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(Reuters) - French energy giant TotalEnergies (TTEF.PA) has pulled ahead of rivals Shell (SHEL.L) and BP in the race to build up a renewables business, data collected by Reuters shows. But despite the growing focus on the climate, investors remain cautious for now, with shares of the three European giants trailing their oil and gas-focused U.S. rivals Exxon Mobil... Continue Reading →
(TN) Australian renewable green energy developer Fortescue Future Industries (FFI) and Enel's global renewable energy arm, Enel Green Power S.p.A. (EGP), today announced that they will partner to explore the co-development of the green hydrogen value chain, with an initial focus on Latin America and Australia. FFI and EGP share a common view on the... Continue Reading →
(OE) Energy industry expert and assurance provider DNV has completed Lenders’ Technical Due Diligence on Ørsted’s Hornsea 2 project, the world’s largest offshore wind farm in operation. DNV performed an independent energy yield assessment and carried out a thorough technical due diligence investigation on all aspects of the offshore wind farm and the related offshore... Continue Reading →
Singapore-based Sembcorp Marine said Friday its subsidiary Sembmarine SLP had won a Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) contract with the Danish offshore wind developer Ørsted for the Hornsea 2 offshore wind farm, one of the world’s largest wind farms located 89 km off the Yorkshire coast in the UK North Sea. The PPM contract involves the... Continue Reading →
(OED) Cable installation has kicked off at Vineyard Wind, the U.S. first commercial scale offshore wind farm, at a site located 15 miles south of Martha’s Vineyard. Vineyard Wind, the company developing the namesake wind farm, also announced that it expects to begin nearshore cable work off the south coast of Cape Cod in... Continue Reading →
Italy-headquartered Prysmian Group has been awarded a contract by Réseau de Transport d’Électricité (RTE) to provide power grid asset management services for Saint-Nazaire, Fécamp, and Calvados wind farms offshore France. Under the contract, Prysmian Group will provide inspection, maintenance, and repair services for the submarine export cable links connecting the three offshore wind farms near the... Continue Reading →
(OED) Mainstream Renewable Power and Ocean Winds said Wendesdayhave signed the seabed lease agreement with Crown Estate Scotland to the value of £36million for the development of a 1.8 GW floating offshore wind farm off Shetland. The companies were appointed preferred bidder by Crown Estate Scotland during the ScotWind clearing process in August 2022. With... Continue Reading →
Japan’s electricity utility Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) is set to acquire the Scottish floating wind specialist Flotation Energy. This is TEPCO's first investment in overseas wind power. Floation Energy founders Allan MacAskill and Lord Nicol Stephen developed Kincardine, the world’s largest floating windfarm in operation. Flotation Energy currently has interests in Morecambe in the... Continue Reading →
Italian energy industry services firm Saipem said Wednesday it had, in consortium with Bouygues Travaux Publics and Boskalis (BSB), installed and ballasted the Gravity-Based Structures (GBS) foundations for the Fécamp offshore wind farm in Normandy, France. In 2020, the BSB Consortium was awarded the contract for the design, construction, and installation works of the GBS.... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) Danish wind turbine maker Vestas reported on Wednesday a wider-than-expected operating loss for the third quarter, cutting its full-year outlook due to continued cost inflation and supply chain instability. Vestas cut its 2022 profit margin outlook to minus 5% from previously between minus 5% and 0%, and narrowed its full-year revenue forecast to between... Continue Reading →
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