Europe & UK

Europe & UK

Siemens Gamesa wins order from Orsted for 900 MW wind project

June 25, 2019 Anand Gupta

Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy has received the firm order from Orsted for its 900 MW Greater Changhua 1 & 2a offshore wind power project in Taiwan. Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy will supply the Asia-Pacific variant of the SG 8.0-167 DD offshore wind turbine for the wind power project. Siemens Gamesa will set up a nacelle […]

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Limekiln Wind Farm Gets Green Light from Scottish Government

June 24, 2019 Anand Gupta

Montreal: Green energy firms Infinergy and Boralex have welcomed the Scottish Government’s decision to grant approval of their 21-turbine wind farm at Limekiln, south of Reay in Caithness. The wind farm has a grid connection contract in place for 90 MW. Esbjorn Wilmar, Managing Director of Infinergy said: “We are delighted that the Scottish Government […]

JUMEME Lake victoria solar minigrids project – RP Global – Low RES

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The European Union and JUMEME inaugurate new solar-powered mini-grid on Lake Victoria’s Mulumo Island in Kagera Region

June 24, 2019 Anand Gupta

Kagera Region, Tanzania: JUMEME Rural Power Supply Ltd. (JUMEME), together with the European Union Delegation in Tanzania and its project partners, celebrated the launch of its newly constructed solar-powered mini-grid on Lake Victoria, Mulumo island in the region of Kagera. The facility in Mulumo is one of eleven mini-grids to be commissioned on 10 different […]

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Poland eyes green energy investments in Western Balkans: minister

June 24, 2019 Anand Gupta

WARSAW: Polish energy groups could invest in renewable power in Western Balkan countries that eye European Union membership, Jadwiga Emilewicz, minister for entrepreneurship and technology said. Poland backs the EU bids of the Western Balkan nations, including Serbia, which is Warsaw’s biggest trade partner in the region, as well as North Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegowina. […]

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Clean energy projects worth $1.5 billion seek Finnish aid

June 22, 2019 Anand Gupta

Finland aims to reduce its carbon emissions and it approved earlier in the year a ban on the use of coal in energy production by May 2029, forcing some of its biggest utilities to find alternative energy solutions OSLO: Fifteen companies have applied for Finnish investment aid to partly fund new large-scale demonstration energy projects […]

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Is There a Place for Europe in the Growing Utility Solar-Plus-Storage Market?

June 21, 2019 Anand Gupta

The short answer is yes, but it will take further growth of subsidy-free solar projects to get there. The global front-of-the-meter (FTM) solar-plus-storage market took off in 2018, with more than 6 times as many new solar-paired storage megawatts deployed than in the previous year. 2019 is also forecasted to be a strong year for […]

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ENGIE Greens Power Consumption of Smart Energy Decisions’ Distributed Energy Forum

June 21, 2019 Anand Gupta

HOUSTON: ENGIE North America is shaping a sustainable future by supplying renewable energy certificates (RECs) to Smart Energy Decisions’ Distributed Energy Forum to be held June 24-27 at the Gaylord Rockies Resort & Convention Center near Denver, Colorado. The Green-e® certified RECs will offset 100% of the three-day event’s anticipated energy consumption, while helping to fund the development and operation […]

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Italy’s Edison buys EDF assets to boost green credentials

June 20, 2019 Anand Gupta

MILAN: Italy’s Edison has agreed to buy green energy assets from its French parent company EDF to make it Italy’s No. 2 wind player and pave the way for “major” growth in solar power. In a complex deal, Edison will pay 172.9 million euros ($194 million) to buy 265 megawatts of Italian wind assets from […]

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German network agency approves solar power projects

June 20, 2019 Anand Gupta

The majority of the approved capacity was for Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state in the northeast, at an average price of $0.0613 cents per kWh, down from 6.59 cents awarded in the previous round FRANKFURT: Germany’s federal network agency on Wednesday reported it had approved 14 bids for a solar power capacity of 205 megawatts (MW) in this […]

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Finland: Climate and Environment – EIB and NIB Group strengthen cooperation

June 19, 2019 Anand Gupta

European Investment Bank (EIB) and Nordic Investment Bank (NIB) Group reconfirm joint commitments at high-level meeting in Helsinki Close cooperation on climate and environmental sustainability with a view to the future. In the margins of the EIB’s management committee visit to Helsinki this week, a high-level meeting between took place with the top management of […]