Featured Stories
 

Minister Naughten Awards €20m in Community Energy Grants

The search for a high flying clean energy generator

MHI Vestas to supply V164-8.0MW offshore wind turbines in Denmark

07 July 2014

MHI Vestas Offshore Wind (MVOW) has signed a conditional agreement with Skovgaard Invest and Energicenter Nord to supply four V164-8.0MW offshore wind turbines for the Velling Mærsk project in Western Denmark. MVOW is a joint venture between Vestas Wind Systems (50%) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (50%). The 0-series of the V164-8.0MW will be used by […]

Read the full story

Posted in Business, Wind Energy0 Comments

Statnett selects ABB’s mobile GIS for 420kV transmission line in Norway

07 July 2014

ABB has been selected by Statnett to provide an integrated gas-insulated switchgear (GIS) for deployment in two substations in order to provide temporary power supply to Statnett’s new 420kV transmission line in northern Norway. The new line, which is approximately 500km in length, has two sections that will run from Ofoten to Balsfjord, and from […]

Read the full story

Posted in Business, Renewable Energy0 Comments

Irish solar energy group raises over €900,000 through crowdfunding

07 July 2014

BNRG Renewables, an Irish-based solar energy group, has raised €918,000 to re-finance two solar farms in Kent powering 82homes using the power of online crowdfunding. The two 249kW sites in the UK, known as BNRG Gorse, have over 540 investors each expecting inflation linked returns of 7.35pc with BNRG funding the projects initially off balance […]

Read the full story

Posted in Clean Tech, Solar Energy0 Comments

First Nations, CEBC sign agreement for small hydro development in British Columbia

07 July 2014

A memorandum of understanding signed this past week sets up an agreement between BC First Nations and the Clean Energy Association of BC (CEBC) to cooperate in developing British Columbia’s renewable sector, including hydroelectric power. The document — which includes the signatures of 13 First Nations groups, the First Nations Energy and Mining Council, and […]

Read the full story

Posted in Biogas Energy, Biomass Energy, Hydroeletric Energy, Renewable Energy, Solar Energy, Wind Energy0 Comments

Northern Ireland set to ROC on to 2017

07 July 2014

Proposals that the level of incentives for the small-scale onshore wind sector in Northern Ireland should remain at 4 ROCs until at least 2017 have been greeted with relief by the local industry. The new announcement from Northern Ireland’s Enterprise, Trade and Investment Minister Arlene Foster follows a year-long review by the department into subsidies […]

Read the full story

Posted in Wind Energy0 Comments

IBM launches new initiative to help China meet its environmental goals

07 July 2014

IBM has launched a new project, known as Green Horizon, aimed to help China deliver on ambitious energy and environmental goals. IBM’s China Research laboratory-led ten-year initiative, which will support China in transforming its national energy systems, sets out to leap beyond current global practices in air quality management, renewable energy forecasting and energy optimisation […]

Read the full story

Posted in Renewable Energy0 Comments

MHI Vestas to supply V164-8.0MW offshore wind turbines in Denmark

07 July 2014

MHI Vestas Offshore Wind (MVOW) has signed a conditional agreement with Skovgaard Invest and Energicenter Nord to supply four V164-8.0MW offshore wind turbines for the Velling Mærsk project in Western Denmark. MVOW is a joint venture between Vestas Wind Systems (50%) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (50%). The 0-series of the V164-8.0MW will be used by […]

Read the full story

Posted in Wind Energy0 Comments

US DOE issues $4bn loan guarantees for innovative renewable energy projects

04 July 2014

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has issued up to $4bn in loan guarantees to support innovative renewable energy and energy efficiency projects in the country which can avoid, reduce, or sequester greenhouse gas emissions. Issued in support of the President’s Climate Action Plan, the solicitation marks a step ahead in supporting the DOE’s effort […]

Read the full story

Posted in Renewable Energy0 Comments

Brazil plans local content solar rules to spur domestic industry

04 July 2014

Brazil is drafting local-content policies designed to spur the development of a domestic solar- manufacturing industry. The country’s Energy Research Agency, known as EPE, and the state development bank BNDES are developing regulations now and may announce them “very soon,” Mauricio Tolmasquim, the head of EPE, said in a telephone interview yesterday. Brazil gets less […]

Read the full story

Posted in Solar Energy0 Comments

GIB to provide funding for biogas plants in Northern Ireland

04 July 2014

The UK Green Investment Bank plc (GIB) has announced plans to provide funding for two anaerobic digestion plants on farms in Northern Ireland, with several other AD projects thought to be in the pipeline in the region. The projects, in Cookstown, County Tyrone and Banbridge, County Down, will be used by local livestock farmers and […]

Read the full story

Posted in Biogas Energy0 Comments

1

Industry Video

Upcoming Events

  • No upcoming events
AEC v1.0.4

Newsletter Signup


Advertisements

The Magazine

Advertisements