Author: Arnes Biogradlija

According to GlobalData, the German onshore wind market has seen a significant annual rise in installations of 46 percent with the addition of 1.431 MW or 420 turbines in 2020. By 2030 the country wants to obtain 65 percent of its electricity from wind, solar energy and other renewable energies, and then subsequently emerge as carbon neutral by 2050. However, the nation requires an average of 5GW+ of new onshore wind energy licenses annually from now until 2050 in order to meet its climate goal. The German onshore wind industry has suffered with stringent distance legislation of the federals and…

Uniper and Port of Rotterdam Authority have started feasibility study for green hydrogen plant at Maasvlakte. The parties have the ambition to realise a hydrogen plant on the site of Uniper by 2025 with a capacity of 100MW and to expand this capacity to 500MW. The feasibility study will be completed this summer. “Our location at Maasvlakte is the perfect place for large-scale production of green hydrogen. This is where everything comes together: large amounts of renewable energy, the required infrastructure, and industrial customers. A better place for green hydrogen production is hardly imaginable.”Andreas Schierenbeck, CEO of Uniper. “The production…

Siemens Energy and Air Liquide have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the objective to combine their expertise in PEM (Proton Exchange Membrane) electrolysis technology. They intend to focus their activities on these key areas: co-creation of large industrial-scale hydrogen projects in collaboration with customers, laying the ground for mass manufacturing of electrolyzers in Europe, especially in Germany and France, and R&D activities to co-develop next generation electrolyzer technologies. Hydrogen will play an essential role to achieve the European Union’s objectives for CO2 and greenhouse gas emission reduction. In order to meet rapidly growing demand, and to lower costs, it…

Total has bought a development pipeline of 2.2 GW of solar projects, and 600 MW of battery storage assets in Texas. The projects are bought from SunChase Power, a renewable energy company focused on developing utility-scale energy projects, and MAP RE/ES, a private energy investment firm. This inform comes after recent news of a joint venture with 174 Power Global to develop 1.6 GW in the United States. The pipeline consists of four large-scale solar projects, each with co-located battery energy storage systems (BESS), in industrial areas close to Houston that have high demand for electricity. Construction of the first…

EnBW and bp plan to jointly develop offshore wind farms off the coast of Great Britain in a 50:50 partnership. An important first milestone has now been reached: In the auction for the award of seabed rights by The Crown Estate in the UK, the two partners secured two large areas in the Irish Sea that are estimated to be the highest-value areas in the first auction of offshore wind rights in England and Wales for ten years. EnBW and bp plan to build two offshore wind farms there with a combined capacity of three gigawatts, that is enough to…

Vestas has secured a 29 MW order for the Mazara Messer Andrea wind park, to be located in Mazara del Vallo, Sicily, Italy. The contract includes the supply and installation of eight V136-3.45 MW delivered in 3.6 MW Power Optimised Mode. Vestas will also provide O&M services to the wind park for at least 10 years through an Active Output Management 4000 (AOM 4000) service agreement. The order has been placed by the Italian wind power operator E2i Energie Speciali, a company owned by F2i (Fondi italiani per le infrastrutture) and Edison. “We are pleased to enter into this new…

Linde has partnered with Hyosung Corporation, one of Korea’s largest industrial conglomerates, to develop, own and run a large-scale new liquid hydrogen system in South Korea. This robust hydrogen network will help the country’s ambitious decarbonization plan to reach net zero emissions by 2050. Linde will build and run the largest liquid hydrogen facility in Asia. With a capacity of more than 30 tons per day, this plant can process enough hydrogen to fuel 100,000 vehicles and save up to 130,000 tons of carbon dioxide tailpipe emissions per year. Based in Ulsan, Linde’s proprietary hydrogen liquefaction technology is used to…

Iberdrola has purchased a controlling stake in DP Energy’s offshore wind pipeline in Ireland, totaling 3 GW. The ventures are situated in three clusters on the east, west and south coasts of the country, each of which will be ready for the upcoming offshore auctions in 2025-2030. The deal also involves the purchase by Iberdrola of a majority stake in the business generated by DP Energy, which will be responsible for the construction of this wind pipeline in Ireland. The projects involved in the deal are the Inis Ealga Wind Farm on the south coast of Co Cork and the…

Denmark has reached a historic deal on the development of a North Sea energy hub. The energy hub will be an artificially built island 80 kilometers from the shores of the Jutland Peninsula. That would be the property of a public-private partnership. The hub will improve the convergence of Europe’s energy grids and increase the production of renewable electricity required for a climate-neutral Europe. Denmark has introduced a cut-off date of 2050 for oil and gas exploration in the North Sea and has canceled all future licensing rounds. Denmark is taking another important phase in the green revolution by deciding…

Watson Farley & Williams (WFW) has advised EWE Erneuerbare Energien (EWE) on its purchase of a portfolio of five German onshore wind farms from InvestInvent Funds SICAV through its InvestInvent Wind Energy Fund. EWE’s five wind farms are Bad Berleburg in North Rhine-Westphalia, Steinau in Hesse and Petersdorf 1, Petersdorf 2 and Stretense-Panschow, both in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The gross installed capacity of the five wind farm units is 28 MW. EWE is the renewable energy arm of the EWE Group, one of the main energy providers in Germany. It has been involved in the wind power sector for three decades…