26 March 2014
Brookfield Renewable, one of the largest Canadian renewable-energy firms, has made a major push into Europe with the purchase of 17 Irish wind-energy projects worth an estimated €700m. The company announced the deal as part of its acquisition of all of Bord Gáis’ energy business. A consortium that includes Brookfield Renewable, Centrica plc and iCON […]
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25 March 2014
Atkins has won an engineering contract for the Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm in the UK. The scope of the contract includes design and engineering services for the monopile foundations for the 6MW turbines as well as management assistance during fabrication and installation. To be located 20 miles off the coast of Cromer in North Norfolk, […]
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25 March 2014
The UK Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has announced that four businesses will share more than £4m (€4.8m) in grants to support R&D into offshore wind power. The grants have been awarded as part of the DECC’s innovation competition to support development of offshore wind power. DECC minister Greg Barker said that 2-B […]
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25 March 2014
Italian renewable energy companies Enel Green Power and SECI Energia will develop a new 30MW biomass power project in the town of Russi, near Ravenna in Italy. The two companies will develop the Powercrop biomass project with an investment of €126m in an industrial area previously occupied by the Eridania sugar refinery. The 30MW power […]
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24 March 2014
Welcoming the opportunity to address the AD industry at the sector’s largest dedicated event, UK AD & Biogas 2014 (2-3 July), Partha Vasudev, Vice President Waste & Bioenergy, Green Investment Bank (GIB), has been confirmed a key speaker at the ADBA organised annual show. The Green Investment Bank has an important role to play in […]
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20 March 2014
UK chancellor George Osborne has announced a £7bn package in the 2014 budget to cut down energy costs for British manufacturers and households by 2019. Around 80% of energy manufacturers, based in the north of England, Scotland and Wales, will particularly benefit from the package. The government will suspend the carbon tax charged on the […]
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20 March 2014
German energy provider RheinEnergie has awarded a contract to Alstom to supply a generator transformer for the combined-cycle heat and power plant (CHP) in Niehl, Cologne (Germany). The transformer which has a power output of 560MVA, 410/21kV, will transmit the energy generated by the power plant into the Cologne power grid. To be manufactured at […]
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20 March 2014
UK-based Highview Power Storage (HPS) has signed a global licensing and technology collaboration agreement with GE Oil & Gas for developing liquid air energy storage (LAES) systems. Under the agreement, the companies will look into integrating Highview’s LAES technology in power plants where GE gas turbines will be installed. HPS LAES technology uses liquid air […]
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20 March 2014
Vestas has signed a framework agreement with German wind power plant developer juwi for 75 units of Vestas’ 3MW platform, with an order for 21MW now firm and unconditional. Under the firm and unconditional order, Vestas will supply seven V112-3.0 MW turbines to be installed in Rhineland-Palatinate during the third quarter of 2014. The contract […]
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20 March 2014
A report released by the European Photovoltaic Industry Association (EPIA) shows that in 2013, enough solar panels were installed across the globe to create approximately 37GW of solar power. According to Gaëtan Masson, the association’s head of business intelligence, this brings the world’s total solar energy output to 136.7GW up to 2013 which was a […]
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