Author: Anela Dokso

Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems (IWES) has put into operation a new test bench in Bremerhaven in the scope of the Hil-GridCoP project. This was done in cooperation with the Lord Mayor of the City of Bremerhaven, Melf Grantz, Timo Haase from the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi), and the project partners Vestas Nacelles Deutschland GmbH and Nordex Energy GmbH. In the future, the newly erected hall will see converter and generator systems for multi-megawatt wind turbines tested for their electrical grid compatibility. The Fraunhofer IWES aims to expand its testing capacities for the electrical systems…

Singapore LNG Corporation (SLNG) and Total Solar Distributed Generation (DG) have signed an agreement for solar power to be implemented at the Singapore LNG Terminal on Jurong Island. Under the agreement, Total Solar DG will finance, build and operate a 600 kilowatts peak (kWp) rooftop solar power system, which will be installed on the rooftops of several buildings at the Terminal. The installation of the solar panels is part of SLNG’s slew of initiatives under its Green Strategy, and is expected to be completed by Q4 2020. This rooftop solar power system will generate around 800 megawatt hours (MWh) of…

Ten companies from the Norfolk and Suffolk region have secured a place in the first intake of the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult’s industry-backed Fit 4 Offshore Renewables (F4OR) New Anglia Programme. Having engaged with over 100 companies across Norfolk and Suffolk, the programme received 53 expressions of interest, with 29 companies shortlisted and 10 winning companies selected. Jointly funded by the New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership, the delivery of F4OR New Anglia was a top priority as part of the Clean Growth Covid-19 Recovery Plan, offering 10 places for innovators in the region, aiming to support the booming local…

French tidal energy developer HydroQuest is joining the Ocean Energy Europe board of directors as a lead partner. HydroQuest will be represented by Guillaume Gréau, head of Business Development, who has 20 years of experience in shipbuilding and tidal energy. The 1MW OceanQuest tidal turbine recently celebrated its one-year anniversary of continuous operation at the Paimpol-Bréhat site in Normandy, proving its reliability and efficacity. The new generation of HydroQuest tidal turbines will be one of the most powerful available, with a nominal power of 2.5MW. “The tidal energy sector is regaining momentum in France, so it is timely that we…

Floating PV, a solar park built on Sibelco’s ‘Schansheide’ sand quarry on the border of the Antwerp municipalities of Mol and Dessel in Belgium, has been completed. Flemish Minister of Energy Zuhal Demir installed the last solar panel of Floating PV in Flanders. The installation consists of 17,250 solar panels and will produce 7 Gigawatt hours (GWh) per year. This amount of electricity corresponds to the annual consumption of 2,000 households. Sibelco will use the maximum amount of electricity at its local operations to produce a high-quality silica sand. The Limburg Investment Company LRM, Group Machiels, Luminus and Sibelco are…

Voltalia has signed a longterm power sale contract with Copel, a Brazilian utilities company. The new 260-megawatt solar plant will be located in Voltalia’s Brazilian cluster of Serra Branca in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, the world’s largest wind-and-solar site. “Thanks to this contract Voltalia reaches 1.9 gigawatts of projects developed successfully in our Serra Branca cluster. This new success highlights the quality of our wind-and-solar cluster which attracts local utilities as well as international companies who want to source clean energy. With 0.5 gigawatt of further potential in Serra Branca and the development of our new 1-gigawatt…

EIT InnoEnergy, the world’s largest sustainable energy engine headquartered in Europe, has selected Boston as the launchpad for its expansion into another primary market, the US. The new office will help entrepreneurs develop their innovations and reduce time to market by providing direct access to 500+ industrial partners in EIT InnoEnergy’s ecosystem. The transatlantic expansion will be mutually beneficial to start-ups and partners on both sides of the ocean, offering access to new markets and resources including investors, educators, and talent. By enhancing its ecosystem in this way, EIT InnoEnergy will further dismantle barriers to innovation spurring a wave of…

Henkel has signed a large-scale virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA) relating to a new wind farm in Bee County, Texas. The agreed capacity equals 100 percent of the electricity demand of Henkel’s operations in the US, which comprise more than 30 production sites across the country. The long-term commitment contributes to increasing the share of renewable energy in the grid and supports Henkel to reach its climate protection targets, which were approved by the “Science Based Targets initiative” earlier this year. In order to reach its goal to source 100 percent renewable electricity for its production sites by 2030, Henkel…

Avangrid Renewables, a subsidiary of AVANGRID, developer of the Kitty Hawk offshore wind project, has opened a new Virginia field office to support project development and help ignite a new industry off the coast of Virginia and North Carolina. Kitty Hawk offshore wind is a proposed offshore wind energy project to be built approximately 27 miles from the Outer Banks in the Kitty Hawk Wind Energy Area (WEA), designated by the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM). The commercial lease for the 122,405-acre WEA was awarded to Avangrid Renewables by BOEM in 2017. Since then, the company has been…

Longitude, part of LOC Group, has completed a range of environmental engineering analyses, crucial to supporting the planning for upcoming export cable installation operations for the St Nazaire offshore wind farm, in France. Under the agreement, provided by Prysmian Group, the scope of work included analysis of vessel grounding and mooring in nearshore locations, landfall cable pull-in analysis, to ensure cable integrity, export cable free lay from the nearshore to the offshore wind farm, survival analysis for vessel operations in bad weather and seabed evaluation to ensure the cable remains stable prior to being buried. Longitude’s work in metocean engineering…