeless fuel manufacturing facility
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