Iberdrola has completed the first phase of construction on its 500 MW Saint-Brieuc offshore wind farm in France. In the first phase, the company installed 65 per cent of the facility’s piles and 40 per cent of its offshore wind platforms.
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Boralex has finalised the acquisition of a 50 per cent stake in five functioning wind farms totaling 894 MW in the US from EDF Renewables. These projects include the 50 MW Milo and 250 MW Roosevelt developments in New Mexico, as well as the 200 MW Hereford, 200 MW Longhorn, and 194 MW Spinning Spur projects in Texas. Each location was put into service between 2014 and 2016, and all of them feature Vestas turbines, with Hereford also comprising machines from GE Renewable Energy.
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Neoen SA, a French renewables company, has signed a 15-year power purchase agreement (PPA) for a 215-MW component of its 330-MW Mount Hopeful wind farm in Australia’s central Queensland.
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ACWA Power, a Saudi developer, has signed PPAs and investment agreements with the government of the Republic of Uzbekistan to build the 1500 MW Kungrad wind farm in Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan. The wind farm, which was previously known as the Karakalpakstan Wind IPP, is anticipated to include three 500 MW wind power projects owned by three subsidiaries.
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Enefit Green intends to invest €450 million over the following two years in the construction of wind farms in Estonia and Lithuania. The company proposes to construct the 80 MW Kelme wind farm in Lithuania and the 255 MW Sopi-Tootsi wind farm in Estonia.
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The UK government has increased its offshore wind capacity ambitions from 11 gigawatts (GW) of current total installed capacity to 50 GW to be installed over the next eight years. The offshore wind industry shares critical supply chains with the offshore oil and gas sector. Both rely on a limited pool of available ports, vessels and personnel. Stimulating both sectors at the same time will spur competition over scarce resources, driving up costs—which will affect the lower-margin offshore wind sector more severely than the oil and gas sector.
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Palisade Investment Partners and Aware Super Pty Ltd., as trustees of Aware Super, have agreed to acquire a 49 per cent stake in the 528 MW Stockyard Hill Wind Farm from Goldwind in Australia. The wind farm, which has 149 Goldwind turbines, was completed in September 2022.
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Vattenfall, a Swedish energy company, and Metsähallitus, a Finnish state enterprise, have formed a joint venture to build a 1.3 GW offshore wind farm in Finland. The land and water areas of the Finnish state are managed by Metsähallitus. The offshore wind farm, which will be situated in Korsnäs off the west coast of Finland, will have the ability to produce 5 TWh of clean energy annually.
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Octopus Energy Group, based in the UK, has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Shell Energy Europe to purchase 2.4 TWh of wind energy per year from the Dogger Bank offshore wind farm. In accordance with the agreed-upon agreements, Octopus Energy will receive enough renewable energy from the 3.6 GW Dogger Bank project to power 800,000 of its client houses. Shell Energy Europe has a deal in place to offtake 20 per cent of the energy generated by Dogger Bank.
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Ecowende, a joint venture between Shell and Eneco, has won a bid to develop a 760 MW offshore wind facility at Hollandse Kust (west) VI in the Netherlands. The offshore wind farm, which is around 53 km from the Dutch coast, is slated to start operating in 2026. Once operational, it will generate enough clean energy to reduce carbon emissions by about 3 per cent of current electricity demand in the Netherlands.
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Aker Solutions has joined forces with Mainstream Renewable Power, Ocean Winds, and Statkraft for the upcoming Utsira Nord floating wind project in Norway. The companies will collaborate to develop economical, sustainable technology for the project, as per the terms of the agreement.
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Vestas has been awarded a contract to supply turbines for the Siikajoki wind project in North Ostrobothnia, Finland. For the Siikajoki project, which is situated about 50 km from Oulu, the company will supply, install, and commission 38 V162-6.2 MW wind turbines.
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Ørsted, a Danish energy company, has partnered with the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and the Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST) to promote Vietnam’s offshore wind industry. The partners intend to improve talent development and technical research for offshore wind in the area.
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TotalEnergies has inked agreements to build a 1 GW wind farm in Kazakhstan alongside Samruk-Kazyna and KazMunayGas. The Mirny project, which is reportedly the largest wind energy project ever built in Kazakhstan, will be developed by the company’s affiliate Total Eren.
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Eolus, a Nordic wind power company, and Simply Blue Group, an Irish firm, have agreed to partner on the development of four commercial-scale offshore wind parks in the Baltic Sea. The remaining facilities will be situated offshore of Finland, while two of the projects will be developed in Sweden.
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OX2, a Swedish company that develops renewable energy projects, has sold Helen and Bank of Land’s Wind Power Fund the Niinimäki wind farm in Finland. The Niinimäki wind farm will have a total installed capacity of 145 MW and 22 turbines.
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Acciona Energía, a subsidiary of the Spanish infrastructure company Acciona, has announced plans to invest A$2 billion to build a wind farm in Queensland, Australia.
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Enel Green Power Chile has begun working on La Cabaña, a 105.6 MW wind farm with a 34.3 MW battery energy storage system (BESS). The project, which will take about $190 million to complete, will be constructed in the Angol municipality’s Araucana Region.
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Ocean Winds has teamed with Bord na Móna, an Irish company, to construct offshore wind projects in Ireland. In accordance with the long-term collaboration, the two companies intend to jointly own, identify, and develop offshore opportunities along the Irish coast.
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IberBlue Wind, a Spanish-Irish renewable energy company, has announced plans to build a 990 MW floating wind farm off the coast of Andalusia, Spain. The 310 km sq Nao Victoria wind farm will be built in the Alboran Sea, off the coasts of Cadiz and Malaga. The Nao Victoria wind farm, which will comprise 55 floating offshore wind turbines, will have an installed capacity of 990 MW and be able to power hundreds of thousands of households.
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