Global Renewable News

DECEMBER 19, 2023

In October the European Commission published the Wind Power Package: 15 immediate actions to strengthen the competitiveness of Europe's wind value chain. The European Commission and European Inves.

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Global Renewable News

AUGUST 9, 2023

Statkraft, Europe's largest renewable energy producer, and the biopharmaceutical company AstraZeneca have entered into an agreement on wind power deliveries that will increase the supply of renewa.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 29, 2020

Shell's much-discussed Sky scenario from 2018, which charts a path to meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement, forecasts nuclear and fossil fuels each accounting for roughly 11 percent of Europe's mix in 2050. Bradley noted that different countries and regions will see very different technology mixes.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The global shift towards renewable energy sources has gained significant momentum in recent years, with wind energy playing a pivotal role in this transition. As the world grapples with the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and combat climate change, many countries have embraced wind power as a clean and sustainable solution.

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2020

But few sectors can lay as strong a claim for playing a central and strategic role in any recovery, as the renewables industry in general and the wind power sector in particular. Furthermore, 1GW of offshore wind power avoids 3.5 But wind remained resilient. Our turbines produced a record amount of electricity.

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Global Renewable News

APRIL 21, 2024

Statkraft, Europe's largest producer of renewable power, and Deutsche Bahn have concluded further power purchase agreements (PPAs) for the supply of green power from hydropower and onshore wind fa.

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Business Green

JUNE 21, 2022

Overall, Europe boasts an offshore wind pipeline of 350GW, with 26GW fully operational, while the pipeline in countries outside Europe stands at 496GW. Australia, Italy, the USA and Finland also have significant floating wind pipelines, the data shows.

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Business Green

MARCH 10, 2022

Clean energy investor has added onshore wind projects across the UK, Sweden, France, and Finland to its portfolio. All signed in the past three months, the deals are expected to boost Octopus Renewables' total wind power capacity by up to 90 per cent over the coming decade, it said. We need to generate more cheap, clean power.".

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2020

A major renewable energy infrastructure project is to bring wind power from Shetland to the UK mainland via Europe's first multi-terminal high-voltage direct-current (HVDC) interconnection, the firms behind the development announced yesterday. Major milestone reached for pioneering green grid project.

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Forbes Green Tech

JANUARY 25, 2021

The results are in: last year, for the first time, renewables generated more electricity than fossil fuels across the EU, spurred on by new solar and wind power projects.

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Business Green

JANUARY 10, 2022

Kimberley-Clark, Eesti Energy and Owens Coming have all signed deals to directly buy wind power from Octopus Renewables. Octopus Energy Generation CEO Zoisa North-Bond touted the corporate offtake deals as a "massive step forward for decarbonisation agendas across Europe". "To

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Green Market Oracle

JUNE 15, 2020

Wind is key to our energy mix because it reduces fossil fuel use which combats climate change and contributes to cleaner air. There is now more than 591GW of wind power capacity installed globally in 91 countries, with continued growth predicted. Advances in wind energy has made turbines bigger and more efficient.

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altenergymag

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

ENGIE supplies renewable energy to INEOS from the Norther offshore windfarm in the North Sea from 1st January 2021 • Gerd Franken Chairman INEOS Olefins & Polymers Europe said: “This significant deal, will reduce our carbon footprint in Belgium by more than one million tonnes of CO2, the equivalent of taking 100,000 cars off the road each year.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 15, 2023

To mark Global Wind Day 2023 on June 15, ABB – which describes itself as the largest supplier of electrical components to the wind industry around the world – discusses the measures needed to achieve the UK’s goals in relation to offshore wind power. This load factor = 0.402.

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Business Green

APRIL 27, 2020

The 125GWh deal, which comes into effect from 1 May, will cover half of the food and beverage giant's power consumption in the UK and should ensure that, once combined with other deals, all the firm's electricity consumption is covered by wind power generation, backed by certificates.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2024

The battery, said to be strategically placed to harness Scotland’s abundant wind generation from offshore wind farms, was the first of Zenobē’s portfolio of projects in Scotland to go live and the first to connect directly onto the Scottish transmission network.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Shell, Gasunie, and Groningen Seaports launch ambitious plans to build green hydrogen hub for northern Europe. A new consortium has this week unveiled ambitious plans to build Europe's largest green hydrogen production 'mega-facility', which would source offshore wind power to produce zero emission hydrogen at a new site on the Dutch coast.

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The Guardian: Energy

APRIL 17, 2024

Enrico Antonini, from the Carnegie Institution for Science in Stanford, US, and colleagues analysed global climate data dating back to 1979, calculating wind power, seasonal and weather variability in each region.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 18, 2020

The study is part of an ongoing £2.75m research programme attached to the offshore wind project that is exploring the impacts of offshore wind power installations on local economic ecosystems and communities. It estimates every wind turbine in Europe generates on average of €10m of economic activity.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2020

But Global Wind Energy Council forced to revise its forecasts for 2020 and beyond as coronavirus fallout continues. Meanwhile, the growing number of wind farms around the world continues to be largely driven by financing via market based policy mechanisms, such as the UK's Contracts for Difference scheme, it seems.

