(OEE) Dutch King Willem-Alexander has officially inaugurated the offshore wind farm Hollandse Kust Zuid in the Dutch sector of the North Sea. To mark the occasion the king celebrated the completion of Vattenfall’s largest offshore wind farm to date together with executives of Vattenfall, BASF and Allianz on the beach of IJmuiden in front of... Continue Reading →
Avangrid Terminates Long-Fought PPAs in Massachusetts at Cost of Almost USD 50 Million
(OW) Massachusetts’s electric distribution companies Eversource Energy, National Grid and Unitil have agreed to terminate their power purchase agreements (PPAs) for the Commonwealth Wind offshore wind farm at the request of the project developer, Iberdrola-owned Avangrid, which will pay USD 48 million in penalties for the termination that is yet to be approved by the... Continue Reading →
Portugal Zooms In on Three Offshore Wind Areas with 3.5 GW Capacity for Upcoming Auction
An inter-ministerial working group on offshore wind set up by the Portuguese government as part of the process of organising the country’s first offshore wind tender has narrowed down the initially identified areas to three that would be offered for development later this year. As reported at the beginning of this year, the working group... Continue Reading →
Iberdrola’s First French Offshore Wind Farm Begins Supplying Electricity to the Grid
(OE) Spanish renewable energy company said Thursday that its first French offshore wind farm has officially started supplying electricity to the grid. Electricity from the Saint-Brieuc offshore wind farm has started feeding into the grid in Brittany for the first time, as the wind farm is connected to the national electricity grid managed by RTE.... Continue Reading →