Author: Anela Dokso

Scottish Borders Council’s (SBC) planning committee has approved plans jointly submitted by Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) Offshore Wind Limited and Eyemouth Harbour Trust for an Operations and Maintenance (O&M) building for the offshore wind farm in Eyemouth. The planning permission is for a new, three storey, 1,040 square metre main building and a two storey, 538 square metre storage warehouse. The O&M building, designed by Corstorphine + Wright Architects, will house the office, warehousing and staff welfare facilities required to support the servicing of NnG, jointly owned by EDF Renewables and ESB, once the wind farm is operational. The investment…

Montrose Port Authority and SSE Renewables have finalized plans for the operations and maintenance base for Seagreen offshore wind farm, following consultation with the local community and other port users. The 1,075MW Seagreen project is located 27 kilometres off the coast of Angus. A £3 billion joint venture between SSE Renewables and Total, Seagreen will be Scotland’s single largest source of renewable energy, providing a significant contribution to Scotland’s net-zero ambition and enough clean, renewable energy to power 1.3 million homes. The wind farm will also support a £1.8 million community benefit fund which will be divided between six Community…

Canadian Solar has appointed Yan Zhuang and Dr. Huifeng Chang to the board of directors, effective September 15, 2020. Zhuang has been serving as president and chief operating officer of Canadian Solar since May 2020. He initially joined the company as an independent director in 2007 and later joined the management team in 2009 as VP of Global Sales and Marketing. Since 2009, Zhuang has been instrumental in Canadian Solar’s global expansion, serving as senior VP of Global Sales and Marketing, CCO and acting CEO at the company. Prior to joining Canadian Solar, Zhuang brought over 20 years’ experience, running…

Ailes Marines the Iberdrola company in charge of the development, construction, installation and operation of the offshore wind farm of the bay of Saint-Brieuc has awarded the joint venture Iemants, a subsidiary of Smulders, and ENGIE Solutions the contract to construct an offshore substation for the Saint Brieuc offshore wind farm. The wind farm, located 16,3 km off the French coast, is the first large scale offshore wind farm in Brittany and one of the first in France to obtain all the necessary government permits for its construction and operation. The Saint-Brieuc offshore wind farm covers a total area of 75…

Foresight Solar, a fund investing in a diversified portfolio of ground-based solar PV assets in the UK and internationally, has acquired its first solar asset in Spain. The 26.1 MW Virgen del Carmen asset, based in Huelva, in the South-West of the country, is the Fund’s first acquisition in Continental Europe and also represents Foresight Solar’s initial investment in subsidy-free solar. The acquisition will represent an investment of €20.2 million once construction is completed and will benefit from a long-term Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) entered with Shell Energy Europe Limited, a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell for the sale of electricity under…

Lightsource bp has closed on a $20 million financing package and mobilized construction on its Wildflower Solar project located in Rio Linda, about 10 miles north of Sacramento, California. All of the electricity generated by the 16.5MWdc/13MWac project, enough to power about 2,600 homes, will be purchased by the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) through a long-term power contract. SMUD will use the power purchased from Wildflower to support its Neighborhood SolarShares program that can provide solar to new housing developments through an off-site utility scale solar project. The community solar program gives developers the ability to deliver the environmental…

VoltH2 has signed a cooperation agreement in preparation of a long-term concession contract with North Sea Port for an industrial plot covering 27,950 m2 in Vlissingen. The company has started planning and developing the construction of a green hydrogen plant with storage, refueling and distribution facilities. The agreement also provides for the possible construction of a pipeline to a tanker transfer point. The plant will produce up to 3.6 million kg (3,600 tonnes) of green hydrogen annually. By integrating hydrogen storage, local filling stations can also be supplied, thus contributing to increased sustainability for North Sea Port. The design of…

Sungrow has partnered with Shanghai Electric to supply its latest 1500V 6.25 MW turnkey solution to the 900 MW fifth phase of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park in Dubai. The 900 MW fifth phase of the park is expected to be online in Q2 2021 and will power 270,000 homes, offsetting 1.18 million tons of carbon emissions annually. Based on the Independent Power Producer (IPP) model, ACWA Power in partnership with Gulf Investment Corporation (GIC) won the bid with a tariff of USD 1.6953 cents/kWh, establishing a new global benchmark for solar energy. The low off-taking price requires a…

NYK, IHI Power Systems and Nippon Kaiji Kyokai (ClassNK) have signed a joint research and development agreement to put the world’s first ammonia-fueled tugboat into practical use. With the entry into force of the Paris Agreement in 2016, global momentum for decarbonization has increased, and reducing GHG emissions has become an issue in the shipping sector. In 2018, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) set a goal of halving GHG emissions from the international shipping sector by 2050 and reaching a target of zero as early as the end of this century. Since carbon dioxide (CO2) is not emitted when ammonia…

Minesto plans to continue commissioning activities in its tidal energy project in Vestmannasund, Faroe Islands in mid-October. The company has also verified the area for the first proposed array installation of its tidal kite technology in the Faroe Islands. “We have generated valuable flight data and control system data, and we have verified the chain of electricity distribution to shore. The marine operations, with towing and installation, went as planned which is also very good.”Dr Martin Edlund, CEO of Minesto. Minesto is now planning to re-install the DG100 kite system in mid-October to start grid-connected operation with its Deep Green…