Author: Arnes Biogradlija

Vestas has signed a 25 MW contract with long-standing customer PNE for the Boitzenhagen wind project in Lower Saxony, Northern Germany. The order is originating from Germany’s fourth auction in 2020 for wind energy. Vestas developed a site-specific wind power solution in close cooperation with PNE, featuring one V126-3.45 MW turbine at 137 meters hub height and six V136-3.45 MW turbines delivered in 3.6 MW Power Optimized Mode at 132 meters hub height in accordance with a long-term service agreement. The tailor-made solution leverages the versatility of the 4 MW platform to optimize the energy output of the project while catering to…

EDF Renewables North America has signed a storage contract with CleanPowerSF as an extension to the previously negotiated 20-year solar Power Purchase Agreement (PPA). A 200 megawatt hour (MWh) battery storage device will now be combined with the 100 megawatt (MWac) Maverick 6 Solar Project. By the end of 2021, the project is scheduled to come online and generate ample renewable energy annually to power 49,000 typical California homes. The project is located on federal land within a Solar Energy Zone (SEZ) and Development Focus Area, operated by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM), in Riverside County, California. The…

RWE Renewables and its project partners have signed lease agreements with The Crown Estate for the construction of four projects in the United Kingdom to expand the current Gwynt y Môr, Galloper, Greater Gabbard and Rampion offshore wind farms. The seabed leases awarded include extension projects with a total potential installed capacity of approximately 1.8 Gigawatts (GW), with a pro rata share of roughly 900 megawatts (MW) for RWE. In addition, it was agreed to seek to build the remaining seabed option in the original Zone 6 of the current Rampion project and to combine it with the wind farm…

Enel Green Power Spain, has connected an 18 MW wind farm in the towns of Blesa and Moyuela, in the provinces of Teruel and Zaragoza, to the electricity grid. The total expenditure amounted to €21,93 million for the project. The Cañaseca wind farm has five 3.6 MW unit-powered wind turbines and will produce about 55.28 GWh annually. Its commissioning would prevent the annual release of approximately 25,740 tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere. In 2019, 13 wind farms in Aragon located in the provinces of Teruel and Zaragoza were linked by Enel Green Power Spain, with a total combined annual capacity…

Eolos has deployed its FLS200 floating lidar buoy off the coast of Ulsan in South Korea, for Shell, which partners with Hexicon and Coens to build floating offshore projects in the Asian nation. Shell chose Eolos to provide the turnkey services of a wind resource floating lidar and metocean measurement campaign. With water depths of 150 meters, the project brings the company into a new area and deeper waters simultaneously, in what is anticipated to be a harsh environment for the measurement campaign ahead, Eolos said. “A prestigious project award for Eolos, raising the profile of our ability to secure…

Maersk Supply Service and Ørsted have joined forces to test a prototype buoy that will serve as both a protected mooring point and a vessel charging station, potentially displacing renewable energy from a large amount of marine fuel. The solution, built by Maersk Supply Service, will be tested in 2021 on one of Ørsted’s offshore wind farms. Maersk Supply Service and Ørsted have formed a collaboration to test a charging buoy capable of supplying green electricity to offshore wind farm service vessels and probably to a wide range of maritime vessels. The buoy can be used to charge smaller battery-…

TERNA ENERGY has placed a 144 MW order for the Karystia wind project in the prefecture of Evia, Greece. The contract includes the supply and installation of 40 V105-3.45 MW wind turbines delivered in 3.6 MW Power Optimised Mode, as well as a 10-year Active Output Management 5000 (AOM 5000) service agreement. “We are proud to collaborate with TERNA ENERGY on the Karystia wind project, which enjoys one of the highest wind speeds in Greece. Our V105-3.45 MW wind turbine has an extremely robust design, specifically created to optimise energy production in high wind conditions. With this technology, we expect…

The ZEBRA (Zero wastE Blade ReseArch) project, led by IRT Jules Verne, brings together industrial companies and technical centers (Arkema, CANOE, ENGIE, Suez, LM Wind Power, Owens Corning) to illustrate, on a full scale, the technical, economic and environmental importance of thermoplastic wind turbine blades, with an eco-design approach to facilitate recycling. The project has been launched for a period of 42 months with a budget of €18.5 million. In order to accelerate the transition of the wind power industry to a circular economy for wind turbine blades, the ZEBRA project establishes a strategic consortium representing a full value chain:…

ZeroAvia has completed the world’s first hydrogen fuel cell-powered flight of a commercial-grade aircraft. The flight took place at the company’s R&D facility in Cranfield, England, with the Piper M-class six-seat plane completing taxi, takeoff, a full pattern circuit, and landing. ZeroAvia’s achievement is the first step to realizing the transformational possibilities of moving from fossil fuels to zero-emission hydrogen as the primary energy source for commercial aviation. Eventually, and with no new fundamental science required, hydrogen-powered aircraft will match the flight distances and payload of the current fossil fuel aircraft. This major milestone on the road to commercial zero-emission…

LONGi Solar has been selected as the module supplier for Karachi Lyari Hospital’s 790kW solar project.  Power outages, including extended power cuts, are common across Pakistan; hospitals are therefore investing in expensive inverters and DG backups. But these so-called solutions present their own problems in terms of smoke and waste they generate, which are both a health risk and a major contributor to air pollution, making fossil-fuel-based energy-generating solutions both expensive and risky. Irrespective of the types of systems that hospitals may have in place, the best way to ensure constant clean power is to have a reliable, long-term, solar-generating…