Author: Arnes Biogradlija

Ameren Missouri has acquired the company’s second wind energy center, a 300 MW facility located in northwest Missouri. Clean, renewable electricity from the plant was already reaching consumers, even though some of the project turbines are still under development. Approximately 100 MW are currently in operation, with an additional 50 MW to 75 MW expected by the end of March. The remaining 125 to 150 MW is expected to be operational later this year. The new Atchison renewable energy center, along with the 400 MW High Prairie Renewable Energy Center, which Ameren Missouri started running in December, will bring 700…

Equinor is looking to explore opportunities within offshore solar power, and together with Moss Maritime, Equinor wants to start testing off the island of Frøya. The plan is to construct a floating pilot plant off Frøya near Trondheim in the late summer of 2021. It is set to become the world’s first solar floating pilot plant in challenging waters. The Municipality of Frøya has been supportive and has been active in the preparation of the pilot plant. Equinor has filed an application with the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate. Designed to measure 80mx80m, the plant is towering less than…

PepsiCo has signed two deals with Ørsted to buy a portion of electricity from the 298 MW Haystack wind farm in Nebraska and the 367 MW Western Trail wind farm in Texas. PepsiCo will buy electricity from Haystack and Western Trail wind projects currently under construction and scheduled to come operational later this year. “We’re excited to partner with PepsiCo in their efforts to decarbonize their operations. These PPAs at Western Trail and Haystack are another demonstration of our ability to provide customized solutions across multiple geographies to support achievement of corporate sustainability ambitions.”Vishal Kapadia, senior vice president and chief…

Siemens Gamesa and Siemens Energy are merging their ongoing wind-to-hydrogen technologies to resolve one of the biggest problems of our decade – decarbonizing the economy to overcome the climate crisis. In their inventions, the firms are leading to a creative approach that completely incorporates an electrolyzer into an offshore wind turbine as a single coordinated device that directly extracts renewable hydrogen. The businesses plan to have a full-scale offshore solution demonstration by 2025/2026. The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research has announced that inventions will be applied as part of the “Hydrogen Republic of Germany” competition. “Our more than 30 years…

The European Marine Energy Center (EMEC) is launching a collaboration with the Highland Park and Orkney Distillery to pursue renewable hydrogen heating as a renewable fuel option for decarbonization in the distilling industry. The HySpirits 2 project obtained £58,781 of funding from the UK Government’s Chamber of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) for a feasibility study to explore a variety of technologies that would enable the use of green hydrogen as fuel in the distillation method. Driven by the European Marine Energy Center (EMEC), HySpirits 2 brings together leading business members, including Edrington’s multinational distillery company, founders of the Highland…

AGL Energy has selected Wärtsilä as one of the two suppliers for their up to 1,000 MW grid-scale energy storage plans. Wärtsilä, in collaboration with AGL, has signed a non-exclusive five-year Large Scale Storage System Frame Agreement for the procurement of energy storage projects. This arrangement would shorten the time frames for tenders for specific contracts, allowing quicker project schedules and commercial activity. In addition to its energy storage and energy management technologies, Wärtsilä’s full engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) capabilities is among the reasons why AGL selected Wärtsilä as an energy storage technology partner. In 2020, AGL aims to build energy…

Total and Iberdrola have joined forces to build proposals for an offshore wind farm in Denmark. The 50/50 alliance was pre-qualified by the Danish Energy Agency to send a proposal for the Thor offshore wind farm in the Danish North Sea. Thor will be one of the largest offshore wind farms in the world with a potential of between 800 MW and 1000 MW. “Total has a strong ambition to reach net zero by 2050 together with society and to play a major role in the energy transition in Europe. Our participation in the Thor tender is in line with this…

Canadian Solar wholly-owned subsidiary, Recurrent Energy, has completed the sale of the Slate project to Goldman Sachs Renewable Power (GSRP). Revenue from the deal will be recognized in Q1 2021 and commercial sales are due at the end of 2021. The Slate project is a 300 MW solar plus 140.25 MW/561 MWh storage project located in Kings County, California, and construction has begun. The majority-owned energy storage subsidiary of Canadian Solar, System Solutions and Energy Storage (SSES), will provide an optimized battery storage solution for the plant. In addition, PNC Bank is offering a tax-equity contribution to the initiative, which shows…

The Nordex Group received an order for its Delta4000 series N163/5.X turbines of approximately 131 MW in Sweden, at the end of last year. The utility Jämtkraft and its partner Persson Invest have ordered 23 turbines from the Nordex Group for the Hocksjön wind farm. The order also contains the Premium turbine package for a term of 25 years. Installation and completion of the Hocksjön will take place in 2022. The wind farm will be installed about 20 kilometers southwest of Ramsele in the province of Västernorrlands län. The turbines will be delivered in operating mode of 5.7 MW and with a…

GWEC Market Intelligence released the second edition of its annual Wind O&M Service Provider Overview and Database, that shows the global wind O&M service market is poised to experience a significant increase over the next five years. While the latest market forecast GWEC Market Intelligence predicts a strong 3 percent annual compound growth rate (CAGR) for new wind installations from 2020-2024, the CAGR for the after-sales and service market is projected to be double-digit over the same span. O&M plays a major role in the advancement of the wind energy industry and the energy transition as it ensures long-term sustainability…