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(OEM) Wave Energy Scotland (WES) has launched a tender for a study into the techno-economic benefits of shared services and infrastructure for wind and wave energy generation technologies and projects. The challenge is to identify and analyze opportunities for sharing of physical infrastructure, supply chains and services between wave energy and floating wind energy technologies and developments. These opportunities... Continue Reading →
Enel Brasil and the Government of the State of Ceará signed a memorandum of understanding to carry out technical, commercial, legal and financial feasibility studies for the future development of green hydrogen production projects in the State by Enel Green Power Brasil, an renewable generation of the Enel Group in the country. The partnership will... Continue Reading →
(OEM) Looking at the future of the oil and gas industry in the sustainable energy landscape, Wood Mackenzie, an energy intelligence group, has outlined three key elements of the energy super basins of the future. Ever since Russia’s attack on Ukraine, the outlook for the supply, demand, and price of fossil fuels is constantly shifting, which... Continue Reading →
Subsea 7 has laid the first subsea cables in the water for the 94.6 MW Hywind Tampen floating wind farm offshore Norway. JDR Cable System is in charge of supplying the electric cables for the project from its factory in Hartlepool, the UK, while Subsea 7 is responsible for the installation of the cables and... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Newly launched in Brazil, aluminium maker Norsk Hydro's (NHY.OL) renewable energy unit Hydro Rein is looking to boost its presence by supplying green electricity to large industries seeking clean power, a company executive said. The Norwegian company's renewable energy unit has already invested in solar and wind power projects to supply electricity to three of... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - The Biden administration on Wednesday said it had identified 700,000 acres for possible offshore wind energy development in the Gulf of Mexico, seeking to expand a growing clean energy industry to a major U.S. oil and gas hub. It also said President Joe Biden would direct his Interior Department to move ahead with... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Shell (SHEL.L) is exploring a sale of its stakes in two U.S. Gulf of Mexico oil and gas developments which could raise as much as $1.5 billion for the energy major, people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. Potential divestments of some aging assets would allow the company to focus on newer and larger... Continue Reading →
(OE) Spanish offshore engineering firm Saitec Offshore Technologies and renewables giant RWE on Wednesday marked the completion and the launching operation of their DemoSATH floating wind unit. SATH Technology is based on a concrete platform concept with a plug-and-play Single Point Mooring, the same technology used for FPSOs. The DemoSATH project uses a 2MW turbine... Continue Reading →
Green energy infrastructure developer Cerulean Winds has revealed it will bid for four seabed lease sites with a combined capacity of 6 GW of floating wind to decarbonise the UK’s oil and gas sector under Crown Estate Scotland’s Innovation and Targeted Oil and Gas (INTOG) leasing round. This scale will remove more emissions quickly, keep... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - The governments of Sao Paulo and Minas Gerais, the two most-populous Brazilian states, on Monday cut local taxes on ethanol, a move followed by Parana state, in a bid to make the biofuel more competitive at the pump after a similar gasoline tax cut. Sao Paulo cut the ICMS tax, similar to a... Continue Reading →
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