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July 12 (Financial Eye) – Finnish technology group Wartsila Corp (HEL:WRT1V) on Monday said it is providing 500 MW/2 GWh of energy storage systems to US renewables developer Clearway Energy Group across five sites in Hawaii and California, which make up one of the world’s largest solar-plus-storage project portfolios. Wartsila started booking the contracts in…
May 20 (Financial Eye) – Financial Eye covered MA stories about PNE, Chevron, Siemens Gamesa, KKR and others in the past week. Below is the full list: — Slovakian geothermal demo gains pace with new investor on board – report Czech power and gas distributor Energeticky a Prumyslovy Holding (EPH) has become a co-owner in…
May 17 (Renewables Now) – Power company Iberdrola Australia said today that it has signed an agreement to supply 100% renewable electricity to Australian retailer Woolworths Group Ltd (ASX:WOW). The agreement will see the supply flow to all of Woolworths Group’s operations in South Australia until December 31, 2030. This encompasses almost 70 supermarkets, 17…
May 18 (Renewables Now) – The US installed 28.5 GW of new wind, utility solar and battery storage power capacity in 2021, flat on 2020 as headwinds from the pandemic, supply chain issues and policy uncertainty deterred clean power growth, according to data from the American Clean Power Association (ACP). The industry group said on…
May 27 (Financial Eye) – The US Department of the Interior on Thursday proposed a lease sale offshore California that could lead to the installation of more than 4.5 GW of offshore wind capacity. The proposed lease sale, the first on America’s west coast, includes three areas off central California and two areas off northern…
May 16 (Renewables Now) – Swedish utility Vattenfall AB announced on Monday that it will inaugurate its 353-MW Blakliden Fabodberget wind farm in northern Sweden on May 23 to start the new phase of the project that took four years to build. Now ready for operation, Blakliden Fabodberget becomes the largest land-based wind farm in…
May 16 (Renewables Now) – Danish wind turbine maker Vestas Wind Systems A/S (CPH:VWS) on Monday unveiled a new product, the V163-4.5 MW, adding a new solution for medium and low wind conditions and expanding the offering within the 4-MW turbine platform. The new 4.5-MW machine has 80.1-metre (263 ft) blades and a large rotor-size-to-rating…
May 20 (Financial Eye) – A green ammonia project led by London-based electrolyser developer Supercritical Solutions Ltd has secured close to GBP 147,000 (USD 174,600/EUR 165,100) in government funding in the UK’s Low Carbon Hydrogen Supply 2 competition. Supercritical partnered with chemical engineering company Proton Ventures and electric utility ScottishPower, part of Spanish group Iberdrola…
May 18 (Renewables Now) – Swedish wind project developer Eolus Vind AB (STO:EOLU-B) saw its net loss widen to SEK 138 million (USD 13.9m/EUR 13.2m) in the first quarter of 2022, regardless of the 78.5% increase in revenues. The loss compares with a deficit of SEK 17 million recorded in the same period of the…
May 17 (Renewables Now) – Electrolyser provider Thyssenkrupp Nucera on Monday said it has opened an office in Perth, Australia as it eyes growth in Australia’s emerging green hydrogen sector. The company, which is a joint business of German industrial conglomerate Thyssenkrupp AG (ETR:TKA) with Italy’s Industrie De Nora SpA and offers 20-MW standard electrolyser…