Business Green

OCTOBER 18, 2020

The study found that the developer had underestimated the value the farm would have on the local and Scotland-wide economies in the planning and development, onshore construction, and operation and maintenance (O&M) phases. The value of the offshore construction stage, on the other hand, had been overestimated, according to the analysis.

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The Guardian: Energy

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Retire about 240 average-sized coal-fired power plants a year, every year between now and 2030. Construct the equivalent of three New Yorks’ worth of public transport systems in cities around the world each year this decade. Increase the rate of growth of solar and wind power from its current high of 14% a year to 24% a year.

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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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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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Renewable Energy World

MAY 20, 2021

Substation to be shared by two offshore wind farms with a combined capacity of 826 MW. The offshore substation will house the technical equipment to collect the electricity produced by the wind turbines and connect it to the onshore transmission grid in Lubmin.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 14, 2021

GE Renewable Energy and LafargeHolcim have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to explore circular economy solutions using materials from decommissioned wind turbines. Geocycle offers co-processing solutions for wind blades in Germany and will evaluate the possibility of extending this solution to other parts of Europe.

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Business Green

JANUARY 29, 2021

Spain has delivered the lowest prices ever seen for onshore wind in Europe," said Giles Dickson, CEO at trade body WindEurope, highlighting bids from onshore wind developers that ranged from €20/MWh to €28.89/MWh. The European wind industry continues to reduce costs through innovation, scale and learning effects.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 20, 2024

Danish TSO Energinet has signed an agreement with Siemens Energy on a comprehensive expansion of the power grid in Western Denmark. By 2030, Denmark must quadruple its electricity generation from wind and solar power, with more to come in the following decades. Otherwise we risk a major delay on our construction projects.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Saudi Arabia is constructing a futuristic city in the desert on the Red Sea called Neom. Europe, which has an economy saddled with high energy prices and is heavily dependent on Russian natural gas, is embracing green hydrogen by providing funding for construction of electrolysis plants and other hydrogen infrastructure.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2021

In addition, engineering and project management firm Wood has been contracted to provide construction and asset management for the Maldon battery storage facility. Once completed, the facility is set be the largest grid-scale battery storage array in Europe, according to Sembcorp.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 15, 2022

The seven-metre steel cylinder has been built outside a district heating plant in Kankaanpää, Finland , which contains sand that can be heated to approximately 500°C using inexpensive wind power. The storage has 100kW heating power and 8MWh capacity. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 24, 2020

Europe may be hit hardest. where developers face declining subsidies, wind developers placed a record 100 gigawatts' worth of turbine orders last year. The most severe impacts of that are likely be felt in Europe and potentially the U.S. The global nature of the wind supply chain is likely to limit the impact.

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Business Green

MAY 5, 2020

For example, because wood is cheaper, lighter, and can be transported in smaller modules, construction costs for wooden towers are likely to be lower. Furthermore, a modular approach to construction allows towers to be taller and wider, meaning that turbines can extend longer vertically and operate in places where wind speeds are higher.

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The City Fix

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

One day, it’s catastrophic wildfires wreaking havoc around the world; the next, it’s an optimistic piece on the rapid scale-up of solar and wind power. Today’s climate change headlines often seem at odds with each other. Taken together, such stories.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

BorWin6 is the fifth offshore grid connection for offshore wind farms in the German North Sea that has been constructed under the direction of TenneT. Scheduled for delivery and commissioning in 2027, the system will transmit 980 megawatts of wind power. McDermott’s role.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 22, 2021

For Europe, 2020 represented a historic year for renewable energy sources. Plans for the coming years show that the energy ambitions of Eastern Europe are still untapped. This is where the Green New Deal guidelines meet old and inefficient power plants. (Sponsored Content). By Electrum. And this is only the beginning.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 19, 2020

There's 189 gigawatts of wind capacity in operation across Europe today. Under normal circumstances, major corrective work — such as fixing a broken rotor or gearbox — typically takes no longer than a month, according to Daniel Liu, Wood Mackenzie's principal analyst for wind power O&M.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 18, 2024

He adds that those who plan well “will lead and be at the forefront of the transition”, referencing activities by Iberdrola including helping aeronautics companies to take the lead in wind power, shipbuilders to diversify into offshore wind fabrication and oil and gas workers to switch to offshore renewables.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 1, 2020

Offshore wind is one trend where Europe's renewable energy industry has taken an early lead. But as corporate onshore wind and solar deals pick up in Europe , the first handful of offshore wind deals are now getting done. Google is buying offshore wind power from an Engie project off Belgium.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

This expansion will involve a diverse portfolio, including green fuels initiatives, wind power developments, geothermal energy projects and larger facility undertakings. The ability to service the need for geothermal, hydropower and power transmission projects is of great importance.”

