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Installed offshore wind capacity will surpass onshore wind in the UK by 2026, and the UK will meet its goal to double its renewable energy capacity by 2030 four years early. This is according to the Norwegian energy intelligence company Rystad Energy, which says the targets will be met by a wave of mostly wind... Continue Reading →
(Bloomberg) - Green power is set to draw around $11 trillion of investment in the coming decades as the cost of renewables plummets and more of the world’s energy comes from electricity. That’s the latest analysis from BloombergNEF in its annual New Energy Outlook report. It’s further evidence of how cheap renewable power sources will... Continue Reading →
Italian energy services group Saipem expects no major delay to projects and predicted brisker business in the last part of the year after swinging to a loss in the third quarter. "We are not out of the woods yet ... (but) the picture starts to get brighter," Chief Executive Stefano Cao said in a conference call. Saipem... Continue Reading →
Cosan presented a proposal to buy the 51% stake in Gaspetro, a Petrobras subsidiary, which operates in the natural gas distribution market. The offer will be made through Compass, a company created by Cosan to concentrate investments in the gas and power generation market. Gaspetro holds stakes in 19 gas distributors, which exclusively operate local... Continue Reading →
Spanish green energy company Iberdrola reported 4.7% net profit growth for the first nine months on Wednesday and said it still expected that metric to rise at a mid to high-single digit rate this year. Boasting more than 32GW of renewable generation capacity in markets including Spain, the United States, Brazil and Britain, Iberdrola is capitalizing on... Continue Reading →
Floating wind turbines atop the ocean could be the next big renewables market. GTM helps explain the weird and wonderful world of clean energy. Onshore wind turbines can be found everywhere from the tropics to the Arctic. Three decades ago, developers started putting them on fixed foundations out at sea, sparking the rise of the offshore... Continue Reading →
Cade approved, without restrictions, the acquisition by State Power Investment Corporation of China (SPIC) of a 33% stake in the GNA I and GNA II thermoelectric plants, with 3 GW of capacity and integrated into the LNG terminal in Porto do Açu (RJ) ). - Agreement closed through the subsidiary SPIC Brasil foresees entry to... Continue Reading →
Offshore engineering and installation firm McDermott has teamed up with electrical equipment giant Schneider Electric, and io consulting - a Baker Hughes company - to design carbon-neutral facilities for the upstream oil and natural gas market. The trio plans to jointly explore and develop a proof of concept based on an offshore platform reference case,... Continue Reading →
Singapore's Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd (Keppel O&M) said Friday it had secured a contract valued at approximately S$600 million (USD 442 million) in the offshore renewable energy industry. Sharing the news on Friday, Keppel gave little details on the client and the type of order. It said that the contract was with "an energy... Continue Reading →
A floating offshore wind supply chain group has been formed in Scotland, as a subgroup of the Scottish DeepWind supply chain cluster, looking to ensure that the local firms benefit from the nascent but growing floating offshore wind industry. "Scotland is currently the world leader in the deployment of floating offshore wind with the Hywind... Continue Reading →
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