Author: Arnes Biogradlija

Swiss-based European energy company MET Group has acquired a 100 percent stake in a 42-megawatt wind park in Bulgaria, after signing a share purchase agreement with Italian Enel Green Power. The transaction is part of the MET growth strategy to build a large renewable portfolio in the CEE area. The closing of the deal is scheduled to take place by the end of December 2020. The wind park, the 5th largest in Bulgaria, consists of two sites in the municipalities of Shabla and Kamen Bryag, each with 14 Vestas-V90 wind turbines, each with a capacity of 3 MW. The wind…

Wärtsilä will supply AEP OnSite Partners with its next generation energy storage system to serve the City of Martinsville, Virginia, USA. This first-ever GridSolv Quantum energy storage project illustrates Wärtsilä’s innovation capability. Together with a 10-year Wärtsilä Guaranteed asset performance agreement, the system is estimated to provide considerable savings to the region. AEP OnSite Partners, a US-based customer-centric distributed energy asset solutions provider, placed an order for the device in August. The Wärtsilä solution is expected to be delivered under an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract. The service agreement requires regular maintenance inspections, tracking of GEMS, extended product warranties,…

EDP Renováveis, through its wholly owned subsidiary EDP Renewables North America, has concluded a 15-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) to sell approximately 100 MW of energy generated by two solar PV plants. The projects are located in the U.S. state of Ohio and are scheduled to begin operations in 2022. With EDPR’s current solar assets in operation and 1,4 GW of new solar projects already underway, EDPR’s portfolio will expand its technical diversification and cross 1,6 GW of solar capacity build-up by 2022. With this new agreement, EDPR has secured 85 percent of the target~7.0 GW of global wind and…

Two of the UK’s leading research organizations in the production of robotics for use in offshore renewables are working together to improve the partnership between applied academic research and industry needs and further grow and enhance the robotics sector’s potential. The Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult and the Offshore Robotics for Certification of Assets (ORCA) Center, a partnership led by the Edinburgh Center for Robotics (Heriot-Watt University and Edinburgh University), the Imperial College London and Oxford and Liverpool Universities, will work together to transform UK robotics creativity and research skills into products and services. Both organizations will use their scientific…

ENERCON has signed a contract with TRUNGNAM Group to deliver its new E-160 EP5 E2 for the Ea Nam wind farm. The collaboration will begin this year with construction. ENERCON is supplying its new E-160 EP5 E2 for what will be the country’s largest wind farm in the future. After completion in 2021, the Ea Nam wind farm in the Dak Lak province will have an output of over 400 MW. The E-160 EP5 E2 has a direct drive 5.5 MW permanent magnet generator that can generate more than 21,500 MWh at locations with an average wind speed of 7.5…

The Nordex Group has received orders for 271 wind turbine systems with a total capacity of 1.228,6 MW in the third quarter of 2020. The Delta4000-series turbines with an output range of 4 to 5 MW accounted for 86 percent of the orders. In the first nine months of 2020 , the total order intake of the Company (excluding its services business) amounted to 3,758.5 MW (9 M 2019: 4,738.7 GW), with the Delta4000 series playing a dominant position at 81 percent. In the third quarter, 31 percent of orders came from Europe, mostly from Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom…

Babcock & Wilcox, through its B&W Renewable division, has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Eos Energy Storage to sell and operate the patented Eos Znyth zinc battery solution for industrial and utility energy storage. Under this arrangement, B&W subsidiary Babcock & Wilcox Company will market and offer this battery technology to its customers worldwide and B&W subsidiary Babcock & Wilcox Construction will act as Eos’ sole preferred technology installation provider in the U.S. and Canada. B&W will market the Znyth Zinc Battery Storage solution to its global customer base, including industrial customers such as refineries and pulp and paper mills, as well…

Copenhagen Offshore Partners (COP) has opened an office in Edinburgh, Scotland, which will serve as the global floating offshore wind competence center. The first new staff members in the office have already started to recruit on an ongoing basis. “With Scotland’s strong oil & gas and marine heritage, history of innovation and leading status and potential in floating offshore wind, Edinburgh is the ideal place for COP to launch the growth of our floating wind ambitions.”Richard Copeland, technical development director based in the new Edinburgh office COP is actively developing offshore wind power projects in Scottish waters and looks forward to…

JERA aims to achieve zero CO2 under the “JERA Zero CO2 Emissions 2050” goal. The company formulated a “JERA Zero CO2 Emissions 2050” roadmap for its Japanese business and set new environmental targets to be met by 2030. JERA ‘s goals, including “JERA Zero CO2 Emissions 2050,” are focused on advancements in decarbonization technology, economic logic and government policy coherence. JERA will take the following approaches to achieve its goal: Complementarity between renewable energy and zero CO2 emission of thermal power generation.JERA will reach zero CO2 emissions through a mix of renewable energy and zero CO2 thermal power generation. The…

The French solar leader has won three projects, including one in the Paysde-la-Loire region as part of the government’s solar invitations to tender. These projects are located in Montoir de Bretagne, in Loire-Atlantique (44), on the land of Nantes Saint-Nazaire Port. Three ground-based solar power plants will be located on approximately 15 hectares of land belonging to Nantes Saint-Nazaire Port, in the immediate vicinity of the LNG terminal of Montoir-de-Bretagne. Totaling a power of 12.6 MWp (two installations of 5 MWp and one of 2.6 MWp), they will inject, from the first half of 2022, their first clean and renewable…