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ScottishPower Renewables joins forces with Atlantis Resources to establish the largest tidal stream portfolio in the UK

18 December 2015

Atlantis and ScottishPower Renewables (UK) Limited (SPR) are teaming up to develop a joint portfolio of projects for the fast growing tidal sector, Atlantis announced yesterday (Tuesday). Atlantis’s Scottish project development vehicle, Tidal Power Scotland Limited (TPSL), will acquire SPR’s portfolio of tidal projects in exchange for a 6% shareholding in TPSL for SPR. As […]

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Aveva and Schneider Electric abandon deal talks

15 December 2015

French energy giant Schneider Electric has cancelled the complex £1.3bn intended deal (€1.8bn), which involved the acquisition of UK-based engineering software provider Aveva Group. The French firm had announced about the possible takeover in July, which would have entitled it to own a controlling 53.5% stake in Aveva for an investment of £550m (€761m), but […]

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Finnish fuel cell technology to generate power from wastewater in Italy

15 December 2015

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Convion will be demonstrating, in Italy, fuel cell systems supporting cogeneration of heat and power, from biogas generated through waste water treatment. The 175kW cells have been developed by the Finnish company Convion and will be presented as part of a pilot project for solid oxide fuel cells […]

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Posted in Alternative Energy, Biogas Energy, Clean Tech0 Comments

Germany to set out climate action plan by mid-2016

15 December 2015

“Germany will lay out a climate action plan for 2050 by the middle of next year, and is talking to industry groups and trade unions about ways to end coal-fired power generation”, its Environment Minister said yesterday (Monday). Global leaders clinched a breakthrough deal in Paris on Saturday to transform the world’s fossil fuel-driven economy […]

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New electricity connections between Lithuania, Poland and Sweden create “Baltic Ring”

15 December 2015

Two new electricity interconnections connecting Lithuania to Poland and Sweden have been officially inaugurated yesterday (Monday). The LitPol Link connects Alytus in Lithuania with Elk in Poland and the Nordbalt links up Nybro in Sweden and Klaipeda in Lithuania. These two links will add 1200 MW of interconnection capacity to the region. This means that, […]

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Natixis and Swiss target offshore

14 December 2015

Infrastructure investor Natixis and insurance outfit Swiss Life have signed an debt cooperation agreement with €300m already committed and an offshore wind project ready to roll. The partners said the wider deal will “benefit from the expertise of Swiss Life Asset Managers and Natixis in this asset class”. They added initial co-finance of the unnamed […]

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MegaGroup announces new Bosnia-based PV ingots and wafer production plant

14 December 2015

Italian company MegaGroup is to build a manufacturing plant for solar products in Bosnia. The factory will have a capacity of 120MW a year and will be built on 20,000 square metres of land in Kozarska Dubica. The €12.5m facility will make mono and polycrystalline silicon ingots and wafers for photovoltaic cells in its first […]

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Ireland at COP21: Minister White claims Ireland is on target for 16pc renewables

09 December 2015

As Paris’conference COP21 is coming to an end, Ireland’s Minister for Energy Alex White declared, when he arrived last Monday, that Ireland can still make the objective of 16pc renewable energy production by 2020. Speaking last week, Taoiseach Enda Kenny also said that the target set for Ireland, lowering carbon emissions by 20pc by 2020, […]

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Poland push for EDF

09 December 2015

EDF Energies Nouvelles said today its local subsidiary EDF EN Polska has commissioned the 58-MW Rzepin wind farm in Lubuskie region, north-western Poland. The wind farm, which consists of 29 turbines each with a capacity of 2MW, is the second one to have been installed by EDF in Poland since it entered the market in […]

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EU energy project : make photovoltaic technology full component of new buildings

09 December 2015

Nowadays it’s not uncommon to see solar panels added to rooftops, but a new EU-funded project, “Construct PV”, is working on how to integrate photovoltaic (PV) systems into buildings from their very inception. The new technology can be used to replace parts of conventional building materials, such as roofs, skylights and facades. It means that […]

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