Author: Anela Dokso

wpd has concluded an offsite corporate PPA with Orange Polska, a wholly-owned subsidiary of France’s telecommunications group Orange, who will take delivery of the green electricity generated from the two wind farm projects ‘Jarocin Wschod’ and ‘Krotoszyn’. Both wind farms will be built in the Wielkopolskie Voivodeship, the country’s second largest province in central Poland. The site for the Jarocin Wschod wind farm is located about 11 km southeast of the city of Jarocin. The wind farm will consist of two GE 2.5-120 turbines with a hub height of 120 m and will have an installed capacity of five MW.…

Turbine for the 840MW power station of the SSE’s Keadby 2 project has arrived at the construction site in North Lincolnshire, following a two-week journey from Berlin.  The first-of-a-kind Siemens Energy turbine traveled by sea and through the Humber Estuary, before docking at the Keadby Railway Wharf and travelling the short distance to the construction site. Keadby 2 is expected to become the cleanest and most efficient gas-fired power station in Europe when completed in 2022, with the capacity to power around 840,000 homes. The power station will achieve 63% efficiency, enabling the UK to move away from older, more…

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) will provide up to $30 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development projects under a funding opportunity announcement (FOA) for small-scale solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) systems and hybrid energy systems. This FOA seeks to develop advanced technologies that can progress the present state of small-scale solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) hybrid systems using solid oxide electrolyzer cell (SOEC) technologies to a point of commercial readiness for hydrogen production and power generation. It also seeks validation of SOFC using syngas from gasification facilities. “The Department of Energy plays…

The foundation for the converter station in Emden/East, part of the TenneT’s DolWin6 grid connection project, has been laid. The laying of the time capsule with coins marked the start of the construction, with only a couple of people attending, due to restrictions imposed by Covid-19 pandemic. DolWin6 is a 900 megawatt high voltage direct current connection. The wind power produced offshore will be fed as three-phase current to a converter platform, where it will be converted into direct current and transported a total of 90 kilometres to the converter station in Emden. Here the electricity will be converted back into…

Austria is committed to reaching carbon neutrality by 2040 at the latest – 10 years earlier than the goal set by the European Union. To meet this deadline, the Austrian government will need to step up decarbonization efforts across all parts of its energy sector, the International Energy Agency said in its in-depth review of the country’s energy policies. Austria’s main challenge in its transition to a cleaner energy future – a challenge shared by many IEA countries – is the decarbonization of the heating and transport sectors. Austria’s CO2 emissions have grown since 2014, largely driven by an increase in…

MARLIN STAR project, set to revolutionize local renewable energy generation, storage and use, has been launched. The £1.4 million project is led by Plymouth-based technology developer Frontier Technical. The MARLIN STAR, funded by the Energy Catalyst programme, will progress the development and commercialization of an innovative modular, floating renewable energy platform that will enable coastal community access to stored and transferable clean energy. The platform will be capable of hosting a wind turbine with capacity up to 2MW, as well as onboard energy storage and transfer capabilities. Its controllable float modules fit into standard ISO shipping containers and assembly completed…

SSE has published its greenprint for a cleaner, more resilient recovery from the economic impact of coronavirus. SSE submitted a five-point action plan to the UK Government to meet the twin objectives of helping the economy rebound whilst taking climate action to meet net zero targets. The report recommends the Government should green light billions of pounds of private investment in low carbon infrastructure, committing to a net zero power sector by 2040 and help get the UK on track to meet the climate action commitments. Targeting 75GW of offshore wind projects, five carbon capture and storage, plus hydrogen power…

The Covid-19 pandemic has set in motion the largest drop in global energy investment in history, with spending expected to plunge in every major sector this year – from fossil fuels to renewables and efficiency – the International Energy Agency has shown in a new report. The unparalleled decline is staggering in both its scale and swiftness, with serious potential implications for energy security and clean energy transitions. At the start of 2020, global energy investment was on track for growth of around 2%, which would have been the largest annual rise in spending in six years. But after the…

Roll Group is supporting Jan de Nul with the provision of its BigRoll vessels for the offshore wind farm project located off the coast of Virginia Beach. With the operational kick-off of the construction of the offshore wind farm, Jan De Nul formally entered the American offshore renewables market for the first time. The wind farm will be located 27 miles off the coast of Virginia Beach, generating a combined total of 12MW, a cooperation between Dominion and Ørsted Wind Power North America, with Jan De Nul as subcontractor. The first foundation components for two windmills were loaded onto the BigRoll…

DEME has completed the installation of inter-array cables at Belgium’s largest offshore wind farm, SeaMade, utilizing Living Stone vessel. The work on the installation of the inter array cables started in April and was finalized on Tuesday, May 26, 2020. Living Stone operated at peak production levels, laying up to three cables per day, DEME said on its social media. The vessel laid 64 cables with a total length of 71.2 km at the wind farm site in the Belgian North Sea. “Everyone on board and onshore made exceptional efforts to ensure the project remained firmly on track, maintaining safe…