Hitachi Energy and Petrofac have joined forces to provide grid integration and associated infrastructure services for the offshore wind sector. The two companies will provide services to the market, with an emphasis on high-voltage direct current (HVDC) and high-voltage alternating current (HVAC) solutions.
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RWE, a German energy company, has signed an agreement with Siemens Gamesa to deliver offshore wind turbines for its FEW Baltic II offshore wind project in Poland. Siemens Gamesa will deliver 25 SG 14-236 DD wind turbines for the 350 MW project. A service agreement is also included with the order. Construction on the site is expected to start as early as 2024, depending on the final investment decision.
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TenneT, the Dutch transmission system operator, intends to develop a $31.5 billion tender plan and contract partners for the construction of land and sea connections for 40 GW of offshore wind capacity in the German and Dutch North Sea. TenneT will be responsible for at least two-thirds of this target, connecting 20 GW of capacity in each of the German and Dutch North Seas.
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Mitsubishi Power, a Japanese power company, will collaborate with renewable energy developer ION Renewables to construct four battery energy storage system (BESS) projects in Ireland. Ion Renewables has signed an exclusive agreement with Mitsubishi Power Americas for the four projects, which will use Mitsubishi’s Emerald storage solutions and have a combined capacity of 185.5MW or 371MWh.
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Siemens Gamesa, a Spanish energy company, has been awarded a contract to supply 60 wind turbine units for the 882 MW Moray West offshore wind power project in Scotland. According to the agreement, the company will deliver its SG 14-222 DD offshore wind turbines, each having a capacity of 14.7MW. Each SG 14-222 DD turbine will have a 222 metre rotor diameter and use Siemens Gamesa’s 108 metre-long IntegralBlades.
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In order to collaboratively develop offshore wind projects in Greece, Parkwind, a green energy company, located in Belgium, has teamed up with Intrakat, a Greek construction company. The collaboration is a component of Parkwind’s bigger international growth strategy. The agreement will combine Intrakat’s local infrastructure expertise and Parkwind’s expertise in offshore wind development.
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EDF Renewables UK, the UK branch of the French energy firm, has announced that two of its solar projects have started the site preparation and construction phases. These projects, Porth Wen facility in Anglesey and the Burwell project in southeast Cambridgeshire, have a combined capacity of about 100 MW. These projects are expected to be online by the fourth quarter of 2022.
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Vattenfall, a Swedish energy company, has agreed to purchase an 85 per cent stake in two offshore wind farms in Gothenburg, Sweden, from Zephyr, a wind power company. The Vidar and Poseidon wind facilities will be constructed between 25 and 27 km north of Gothenburg, on the Swedish west coast.
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Equinor has begun a study with partners in the Troll and Oseberg fields to determine the feasibility of a 1 GW floating offshore wind farm in Norway. TotalEnergies, Shell, and ConocoPhillips, Equinor’s partners, plan to create the Trollvind floating offshore plant in the Troll area, which is located about 65 km west of Bergen.
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Voltalia, an international renewable energy company, has announced the completion of a new solar power facility near Alleins, France. The 8.16 megawatt Carrière des Plaines solar power plant is located in the municipality of Alleins in the Bouches-du-Rhône department, on the site of a former quarry.
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Renewable Power Capital (RPC), a UK-based energy investment firm, has signed a grid connection agreement with E.ON Energy Distribution for four wind farms in Sweden’s Sollefte and Kramfors municipalities. The agreement would deliver up to 561 MW of clean energy to regional and national systems from four wind facilities.
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Nordex Group, a German wind turbine manufacturer, has secured a 105 MW turbine supply order for the Krivaca wind farm in Serbia. The Krivaca wind project is located in the municipalities of Golubac, Kucevo, and Veliko Gradiste in eastern Serbia. It will have the capacity to generate 310 GWh of clean energy per year, which is approximately 1 per cent of the country’s total power consumption.
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Iberdrola, a Spanish energy company, has announced the start of operations at its 33.6 MW Mikronoros wind farm in Greece. The wind project, which is located in Rhodopes, Thrace, consists eight V150 4.2 MW wind turbines, each with a hub height of 105 metres and a rotor diameter of 150 metres. The wind power project will provide renewable power to over 34,000 homes.
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Wallenstam, a Swedish property company, has announced the sale of three wind farms in Sweden to Jämtkraft, a Swedish energy company, for an undisclosed sum. Wallenstam stated that the sale is part of its strategy to restructure its wind energy portfolio.
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Engie has partnered with Google to build an artificial intelligence (AI)-based wind energy solution. Under the agreement, Engie and Google Cloud’s AI Services and Industry Solutions (AIIS) will collaborate to develop a solution that can predict the price and quantity of wind power to be sold in the market.
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RWE, a German energy company, has agreed to acquire the 1.4 GW Magnum gas-fired power plant in the Netherlands from Vattenfall for $534 million. Magnum has been in operation since 2013 at Eemshaven, in the Dutch province of Groningen. Reportedly, the power plant is ‘hydrogen-ready,’ which means it can run on hydrogen partially or completely.
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Siemens Gamesa has announced that it will supply the Serbian state utility EPS with a 66 MW wind power project. Siemens Gamesa will supply 20 SG 3.3-132 turbines to the Kostolac wind project in Serbia, which will be the company’s first in the country. They will be fully installed in 2024. These turbines have a rated power of up to 3.65 MW.
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Kona Energy, a clean energy firm based in the UK, has received planning permission for a 200 MW battery storage project in Heysham, Lancashire. The project site is near the Walney offshore wind farm, which is one of six offshore wind farms. Once completed, Kona Energy claims that the project will be one of Europe’s largest battery storage facilities.
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Enel Green Power España (EGPE), a subsidiary of Endesa, has connected its 180 MW Tico Wind farm in Spain to the country’s energy grid. The Tico Wind project, which is in Villar de los Navarros, Zaragoza, entails a $193 million investment. It can generate 471 GWh of green electricity per year and displace 192,200 tonnes of carbon emissions a year.
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Siemens Energy has launched a 4.05 billion euro bid for a minority stake in Siemens Gamesa. By doing this Siemens Energy hopes to resolve a complicated ownership structure that has weighed on its shares. The bid of 18.05 euros per share represents a 27.7 per cent premium over Siemens Gamesa’s last unaffected closing share price of 14.13 euros on May 17, 2022, and a 7.8 per cent premium over the closing price of May 20, 2022.
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