Author: Arnes Biogradlija

Siemens Energy is supplying the high-voltage direct-current (HVDC) power transmission technology for a further offshore connection in the German North Sea. The German-Dutch network operator TenneT and the BorWin5 Offshore Consortium signed a corresponding contract, consisting of Siemens Energy and Dragados Offshore. In 2025, the platform BorWin epsilon, which is part of the BorWin5 project, will begin the low-loss transmission of electricity produced by the EnBW He Dreiht wind farm off the island of Borkum to the Garrel/Ost converter station around 230 kilometers distant. The transmission capacity of 900 megawatts is calculated to serve over 1.1 million households with electricity.…

Vestas has received a 150 MW order in China that includes the supply of 53 V120-2.2 MW in 2.4 MW Power Optimized Mode and seven V155-3.3 MW turbines. The order also includes a 5-year Active Output Management 4000 (AOM 4000) service agreement. Deliveries are scheduled to start in the third quarter of 2020, with commissioning planned for the same year. Customer’s name and project’s name are undisclosed under customer’s request.

Vestas secured an additional 50 MW order for the second phase of Hoa Binh 1 wind farm. Since securing the first phase in December last year, Vestas has been working closely with the Phuong Anh Group to optimize this second phase of the project. The project is in Hòa Bình, a district of Bạc Liêu Province where the turbines will be installed in shallow waters close to shore along the Mekong Delta region. The contract includes the supply and supervision of the installation of 13 V150-4.2 MW turbines with ten turbines delivered in 3.8 MW and three turbines delivered in…

Vestas has secured a 101 MW order for a project in China that includes the supply of 42 V120-2.2 MW wind turbines delivered in 2.4 MW Power Optimised Mode, and a 20-year Active Output Management 4000 (AOM 4000) service agreement. With this order, Vestas has reached an order intake in China in 2020 of over 1 GW. Deliveries are expected to begin in the fourth quarter of 2020, with commissioning planned for the same quarter. The project and customer names are undisclosed.

Vattenfall solar team has set a new solar racing world endurance record in the Netherlands. The Nuna Phoenix solar car traveled more than 924 kilometers entirely powered by solar power over 12 hours. This year, because of the coronavirus, inclusion in an international solar race is impossible. Therefore, in an effort to set a new world endurance record, the Vattenfall solar team took their self-built Nuna Phoenix solar car to the RDW (Department of Road Transport) test track in Lelystad, the Netherlands. One unique aspect of the record attempt was that it was this year’s first time the Nuna would be…

Jemena has pledged, through a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Hyundai Australia and Coregas, to manufacture and supply hydrogen gas to Hyundai’s Macquarie Park headquarters from early 2021. Hydrogen vehicles are a step closer to taking over Sydney’s roads after the signing of the new agreement to supply renewably generated green hydrogen to Australia’s emerging zero emission vehicle industry. “A lack of critical refuelling infrastructure is regularly cited as a hand-brake to hydrogen vehicle sales. Our agreement with Hyundai and Coregas releases some of that pressure and is an opportunity to demonstrate that renewably generated hydrogen gas can be made…

CIT Group’s Power and Energy business has served as lead arranger for approximately $185 million in financing for a 66-megawatt portfolio of community solar projects. The financing was arranged on behalf of Clearway Energy Group, one of the largest developers and operators of clean energy generation facilities in the U.S. The portfolio comprises 19 separate projects totaling 66 megawatts of solar generation capacity in Massachusetts, Illinois, and New York State. Earlier this year, CIT had also served as lead arranger on approximately $200 million in financing for another Clearway portfolio of 21 community solar projects encompassing 76 megawatts of generation…

Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (GPT-3) is an autoregressive language model that uses deep learning to produce human-like text. It is the third-generation language prediction model in the GPT-n series created by OpenAI. GPT-3’s full version has a capacity of 175 billion machine learning parameters, which is over two orders of magnitude greater than that of its predecessor, GPT-2 and is in beta testing as of July 2020. Prior to the release of GPT-3, the largest language model was Microsoft’s Turing NLG, introduced in February 2020, with a capacity ten times less than that of GPT-3. The quality of the text…

Mahle, a series supplier for fuel cell vehicles, has joined the Hydrogen Council. The Hydrogen Council is a worldwide initiative of leading energy, transport, and industrial companies promoting hydrogen as a core component in the transition to cleaner energies. “Hydrogen is a cornerstone of CO2-neutral mobility, particularly with regard to road transport. There is still a lot to be done to industrialise fuel cell technology consistently and to complement the highly efficient combustion engine with regenerative fuels, which is important in terms of climate and industrial policy.”Dr Jörg Stratmann, CEO and Chairman of the Mahle Management Board. The company also…

EDP Renewables has signed a €426 million sales and purchase agreement with Finerge, one of Portugal’s largest renewable energy companies, for virtually all of stake owned by EDPR – as well as outstanding shareholder loans–in a portfolio of 242 MW of installed onshore wind farms. EDPR completed the divestment through the sale of seven onshore wind farms situated in Ávila and Catalonia. The assets in question were operational for an average of nine years. The value of these properties stands at about 507 million euros depending on the sale price and the value of the net outstanding debt. Consequently, the estimated…