Author: Arnes Biogradlija

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…

Watson Farley & Williams (WFW) has advised Smart Energies Transition (Smart Energies) on the acquisition of an Italian photovoltaic portfolio from Ensource Renewables. The targets were two special purposes vehicles – Escogen and Ensource 3 – that own authorizations for the construction and installation of eight rooftop photovoltaic plants with an estimated power capacity of approximately 5 MW, located in the Lombardy, Veneto, Lazio and Marche regions in Italy. Smart Energies is an Independent Power Producer (IPP) specializing in the development, financing, construction and operation of renewable projects across Europe and Africa. The multidisciplinary WFW Italy team that advised Smart…

Statkraft Energias Renováveis has placed a large-scale order with the Nordex Group for a 518.7 MW project in Brazil. The Nordex Group will equip Statkraft’s largest wind farm project to date in South America, named “Ventos de Santa Eugenia”, with 91 N163/5.X turbines. It is the Nordex Group’s largest order for N163/5.X turbines since market launch of this turbine in 2019 so far and the first order outside Europe. The Nordex Group is now also supplying this turbine of the Delta4000 series with 5MW+ rated power to the Brazilian market. Statkraft’s order also includes a Premium Service contract covering three…

Groupe Renault and Plug Power have signed a Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU) to launch a 50-50 joint-venture based in France by the end of the first half of 2021. This strategic JV will position Groupe Renault and Plug Power to become key players in Europe in the research and development (R&D), transformation, manufacturing and sale of fuel cell-powered vehicles and hydrogen turn-key solutions in the coming years. This joint-venture platform will serve the fast-growing market of fuel cell light commercial vehicles, taxis, and commercial people transportation. Bringing complementary and competitive strengths together, this joint venture will build on Groupe Renault’s…