Lhyfe, a French green hydrogen developer, has finalised a corporate power purchase agreement (PPA) with VSB Energies Nouvelles concerning a wind farm in France that will produce electricity for electrolytic hydrogen production. Lhyfe Bretagne, which is a 5 MW green and renewable hydrogen production site for Brittany, is located in Buléon.
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Bute Energy, a Welsh renewable energy company, has unveiled plans to build Llyn Lort Energy Park, a 165 MW wind farm to be located in Powys County, Wales. The requirements of approximately 144,000 households will be met by the power generated by the wind farm.
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Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN), Indonesia’s state-owned utility, is looking to add 32 GW of renewable energy and invest in a transmission system that can connect to renewable energy. Reportedly, this move is part of the company’s plan to decrease its dependency on coal and accelerate the adoption of renewables to generate the country’s power output.
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RWE, a German utility company, has started offshore construction at its 1 GW Sofia offshore wind project on Dogger Bank in the central North Sea, 195 km off the north-east coast of the UK. Prysmian, which is the project’s cable contractor is using its vessel Leonardo da Vinci to lay the first section of high voltage direct current export cable to send the power generated.
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Boskalis, a Dutch dredging and offshore contractor has won two big contracts for the transportation and installation of the export and array cables for the 1.5 GW Baltica 2 offshore wind farm in the Polish section of the Baltic Sea. Polish utility PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna SA and Denmark’s Ørsted A/S gave two deals to the company. Reportedly, the order is valued at over $ 322.5 million.
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The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has approved a loan of $39 million to China Power International Holding (CPIH) to support the construction of a 100 MW wind farm to be built in Kazakhstan. The Shokpar wind farm, which is located in the Sarysu district in the Zhambyl region of the country, is an extension of the Zhanatas wind farm.
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ACCIONA Energía, a Spanish renewables developer, has obtained a 280 MW Forty Mile wind farm in Bow Island, Forty Mile County, Alberta, Canada, from Renewable Energy Systems (RES) Canada. On behalf of ACCIONA Energa, RES will continue to work on the project as the contractor for building the remaining portions of the plant. The operation is anticipated to begin in early 2025.
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Statkraft, a Norwegian renewable energy generator, has bought a wind farm portfolio from Breeze Two Energy, which consists of 39 wind farms with a total power-generating capacity of 337 MW, for $443 million. The acquisition broadens Statkraft’s growing portfolio of wind farms, which now includes 35 farms in Germany and four in France. There are 165 turbines with a combined capacity of 310 MW in the German portfolio.
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RWE and Stanwell have teamed up to construct two onshore wind farms with a total capacity of 1.8 GW in Queensland Australia. Stanwell will look into energy offtakes and probable equity investment in RWE’s 1.1 GW Theodore wind farm which is under construction near the town of Biloela. A second wind project with 720 MW of capacity is at an initial stage of construction in the southern part of the state.
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North Carolina is making significant strides in the clean energy sector, with wind and solar providing nearly 10% of the state’s electricity. The state’s clean energy capacity, currently at 6,433 MW, is set to grow significantly by 2030 and is powered in part by over $15 billion in investments. And the sector – which currently employs nearly 10,000 North Carolinians – is poised for further expansion.
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Sembcorp Industries Ltd has announced that it is exploring investing through a wholly-owned subsidiary in the development of offshore wind projects in Vietnam with the goal of exporting electricity to Singapore. As per the Singapore-based energy and urban development company, Sembcorp Utilities Pte Ltd and Petrovietnam Technical Services Corporation, a part of the Vietnam Oil and Gas Group.
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European Energy, a Danish renewable energy company, is aiming to set up a 65 MW solar project in the municipality of Anyksciai, Lithuania. The new facility is anticipated to go into operation in fourth quarter, 2023. The project will cover more than 120 acres, with more than 140,000 solar panels, and produce 90,000 MWh yearly. It is anticipated that the project will meet the power requirements of nearly 24,000 homes.
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Amprion, a German transmission system operator, has started planning the Windader West energy corridor, which would bring up to 8 GW of power from offshore wind farms in the North Sea to North Rhine-Westphalia. It will consist of four offshore grid connections, each of 2 GW: NOR-15-1, NOR-17-1, NOR-19-1, and NOR-21-1.
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Nordex, a German wind turbine manufacturer, has received an order to supply 189 MW turbines for three wind projects from Rönesans Enerji. A ten-year period service agreement is entailed in the contract. The N163/6.X turbines from Nordex will be used for the projects, which were chosen in the YEKA RES-3 tender. On the behalf of Rönesans Enerji, Heitkamp Industrial Solutions is the engineering, procurement, and construction contractor.
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Equinor, the Norwegian oil and gas company, recently inaugurated the 88 MW Hywind Tampen floating offshore wind farm in the Norwegian North Sea. The electricity produced will be used to power Equinor’s oil and gas fields. The wind farm will help the company cut down its oil and gas prices. It is located 140 km from the coast in water depths ranging from 260 to 300 metres and comprises 11 turbines.
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The report emphasises the positive economic effects of OSW on domestic shipbuilding and supply chain, with more than 30 new vessels currently either ordered or under construction to bolster the industry’s operations. It offers critical insights into upcoming OSW projects and the locations of announced manufacturing facilities among other things.
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Snowy Hydro Limited, an Australia-based power producer and retailer, has signed a power purchase agreement with TagEnergy, an energy storage developer, for a 756 MW wind farm project located in Victoria. The agreement is the first PPA for the project of Golden Plains’ 1.3 GW wind farm. The project is intended to establish the Commonwealth’s largest wind turbine complex.
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IRG Acquisition Holdings (IRGAH), a partnership between CDPQ, American power generation company Invenergy, and funds managed by Blackstone Infrastructure Partners has announced that it has acquired American Electric Power’s (AEP) unregulated renewables portfolio for $1.5 billion. This comprehensive deal encompasses 14 wind and solar projects, totaling a capacity of 1200 MW and 165 MW, respectively.
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The Canadian government has unveiled a set of clean electricity regulations (CER) to accelerate the switch to renewable energy and help achieve the country’s goal of reaching net-zero by the year 2035 by reducing emissions. The country is already producing 84 per cent of its electricity by utilising renewable sources such as wind, hydropower, and nuclear power.
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RWE Clean Energy, Vattenfall, and Waterkant Energy has emerged as winners of the offshore wind tenders in an auction conducted by Bundesnetzagentur, a German federal network agency. As per the notification, the projects are worth $862.2 million and comprises four wind farms aggregating 1.8 GW in the North Sea of Germany. The federal maritime and hydrographic agency, Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie (BSH).
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