Global wind power leader Iberdrola will pour six billion pounds ($8.24 billion) into a wind farm complex in the North Sea off the east coast of Britain, in its biggest project investment worldwide, it said on Monday. Iberdrola said in a statement it would foot the bill for the East Anglia Hub site, whose soaring... Continue Reading →
World’s Largest: Kincardine Floating Wind Farm Fully Operational
Kincardine floating offshore wind farm, located 15 km off the coast of Aberdeenshire, is now fully operational, Principle Power, a company that designed the 50MW wind farm's semi-submersible foundations, said Tuesday. The project, the world's largest of the type, consists of five Vestas V164-9.5 MW and one V80-2 MW turbine, each installed on WindFloat semi-submersible platforms... Continue Reading →
Aker Solutions, DeepOcean, and Solstad Offshore in Offshore Wind Services Pact
Offshore energy industry service providers Aker Solutions, DeepOcean, and Solstad Offshore have formed Windstaller Alliance, focused on offshore wind services. "The new partnership aims to provide the world’s most cost-efficient and complete product supply, fabrication, and marine services offering within offshore wind. The alliance will also pursue other offshore renewables segments," the companies said Thursday.The... Continue Reading →
US Aims to Hold Up to Seven Offshore Wind Auctions by 2025
The United States plans to hold up to seven offshore wind auctions in the next four years and will extend its ambitions to areas that have yet to be developed such as off the coast of California and in the Gulf of Mexico, a Biden administration official said on Wednesday. The announcement comes as the... Continue Reading →
World must triple clean energy investment by 2030 to curb climate change -IEA
(Reuters) - Investment in renewable energy needs to triple by the end of the decade if the world hopes to effectively fight climate change and keep volatile energy markets under control, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Wednesday. "The world is not investing enough to meet its future energy needs ... transition‐related spending is... Continue Reading →
Construction begins on multi-megawatt scale baseload H2 power plant in French Guiana
(H2Tech) Ballard Power Systems unveiled that its partner, Hydrogene de France (HDF Energy), commenced construction of the CEOG Renewstable Power Plant (CEOG) in French Guiana. CEOG is the world's first multi-megawatt, baseload hydrogen power plant, and the largest green hydrogen storage of intermittent renewable electricity sources. Also, CEOG is the first order for a new... Continue Reading →
Video: SBM Offshore’s LNG2Wire Floater Concept
SBM Offshore, one of the world's largest suppliers of floating, production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessels for the offshore oil industry, is looking at ways to diversify its offering, with a more dominant role predicted for gas in the future. The company, which has the ambition to have 25% of revenues from Gas & Renewables... Continue Reading →
Chevron Eyes Net Zero Operational Emissions by 2050
Chevron Corp on Monday set a target to cut operational emissions to net zero by 2050, joining a list of energy companies taking steps to reduce their carbon footprint. The move to cut upstream emissions from its own operations and indirect emissions such as those from power generation comes as investors and governments increase pressure... Continue Reading →
Brazilian Government studying creating auction of areas for offshore wind
(epbr) The regulatory framework for offshore wind farms must be done by decree and create rules to define, by auction, who will have the right to explore maritime areas for energy generation. The auction would solve the dilemma of overlapping projects currently in the licensing process with Ibama, for example. -- The Minister of Mines... Continue Reading →
Repsol raises low-carbon targets to speed up energy transition
(Reuters) - Spain's Repsol (REP.MC) raised its targets for building new renewable generation capacity and cutting emissions from its oil and gas business on Tuesday as part of a bid many in its sector in Europe are making to stave off global warming. The company said it now plans to have installed wind, solar and hydro plants... Continue Reading →