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German renewable energy developer Energiequelle GmbH has commissioned a 54-MW wind farm in Lower Saxony, northwest Germany, primarily owned by fellow German company Encavis AG (ETR:ECV). Despite challenging conditions marked by persistent winds and wet, boggy terrain, the project was completed in a record 14 months, according to ...
The European Investment Bank (EIB) signed an agreement to provide €700 million for the construction of two large-scale offshore wind farms developed by Norway’s Equinor and Poland’s Polenergia off the Polish coast of the Baltic Sea. ...
This week renewable energy in New Brunswick takes another major step forward with the signing of four wind Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) and the issuing of new Requests for Expressions of Interest (REOIs) for additional renewable energy to power the New Brunswick grid. The PPAs total just over 450 megawatts of clean wind energy. This milestone underscores NB Power’s leadership in ...
The California Independent System Operator (ISO) has released its draft 2024-2025 Transmission Plan, recommending 31 total projects costing an estimated $4.8 billion at buildout. The vast majority of the projects – 28 of the 31 – are needed to strengthen reliability, meet load growth and adapt to changing grid conditions. The draft plan also identifies a number of transmission ...
Efforts to expand and modernise electricity transmission grids around the world face mounting challenges as supply chain bottlenecks intensify, according to a new IEA report. Prices and procurement times for essential components like power transformers and cables have almost doubled in four years, creating significant hurdles for grid developers.The report, Building the Future Transmission Grid: ...
The Scottish Government have published a report on the impact of off shore wind development on species of fish that undertake regular migrations between freshwater and marine environments. ...
Swedish electrofuel plant developer Liquid Wind has secured EUR 44 million (USD 46.4m) in a Series C funding round, the largest in the company’s history, to aid in the construction of 10 e-fuel facilities by 2027. This significant European funding round in the e-fuels sector for 2024 was led by existing investors, German energy group Uniper SE (ETR:UN0) and UK private equity firm HYCAP, ...
In its 2024 Integrated Resource Plan filed this week with the Virginia State Corporation Commission and the North Carolina Utilities Commission, Dominion Energy Virginia laid out multiple portfolio options to meet rising power demand through significant investments in new power generation from every source, expansion and modernization of the power grid, energy storage, and energy efficiency ...
As announced on the website of the Central Meteorological Observatory, Super Typhoon Yagi, the 11th typhoon of this year, landed in the coast of Wenchang, Hainan at 16:20 on September 6th. At the time of landfall, the maximum wind force near the center was above level 17, with a maximum wind speed of 68m/s and a minimum central pressure of 915 hectopascals, making it the strongest typhoon landed ...
At 17:00 on March 15, a forest fire broke out near Baizi Village, Xiala Town, Yajiang County, Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province. Upon receipt of notification, Leice immediately formed a working group for emergency support, by cooperating with the expert team of the Emergency Management Department and the China Meteorological Administration, and quickly arrived at the scene ...
There are currently 12 gigawatts of projects with active offtake agreements, including 4 GW under active construction at Vineyard Wind, Revolution Wind, and Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind. Across 37 leases in the U.S., there are now 56 GW (56,363 MW) of capacity under development, enough electricity to power the equivalent of 22 ...
The California Energy Commission (CEC) this week took a major step toward achieving the state’s 100 percent clean electricity future by adopting a comprehensive strategic plan that will guide the development of offshore wind energy, one of the largest untapped sources of renewable energy in the state.The plan outlines analysis and strategies to deploy floating turbines off the state’s central and ...
PelaFlex is highly stable with small offsets and zero tilt, reducing wear and tear and improving yield from the wind turbine, courtesy of MPS To coincide with the start of Renewable UK’s Global Offshore Wind trade show in Manchester, Associated British Ports (ABP), the UK’s largest and leading ports operator has announced a new collaboration with Marine Power Services (MPS), a Wales ...
It was a big day for new transmission capacity in California and the West on Wedneday (May 22), with the Independent System Operator's (ISO) Board of Governors taking two important votes to expand the region's transmission network.In one vote, the Board approved the ISO's 2023-2024 transmission plan recommending 26 new projects to support the addition of 85 gigawatts of capacity by 2035. ...
Although the amount of land directly affected by a solar or wind farm is small (relative to the amount of farmland), large-scale, commercial solar and wind development leads to changes in the rural landscape. ...
Federal, state, and industry leaders on Day One of the 2024 Pacific Offshore Wind Summit joined in encouraging California to advance its plans to deploy 25 gigawatts from offshore wind by 2045, as the state sets a course to be a global leader on floating offshore wind power. Speakers at the Summit, hosted by Offshore Wind California (OWC), urged the state to move expeditiously on essential next ...
Salt River Project (SRP) and NextEra Energy Resources, LLC, this week announced Arizona’s largest operational battery energy storage system is now online. Sonoran Solar Energy Center is a 260-megawatt solar facility with the ability to charge a 1 gigawatt-hour battery energy storage system, located south of Buckeye, Arizona. The solar and battery storage system is adding clean energy to the grid ...
The Biden-Harris administration this week announced a series of historic milestones and actions to promote responsible clean energy development on public lands and help achieve President Biden’s goal of creating a carbon pollution-free power sector by 2035.Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland announced that the Department has now permitted more than 25 gigawatts of clean energy projects – ...
The Biden-Harris administration this week announced the Department of the Interior’s approval of the Sunrise Wind offshore wind project – the nation’s seventh approval of a commercial-scale offshore wind project under President Biden’s leadership. These seven projects have the potential to provide more than 8 gigawatts of clean, renewable energy to power roughly 3 million homes, and support the ...
And as the country pushes to decarbonize the energy sector, that power needs to increasingly come from renewable sources, like solar and wind. But densely populated coastlines often do not have the space needed for large solar or wind farms. That is why developers and scientists are looking to offshore wind ...