08 January 2016
Cluff Natural Resources has shelved plans to drill for unconventional gas under the Firth of Forth and will shift its focus to projects outside Scotland. The energy giant had planned to build the UK’s first deep offshore underground coal gasification (UCG) plant at Kincardine in Fife, but its plans were put on hold last year […]
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07 January 2016
AES UK & Ireland has completed the 10MW Kilroot Advancion energy storage array at Kilroot power station in Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland. AES said the array, made of 53,000 batteries arranged in 136 separate nodes, uses the Advancion 4 energy storage solution and aims to enhance grid reliability by providing fast response ancillary services, such as […]
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07 January 2016
RES has won a contract from Western Power Distribution (WPD) to build and support its first battery energy storage system alongside British Solar Renewables 1.5MW solar park at Copley Wood in Somerset. The £1m project (€1.3m) is part of a WPD-led initiative to investigate the technical and commercial feasibility of battery energy storage combined within […]
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07 January 2016
SSE and Coillte have completed a financing deal worth €176m for the 105MW second phase of the Galway Wind Park in the west of Ireland. The total 169MW project, located south-west of Oughterard, is set to be Ireland’s largest wind farm. The JV pair have signed off on a deal with Spanish bank BBVA, Dutch […]
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06 January 2016
Dutch company Reikon Beheer is to market and deploy SheerWind’s Invelox wind power generating systems in the Netherlands. The Invelox system collects wind in a funnel system that aims to increase its speed before delivering it to multiple turbines. The licensing agreement is US company SheerWind’s second in Europe and fifth globally allowing its technology […]
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06 January 2016
The Irish wind industry has launched a publicity campaign to highlight its potential to replace costly fossil fuel imports. Devised by advertising agency Rothco with the Irish Wind Energy Association (IWEA), the “Power To Power Ourselves” campaign says the country is in a “unique” position to decrease its “astonishing” 85% reliance on imported energy : […]
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06 January 2016
Vattenfall is set to invest around €5.5bn in wind energy through 2020, wind chief Gunnar Groebler told German media : “This equals more or less the amount the company has invested in wind energy in the last 10 years”, he added. The investment will help to double the capacity of Vattenfall’s on and offshore wind […]
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06 January 2016
France-based compagny Valbio has developed a new power station that generates electricity from skimmed whey, a by-product derived from Beaufort cheese. Located at Albertville in Savoie region, France, the plant has been operational since October and serving the power requirements of a local community with 1,500 inhabitants. The facility has the capacity to produce about […]
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06 January 2016
On Friday, 18 of December, UK Coal closed Britain’s last deep-cast coal mine, Kellingley Colliery, 50 years after it opened. 450 jobs are expected to be lost. The closure of the North Yorkshire mine marks the end of an era, given Britain’s coal industry was at the heart of its economic growth in the early […]
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06 January 2016
Today, the vast majority of biofuels used in vehicles with petrol engines are made with first generation bioethanol produced using resources such as wheat, maize, sugar beet and sugar cane. However, an EU-funded project is creating second generation biofuel from agricultural residues, avoiding any land use conflict with the food and feed sectors which first […]
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