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 15, 2020

“This is a huge business risk,” Yoshinori Ueda, general manager of the Japan Wind Power Association (JWPA), said in an email. First big offshore project to enter construction in 2021. Partners on the project include Kansai Electric Power and Chubu Electric.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 13, 2023

For example, in windy weather, the prices of renewable energy are low, and therefore, its financial benefit remains low, i.e., wind power becomes a less lucrative investment option. This has led to the construction of batteries next to the turbines, which enables the energy to be discharged into the grid more evenly.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Denmark’s North Sea energy island will produce 3 GW of energy, with a long-term expansion goal of 10 GW, using 200 offshore wind turbines. Ørsted is adding industrial construction experts Aarsleff, Bouygues, and Van Oord to its bid for the project.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 25, 2022

This will make it possible to use car batteries as a buffer in a sustainable grid system where solar and wind power are the main energy sources. In the past three years, more than 1,000 bi-directional charging points have been constructed throughout the region. EV next to Cartesius model. Image courtesy of Hyundai Motors.

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The Environmental Blog

AUGUST 28, 2020

However wind energy generation is closely looked at by many governments, especially in Africa, for its permanent consistency in the continent which should result in high profitability for the embedded countries due to low cost and sustainability. For example, Denmark receives over 50% of its electricity from the wind farms.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The deal, which sees the Group expand its geographical scope, forms part of its growth strategy focussed on that country as well as Europe as it seeks to become an international energy company. Elia Group is acquiring a 35.1% share in energRe Giga Projects with a $400 million investment over the next three years.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 14, 2020

offshore wind market, but it will need to go through early market frontrunner Ørsted to get there. gigawatts of capacity online in its Kitty Hawk lease area off North Carolina, while opening up Vineyard Wind's second large zone in southern New England for construction. offshore wind employees as it scales up.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 12, 2022

Iberdrola has over 170 years of history and is now a global energy leader, the number one producer of wind power, and one of the world’s biggest electricity utilities in terms of market capitalisation. Iberdrola has commenced construction of the largest plant producing green hydrogen for industrial use in Europe.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 16, 2023

There are a number of studies that need to be completed before construction work on the geothermal plant can start. We are pleased that, in addition to wind power, solar energy and wood, we can now use geothermal energy to create the basis for the extraction of another natural resource.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The contract will see Vattenfall deliver grid connection infrastructure for the Norfolk Boreas Offshore Wind Farm off the British coast. It will deliver its first power in 2027. Offshore wind power. Courtesy Vattenfall.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

To meet domestic and international renewable and climate change targets, North Sea Link will help increase opportunities for shared use of renewable energy - a mix of generation, including wind power from the UK and hydropower from Norway. North Sea Link will be National Grid's fifth interconnector to Europe. million homes.

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Business Green

APRIL 19, 2021

Headquartered in Cork, Ireland, BRI has 389MW of onshore wind assets in operation and under construction, a further 149MW in advanced development, and more than 1GW of development pipeline in Ireland and the UK. "In That's why this contract signing is such good news.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The European Investment Bank (EIB) is providing Dutch-German TSO TenneT with a loan of €450 million ($440 million) for the construction of a 185km electricity transmission corridor — the Ostbayernring — connecting Redwitz to Schwandorf in the south-east of Germany. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed.

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Business Green

JANUARY 22, 2021

As with the rest of the growing fleet of UK interconnectors the cable is designed to expediate trade in power between different countries, making it easier for grid operators to balance grids across northern Europe that are increasingly reliant on intermittent renewable power generation.

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Business Green

MARCH 20, 2020

Octopus Renewables is the largest commercial-scale solar energy investor in Europe, boasting over £3.2bn of energy assets under management. "This particular investment is expected to produce enough electricity each year to service the equivalent of 38,000 UK homes.".

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 18, 2019

It now has 1 gigawatt of onshore wind up and running, 670 megawatts under construction plus a 2.5-gigawatt For now, traders are maximizing the company’s onshore wind power by reducing the company’s merchant risk. to represent 10 percent of the global offshore wind market. gigawatt pipeline.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 1, 2021

Several notable offshore wind projects, such as Dogger Bank A&B, the world’s largest offshore wind project, reached their final investment decisions (FID) in 2020. In Germany, Innogy (as part of RWE Renewables) committed to the Kaskasi 2 project in April, after winning the second interim tender for offshore wind in Germany.

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