Author: Arnes Biogradlija

The European Investment Bank (EIB) is investing €43.5 million to fund the largest solar project in Andalusia and one of the most powerful in Spain. Despite the lockdown related to COVID-19, more than 85 percent of the construction plan was completed successfully by May 2020. This investment, supported by the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI), the main pillar of the Investment Plan for Europe, will contribute to Spain’s green recovery and will create approximately 350 jobs in the Andalusian transition region during the implementation phase. The Cabrera Solar project includes the construction and operation of four 50 MWp solar photovoltaic…

Macquarie’s Green Investment Group (GIG) and Enso Energy are working together in a UK solar development joint venture. The partnership was formed with the goal of establishing one of the largest subsidy-free solar and battery storage portfolios in the UK that will deliver renewable energy to communities and businesses throughout the country. GIG and Enso have established an ambitious project pipeline currently under construction which represents an initial capacity of 1 GW. Initial projects are grid secured and are being submitted for planning approval. It involves initiatives across England and Wales, where the team is currently undertaking virtual community meetings…

Inovateus Solar has started construction on Logansport municipal utility’s first solar project after the city retired its over 120-year-old coal power plant. Financed by a power purchase agreement (PPA), the solar project will minimize carbon emissions from Logansport Municipal Utilities (LMU), help stabilize energy prices for LMU customers, and also host a bee and butterfly habitat that will support farming in the area. The 80-acre 16 megawatt (MW AC) solar installation will power the equivalent of about 3.700 homes. Financed by Alchemy Renewable Energy, the 30-year PPA allows LMU to buy the renewable solar generation at a fixed kilowatt-hour rate with…

Vestas has received a 28 MW repowering order from ecoJoule construct for the wind project Brest, located in Lower-Saxony in northern Germany, won in the tender for the Federal Network Agency. Five EnVentus platform V150-5.6 MW turbines, with concrete hybrid towers with a hub height of 166 meters, will substitute the currently installed turbines to increase annual energy production. The new tower offering highlights the advantages of the modular EnVentus architecture allowing improved versatility and local conditions optimization. However, relative to steel tower solutions, the hybrid tower approach would reduce the CO2 emissions of the turbines by more than 20 percent.…

Sterling and Wilson Solar Solutions have revealed that they have been awarded a $99 million contract to build a 194 MW project in the United States. It is being built by a leading sustainable energy company, and will be co-located in an region that is in service with substantial wind production. Project construction will begin in September 2020 and commission by November 2021. The entire turn-key execution for the PV project will be operated by SWSS, and once commercially operational, the plant will generate enough solar energy to power over 35.000 homes, saving around 275.000 metric tons of carbon emissions.…

Windpark Zeewolde, Vestas and Rabobank have closed contracts for wind turbines and financing for the Windpark Zeewolde project in the Netherlands. A unique collaboration of more than 200 local farmers, residents and entrepreneurs from the Netherlands, Windpark Zeewolde has placed an order for 83 Vestas wind turbines totaling 322 MW for the Zeewolde wind project. The project is situated in the suburbs of Zeewolde, near the IJsselmeer, on an area covering over 300 square kilometers. The wind park currently consists of more than 200 turbines which will be replaced by new Vestas turbines that will produce approximately three times more…

Vattenfall is exploring the potential of two new wind farms South West Scotland along with a battery-powered storage facility at each site. The Whiteneuk wind farm project is situated approximately 5 kilometers south of Moniaive and will consist of up to 35 wind turbines. The Quantans Hill wind farm project, located about 2 kilometers north-east of the village of Carsphairn, will consist of up to 21 wind turbines. Each turbine could have a blade tip height of up to 250 meters. New onshore wind is the cheapest way to produce electricity, and recent plans from Vattenfall for South West Scotland…

Shetland Islands Council (SIC) has granted planning permission for Viking wind farm’s temporary main construction compound southeast of Sandwater. The site will cover a maximum area of 250 square meters along an access route off the A970 main road. During the four-year construction process of the wind farm, offices, workshops, a canteen and other welfare facilities will be provided to the workers along with a laydown area for storing plant, fuel, equipment and supplies. Work on the main compound and its access track is set to begin later this year as an early part of the main wind farm construction…

The Nordex Group has started the construction of a factory for the production of concrete towers for its turbines on a 12-hectare site located in Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. After completion in August, Nordex will be providing jobs for about 300 workers while creating an additional 200 jobs with suppliers of local components. “We are pleased to be setting up a further industrial nucleus in Motilla del Palancar with our tower-manufacturing facility. This plant will also mean additional employment opportunities in Castilla-La Mancha as a business centre. All in all several hundred people will be employed at the site. But the…

Vestas has secured a 48 MW order with Vietnamese developer, Phong Lieu Wind Power JSC for a wind project located in the Quang Tri Province of Vietnam. In total, Vestas will supply, deliver, install and commission 12 V150-4.2 MW of wind turbines supplied in 4.0 MW operating mode. As with previous projects in the province, the Phong Lieu wind farm will leverage project management, and transport capabilities of Vestas to develop and deliver site-specific solutions in the area’s remote and complex mountainous terrain. The order also includes a service agreement for 10 years of Active Output Management 5000 (AOM 5000), designed…