Q-Energy, a Spanish renewable investor, has acquired 16 wind parks in Germany from MEAG. The portfolio consists of 56 turbines in the northern part of Germany with an installed capacity of 109 MW.
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Invenergy and BW Offshore have entered into a joint venture to develop up to 5.4 GW of offshore wind in Scotland. This is a part of the first ScotWind leasing round. The partnership will entail the development of both floating and fixed foundation offshore wind projects off the Northeast Coast of Scotland.
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Denmark’s Vestas Wind System A/S has won a 396 MW contract for Rye Park Wind Farm in New South Wales, Australia. The deal was placed by project owner Tilt Renewables. Vestas will supply and install 66 of its V162-6.2 MW wind turbines for the project. Delivery of the wind turbines is expected to occur in the third quarter of 2022, with commissioning to commence in the second quarter of 2023.
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AES Andes, a south American power company, has begun the permitting process for a 258 MW wind farm in Bio Bio, Chile. The Rinconada wind farm is planned to have 43 turbines, each with a capacity of 6 MW, as well as the necessary transmission infrastructure.
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National Grid, the British transmission system operator, is proposing to launch a 1.8 GW high voltage direct current for offshore wind projects. The new power cable will link Norway and the UK. The “continental link” may connect 3.6 GW of offshore wind projects and deliver electricity for 1.8 million households in the UK.
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Taaleri Energia has placed a 126 MW order with Vestas for the Isoneva project in Finland, bringing the total number of solid orders for the EnVentus platform in Finland to over 1.8 GW. The wind farm is located in the municipality of Siikajoki in northwestern Finland. While announcing the investment in the Isoneva and Murtotuuli projects in Finlan, Taaleri confirmed that the construction works on the wind farm began in April 2021.
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In collaboration with Subsea 7 SA, Simply Blue Energy is building the 200 MW Salamander floating wind project off the coast of Scotland. They announced a collaboration that will use hydrogen technology in the project. Salamander has signed a memorandum of understanding with ERM to deploy the ERM Dolphyn hydrogen technology, which combines electrolysis, desalination, and hydrogen generation on a floating wind platform, with the hydrogen being piped onshore.
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BP has struck an exclusive consultancy deal with Quaybridge, a UK-based renewables consultancy with experience in offshore wind, as part of its efforts to expand its renewables business. The two will collaborate to advance BP’s worldwide offshore wind portfolio as part of its zero-carbon growth goal.
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PNE, a German wind farm developer, announced that it has sold the rights to three wind farm projects in Romania to an unnamed global renewable energy business for an undisclosed amount. PNE stated in a news release that wind turbines with nominal outputs of up to 220 MW might be installed as part of the three projects.
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The prototype of the TetraSpar floating wind turbine, created by Stiesdal Offshore Technologies (SOT) and supported by Shell, RWE, and TEPCO, is on its way to its test location off the coast of Norway. The platform will then be linked up to the pre-installed mooring system by Bourbon Subsea Services once it arrives at its allocated place at the Metcentre site.
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Siemens Gamesa has earned a second rotor-nacelle assembly (RNA) IEC type certificate covering tolerance to extreme wind conditions for its 11 MW model. Last year, its 8 MW offshore wind turbine was certified as typhoon-proof. Issued by TÜV NORD, the certification confirms that the two Siemens Gamesa machines can endure Typhoon- or T-class wind rates of up to 57 metres per second for 10 minutes and three-second gusts of up to 79.8 metres per second.
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Enel Green Power has announced the launch of commercial operations of its 716 MW Lagoa dos Ventos wind farm in Brazil. The project was developed at an estimated investment of BRL 3 billion ($592 million) by the company’s subsidiary, Enel Green Power Brasil Participacoes Ltd. The plant is located in Brazil’s north-eastern state of Piaui and is equipped with 230 turbines which are expected to generate more than 3.3 TWh of electricity annually.
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BHE Renewables announced it has completed the acquisition of the 54 MW Independence wind energy project from RPM Access LLC. Located near Ryan, Iowa, the project consists 18 GE 2.8 MW wind turbines and two GE 2.3 MW wind turbines and will be completed in the fourth quarter 2021. The project will serve Central Iowa Power Cooperative under a 20-year power purchase agreement.
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The article forecasts renewables growth in the Irish power sector. It specifies new and emerging technologies that will become mainstream. It gauges the attractiveness of the market for large developers and the scope of investments in the market.
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Ørsted has entered into an agreement with Brookfield Renewable to acquire a 100% equity interest in its existing Ireland and UK onshore wind business, Brookfield Renewable Ireland (BRI). With this transaction, Ørsted will enter the European onshore wind market. The transaction is expected to close by Q2 2021 and BRI’s existing management team will continue to run the business which will be integrated into Ørsted’s Onshore business unit over time.
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According to publicly available BNEF data, at the end of 2019, the cumulative PPA capacity contracted from renewable energy sources (excluding green tariffs) was approximately 27.2 GW, with higher penetration of wind energy in comparison to solar. The 11.2 GW of additional PPAs signed in 2019 alone represents more than 40 percent of the total corporate-contracted capacity since 2009.
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The US government has unveiled a plan to install wind farms at sea to provide power to more than 10 million homes by 2030 and thus contribute to efforts against climate change. The plan aims to produce 30 GW of wind power in the country by 2021, according to an official statement. The goal will require investments estimated at more than $12 billion a year along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
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Developed by Genneia, the Chubut Norte II Wind Farm has now been launched. The wind farm has been set up at an investment of $39 million. With an installed power capacity of 26.28 MW, the wind power plant will generate 120 GWh of electricity per year.
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ReNew Power has commissioned a 300 MW wind power plant in Gujarat, India. The project was previously awarded to ReNew’s operating subsidiary ReNew Wind Energy (AP2) Private Limited in a competitive e-reverse auction conducted by Solar Energy Corporation of India Limited. The project is located in Gujarat’s Kutch District and will provide clean energy to the Indian states of Haryana and Odisha at a tariff of Rs 2.44 per kWh.
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According to Global Wind Energy Council’s (GWEC’s) “Global Wind Report 2021”, 2020 saw global new wind power installations surpass 90 GW, a 53% growth compared to 2019, bringing total installed capacity to 743 GW, a growth of 14% compared to last year. Going forward, offshore wind and wind-solar hybrids have the highest potential to make green hydrogen commercial.
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