11 March 2014
Rolls-Royce has won a contract to supply water jets for three wind farm support vessels. The company will supply three wind farm workboats, one 24m and two 26m aluminium catamarans to be built by South Boats IOW for the offshore wind transfer vessel operator Seacat Services. The company claims the contract as one of the […]
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11 March 2014
Voith has completed work on the 95MW Budarhals hydro power plant in Iceland. The project has been commissioned during an opening ceremony on 7 March 2014, which was held by Voith and Landsvirkjun, the national power company in Iceland. The company has supplied and installed two Kaplan turbines, which has water-filled runner hubs. It also […]
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10 March 2014
UK-based Renewable Energy Systems has scrapped its plans to build a £300m (€362.4m) biomass power station project at the Port of Blyth in Northumberland due to uncertainty in UK energy policy. RES has blamed the government’s inconsistent support for dedicated biomass energy over the last two years. Termination of the project results in loss of […]
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10 March 2014
KGAL Group, through its Enhanced Sustainable Power Fund 3 (ESPF 3), has acquired interest in the Seine Rive Gauche Nord (SRN) wind farm project that is being developed by H2air Group and Nordex Group. H2airPx, a subsidiary of H2Air, and Nordex are responsible for the turnkey construction of the wind farm located in Aube, the […]
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10 March 2014
Shell UK has awarded a front-end engineering design (FEED) contract to Technip for the onshore elements of the Peterhead gas carbon capture and storage (CCS) demonstration project in Scotland. The FEED contract includes a grassroots carbon capture and compression plant and modifications to an existing combined cycle gas turbine power plant. Located in Aberdeenshire, the […]
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10 March 2014
BWP Eider has awarded a contract to Vestas to supply turbines for one of Germany’s largest citizen-owned wind power plants. Under the contract, Vestas will supply 72.6MW worth of wind turbines to be installed in the region of Eider in Schleswig-Holstein. Delivery of wind turbines will begin in the third quarter of 2014 and commissioning […]
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06 March 2014
GE Power Conversion has completed trials of PassiveBoost, a technology that is designed to allow remote power networks to go direct current (DC), and would reduce the cost of offshore wind energy by 15%. The new system will increase the electrical output delivered from renewable energy sources in distant, inhospitable places. Trials for the new […]
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06 March 2014
Westinghouse Electric has installed a fully passive containment filtered venting system (PCFVS) at the Nuklearna Elektrarna Krško nuclear power plant in Slovenia. The upgrade to the nuclear plant will increase safety in the event of a severe nuclear accident. The Slovenian Nuclear Safety Administration has made a compulsion of such upgrades following the March 2011 […]
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06 March 2014
Erste Group Bank, together with The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and Banca Comerciala Româna (BCR), is providing €76m financing for the construction of the 108MW Crucea North wind farm in Romania. As a mandated lead arranger, Erste Group Bank will provide €49m for the project in a parallel term loan structure with […]
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05 March 2014
Sierra, part of the Siteserv Group and one of Ireland’s leading support service providers to the telecommunications, power and energy, and civil engineering sectors, is pleased to announce the appointment of Paul Kenny as Finance Director. Paul’s most recent role was with Greencore USA as the Chief Financial Officer and, prior to that, Group Head […]
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