Author: Arnes Biogradlija

Nucor will buy electricity from the Western Trail onshore wind project, which is currently under construction and will be operational later this year. Nucor, a steel producer, has agreed to buy electricity from a 367 MW wind farm in Texas on a long-term basis. “Western Trail will utilise Nucor steel, demonstrating our ability to develop multilateral supply chain relationships, it’s great to partner with Nucor in their efforts to improve the environmental sustainability in the steel industry.”Vishal Kapadia, Senior Vice President and Onshore Chief Commercial Officer at Ørsted The 130-turbine Western Trail wind farm will provide long-term financial returns in…

Vestas has received the biggest EnVentus order in Germany to date, at the 39 MW Wohlsdorf initiative in Rotenburg, Lower Saxony. Vestas will provide seven V150-5.6 MW turbines for the plant, which will be situated between Bremen and Hamburg. Windpark Wohlsdorf, a special purpose company owned by Reon and CapCerta, is developing the Wohlsdorf concept. The project was won as part of the most recent onshore wind auction rounds held by the German Federal Network Agency (BNetzA). The Wohlsdorf V150 EnVentus turbines will have a tip height of 244 meters and will be serviced and operated by Vestas under a long-term…

The Nordex Group has secured an order from Mexico for the supply of 20 N155/4.X turbines. The turbines will be delivered in a project-specific mode of 4.8 MW, giving the wind farm a cumulative rated capacity of 96 MW. The order also requires a two-year support contract for the turbines. The wind farm will be installed in the country’s north. The area has strong average wind speeds of 8 meters per second. The Nordex Group will mount the 4.8 MW turbines on 120-meter-high concrete towers this year, which the Group manufactures in the region. The rotor blades are also manufactured…

According to GlobalData, Poland’s stimulus programs, such as the “My Electricity” initiative, have already resulted in massive improvements, putting the country on track to have about 14.5GW of solar PV installations by the end of 2030. As a result, solar would account for more than 20% of the country’s capacity mix. With coal prices increasing and the rest of Europe moving for carbon neutrality, the Polish government is under pressure to take steps to encourage clean energy. “Poland’s reported cumulative solar PV installations – 3.9GW as of 1 Jan 2021 – represents a massive threefold jump from a year ago.…

Northern Gas Networks (NGN) has issued a green transition bond, allowing the public for the first time to participate in a hydrogen-ready network. NGN has partnered with Abundance, the UK’s leading ethical investment investing site, to launch the bond, which will help finance the upgrading of pipelines to ready the gas delivery network for hydrogen transport. It is the first time a managed electricity provider has sold a renewable transition bond to the general public, helping everybody to share in the transition to net zero emissions. The investment in Northern Gas Networks Finance Plc aims to collect £1 million in…

Korean engineering company Saman has hired international renewables consultancy OWC to take on the owners’ engineering role at the 300 MW Sinan offshore wind farm project, offshore South Korea. The Sinan offshore wind farm project is a 300 MW Phase 1 project at Jeonnam Sinan Jaeun-do, West Sea. It is part of the development area recently announced by president Moon Jae’s administration – an 8.2 GW offshore wind farm complex in Jeonnam Province intended for completion by the year 2030. Under the contract, OWC will deliver owners’ engineering services including review of site conditions; contract support for detail engineering, EPC…

Owned by Japan Renewable Energy Corporation, the wind project will be constructed by Shimizu Corporation and will feature 13 V105-3.45 MW turbines in 3.6 MW operating mode with 84-meter towers.

DNV has signed a $17.7 million contract to become the ‘Owner’s Engineer’ for Changhua Phase II wind farm in Taiwan. It is the largest offshore wind farm being developed solely by Taiwan Power Company (Taipower). The work scope lasting into the second half of 2025 will see DNV support project engineering reviews and marine coordination during wind farm construction. The scope over the project life cycle right through to commissioning includes design review, fabrication assurance, and construction assurance. Detailed design of the 31-turbine project is due this year, with the wind farm scheduled to be online by autumn 2025. DNV…

GE Renewable Energy has been awarded a contract by Vietnam Join-Stock Construction Electricity Corporation to supply a total of eight of GE’s 3.8-137 MW wind turbines to support the construction of the Thuan Nhien Phong wind farm in Binh Thuan province, in Vietnam’s South-Central Coastal area. The deal also includes a 10-year full-service O&M arrangement for the wind farm’s operation and maintenance. The wind farm will be powered by eight GE 3.8 MW platforms with 137-meter-rotor wind turbines and customized hub heights of 131.4 meter towers that are well matched to the wind conditions in Binh Thuan province. Gilan Sabatier,…

NewHydrogen, a BioSolar corporation, presented an update on the advancement of its green hydrogen technologies through a funded research collaboration with the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The company recently revealed that it had executed a deal, replacing the predecessor, to tenfold the testing activities. The original funded research program at UCLA centered on replacing the oxygen catalyst, iridium, a precious metal found only in asteroids, with low-cost, earth-abundant materials that equal or surpass iridium’s efficiency characteristics. The aim is to create low-cost, durable materials that can catalyze the electrochemical oxygen evolution reaction (OER) while still achieving high-performance water…