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The Guardian: Energy

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Rising construction and financing costs are likely to require fresh policies from the UK and US One of the world’s biggest wind turbine makers has reignited concerns over the headwinds facing the industry after losing billions in market value this week.

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Business Green

APRIL 14, 2021

UK leads the way as Europe's onshore and offshore wind sector sees investment grow 70 per cent, despite Covid-19 disruption. WindEurope CEO Giles Dickson said last year's investment sums showed wind energy remained an attractive investment despite the pandemic, with plenty of capital available to finance new capacity.

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AutoGrid

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Hey, Europe: You Can’t Get to 100% Renewables Without Demand Side Flexibility. Europe has inspired the world with its ambitious renewables integration, smart energy trading, and grid balancing. An important new study from Smart Energy Europe (SmartEn) makes the case for increased DSF in Europe to meet aggressive climate action targets.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 26, 2021

Coal power slumped by 20 percent year-on-year while solar and wind power grew 15 percent and 9 percent, respectively. SolarPower Europe tracked 18.2 European Union countries generated more electricity from renewables than from coal and gas for the first time ever in 2020, according to a report released Monday.

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Mr. Sustainability

AUGUST 26, 2020

Summary - Europe and China double-down on renewables, investing hundreds of billions into electric vehicles, solar, wind and hydrogen. Germany recently unveiled a $145-billion (130 billion euro) recovery plan for Europe’s largest and strongest economy. Big time investments in Hydrogen Europe is also betting big on hydrogen.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

In both cases, the long-term anchor source of energy will be offshore wind power. The term "hybrid" offshore wind projects in Europe is also used to describe projects that double as interconnectors between two countries. All in all, the U.K.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 14, 2024

Also, the Inkoo area has been identified as a potential connection area if offshore wind power development becomes feasible in Finland’s southern sea areas. The connection points were identified in a study initiated by Fingrid and the results were launched in late 2023, focusing on offshore wind power connection possibilities.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

By Jan Patrick Schulz, CEO of Landbell and initiator of Europe’s largest Circular Economy Prize, the Green Alley Award. Europe has long been a welcoming home to sustainable minded companies. As one of the early homes of solar energy and wind power, circular economy was also an idea that found early adoption in the continent.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MAY 13, 2024

The company plans to become one of the market leaders in Europe by establishing large-scale hydrogen production plants based on their partner PERIC’s world-leading tech for pressurized alkaline electrolysis stacks. Kraft added that hydrogen is the focus of Siemen’s global investment in P2X.

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FuelCellsWorks

APRIL 23, 2024

H2Carrier AS, a pioneering Norwegian developer, has unveiled ambitious plans to establish Norway’s first integrated Power-to-X (PtX) and wind power project in the remote region of Finnmark. The project includes.

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Business Green

MARCH 16, 2020

The European wind power sector is braced for potential economic headwinds in the wake of the escalating coronavirus outbreak, with trade body WindEurope today warning that some supply chains are already being hit by delays.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2022

At present, the UK has a target for 40GW of offshore wind power by 2030, which would mark a significant uptick from around 11GW in 2020. The target sits alongside a separate goal for 1GW of floating wind power capacity, a more nascent technology that allows turbines to capture stronger wind speeds further out at sea.

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The Guardian: Energy

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Increase the rate of growth of solar and wind power from its current high of 14% a year to 24% a year. Cut meat consumption from ruminants such as cows and sheep to about two servings a week in the US, Europe and other high-consuming countries by 2030. Continue reading.

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Business Green

APRIL 5, 2022

The global wind industry has shown impressive resilience through the COVID-19 pandemic, but growth rates still need to quadruple by 2030 if the sector is to play a full role in keeping the Paris Agreement's 1.5C per cent less than the year-over-year wind energy growth rate in 2020. temperature goal "alive".

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PV Tech

JANUARY 23, 2024

Italy generated record-breaking volumes of both solar PV and wind power in 2023, producing 30.6TWh and 23.4TWh of electricity, respectively.

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Global Renewable News

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Highlights EIB unveils dedicated package of counter-guarantees to improve access to finance for wind power sector Board of Directors also approves financing for energy, transport, business and.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 31, 2020

“If you look at the western part of Denmark, where we have a lot of wind power, people make the observation that when we have a lot of wind all these wind turbines are not running," Bach told GTM. An analysis by Danish energy consultant Paul-Frederik Bach shows 1.2 They ask: ‘How is that?’

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