The nature lovers won. After a storm of popular resistance and an avalanche of negative hearing responses, the Norwegian government now withdraws, dropping a national framework for expanding onshore wind energy.
SSE has nominated MHI Vestas as preferred supplier to Scotland's next big offshore wind project, Seagreen, of 1.1 GW.
Norway's energy directorate has found a 3.5 TWh increase in productivity at the country's hydropower plants, shows new analysis. This increase can't be explained by anything but climate change. Whether the changes are permanent or natural fluctuations, however, the directorate can't conclude.
The global market for offshore wind cables will grow by 57 percent toward 2023, says new report.
Opposition to expanding wind energy in Norway has gradually become more rigid than the country's mountain granite. The Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate now says this resistance, in the worst-case scenario, could completely halt the expansion of domestic onshore wind.
The German utility is building the country's largest solar farm without public support.
It's apparently normal for the Chinese government to halt production at several facilities during major events, according to researcher.
A PPA secures the economy of a new 117.6MW wind project in Canada.
When OX2 completes wind farms Kröpuln and Storbacken in 2021, Axpo will buy the electricity.
Deutsche Windtechnik will be taking over the service contract for Trianel Borkum II as soon as development is complete.
The Federal US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has approved the design and installation method for a pilot offshore wind project that could surge from starting with two Siemens Gamesa wind turbines to landing at 2 GW.
The Finnish-Russian consortium contracted to develop around 2 GW of wind capacity in Russia has entered a deal with a regional government near the Kazakh border.
Out of seven original bidders for an Egyptian project rated at 250 MW, only Vestas remains, a domestic media reports. On the other hand, Siemens Gamesa announces a corresponding order and is said to await yet another.
The German manufacturer received orders for a total of 436 wind turbines during the third quarter of 2019.
The Danish utility has opened a trading office in Chicago to trade electricity in the US and secure the best prices.
For the first time since the industrial revolution, fossil fuels – mainly coal – are displaced as the UK's main source of energy, thus giving way to a mix of wind, solar and biomass.
A US merger could entail a new utility valued around USD 67 billion as well as new consortium partner for Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners.
Temporary application of a ten-year-old amendment to a convention means that Norway can now import CO2. This also marks the beginning of possible CO2 storage in the North Sea, petroleum and energy minister says.
Despite massive state subsidy, Norway's first floating offshore wind farm, Hywind Tampen, will hardly be profitable, Equinor's New Energy Solutions executive VP tells several domestic media.
We need to have a discussion about the future of hydrogen in the context of accelerating decarbonization, says Boston Consulting Group, which takes a skeptical view of hydrogen as an energy storage medium or for cars in personal transport. The group holds that more attention should be paid to industrial processes and electrofuels.
The Danish Energy Agency has received three applications for preliminary assessment licenses for three coastal offshore wind farms through the country's open-door ordinance. The facilities are planned to consist of 12MW wind turbines.
Offshore wind projects via an open-door ordinance are pushed into public hearings with a new procedural change. This will delay installation by an additional two to three years, making the green energy transition both more expensive and slower, states project developer.
The Norwegian oil company and its partners have made their final investment decision to install floating wind project Tampen for an approximate total cost of NOK 5 billion, parties inform Friday.
While Tulsi Tanti reports renewed interest in the crisis-plagued turbine maker, Indian authorities are in no small words attacking an analysis that concludes the country will fall short of its 2022 expansion target by 71 GW.
The sales agreement for the UK offshore wind farm applies to an onshore substation, export cables as well as an offshore substation. These assets have a combined value of roughly EUR 520 million.
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