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Greenalia Developing Four Spanish Floating Offshore Wind Projects

Greenalia, an independent power producer (IPP), has started developing four new floating offshore wind projects by filing project and environmental planning applications - in...

INEOS Concludes Wind Power Purchase Contract with ENGIE

INEOS, a global manufacturer of petrochemicals, specialty chemicals and oil products, has concluded the largest-ever purchase contract of wind energy for heavy industry in...

GE Renewable Energy Finalizes Supply Contracts with Dogger Bank Wind Farm

GE Renewable Energy has finalized supply contracts with Dogger Bank Wind Farm, a 50:50 joint venture between SSE Renewables and Equinor, for the first...

Vattenfall, Modvion Collaborate on Wooden Wind Towers

Vattenfall and Modvion, a company that develops designs made of laminated wood for large-scale applications, have entered into a collaboration to use wooden towers...

DNG VL Incorporates WattTime’s Emissions Intelligence Software

DNV GL and WattTime have entered into a strategic partnership to incorporate WattTime’s emissions intelligence into DNV GL’s energy management and digital services expertise...

Iberdrola Sets Sights on Japanese Offshore Wind Industry

Iberdrola, a Spanish multinational electric utility company, says it is targeting the Japanese market as a new platform for growth in renewable energy, specifically...

Fraunhofer IWES Opens Wind Turbine Testing Facility

In the first phase of a planned expansion, the Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems (IWES) says it planning to put a new test...

Vermilion Wind Commences Development in Illinois

Vermilion Wind, a 255 MW, 15,000-acre wind project - projected to be the largest in East Central Illinois - has commenced its development phase...

Henkel Signs VPPA for New Texas Wind Farm

Henkel, a German chemical and consumer goods company, has signed a large-scale virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA) for new wind power in Bee County,...

Nordex Group Installs the First N149/5.X Turbine

Nordex Group has installed the first N149/5.X turbine, at the Genshagener Heide wind farm near Potsdam, Germany.  In spring 2019, the Nordex Group opened the...

Orsted Names Nipper Next CEO

Ørsted’s board of directors has appointed Mads Nipper group president and CEO as of Jan. 1, 2021. Nipper is currently group president and CEO...

Rapid Development of Clean Energy Needed to Meet Global Climate Goals

A major effort to develop and deploy clean energy technologies worldwide is urgently needed to meet international energy and climate goals, particularly in order...

NJBPU, NJEDA Approve Two MOUs for Offshore Wind, Clean Energy Projects

The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) and the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU) have approved two memoranda of understanding (MOUs) that...

DOE Releases RFP for the 2022 Collegiate Wind Competition

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory has released a request for proposals for student teams interested in competing in the...

Shanghai Electric Group Hosts the 5th Global Offshore Wind Summit

Shanghai Electric Group, a producer of power generation equipment and related infrastructure hosted the 5th Global Offshore Wind Summit in Jinan, Shandong Province, China,...

DTE Energy Updates its MIGreenPower Renewables Plan

DTE Energy has updated its MIGreenPower voluntary renewables plan with the Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC).  If the MPSC approves this plan, DTE will significantly...

Korean Consortium Acquires Equity Interest in U.S. Wind Portfolio

Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co. Ltd., Alpha Asset Management, Sprott Korea Investment, Hana Financial Investment and Korea Investment & Securities, a consortium of...

Total, Macquarie Partner to Develop Floating Offshore Wind Portfolio

Total and Macquarie’s Green Investment Group (GIG) have concluded a 50/50 partnership to develop a portfolio of 5 large floating offshore wind projects in...

Wind, Solar Expected to Soar Over Coal This Decade

The 2020s will be crucial for all the participants in the power industry as the transition toward renewable energy is expected to increase, while...

First State Investments Acquires Stake in Terra-Gen

First State Investments (FSI), a global investor in infrastructure, and Energy Capital Partners (ECP), a power and renewables private equity investor, say FSI is...

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