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Vodafone agrees 10 year solar PPA with Mytilineos and Centrica – securing clean and affordable energy and supporting its net zero ambitions
The 10-year agreement for power generated from the solar farms, in Lincolnshire, Worcestershire and Nottinghamshire, secures clean energy and supports Vodafone’s ambition to achieve net zero UK operations by 2027. Vodafone will purchase a significant proportion of the electricity output from the solar farms, securing their development and bringing additional renewable power provision to the ...
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Uk Electricity Generation To Be Fossil Fuel Free By 2035?
UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, stated that removing gas as a power source will help protect against price surges (during Conservative conference).Johnson has also confirmed plans to eliminate fossil fuels from the UK’s electricity generation process by 2035.The UK generated 43% of its electricity from renewable sources in 2020 but gas-fired power plants still account for a significant ...
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Moreld will participate in a seminar hosted by Oslo-based law firm Thommesen on the 7th of March 2022.
The seminar will cover the latest trends and tendencies in the global offshore wind market, how this will likely affect the supply chain and developers and also an update on the regulatory framework for offshore wind developments in Norway. The focus will be on project execution and challenges from different angles, including how, and to what extent, a local supply chain can be competitive in the ...
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DTE Energy's MIGreenPower Program Surpasses 50,000 Residential Subscribers
DTE Energy's MIGreenPower program, one of the largest voluntary renewable energy programs in the country, this week surpassed 50,000 residential subscribers - a customer base roughly equal to the population of Ypsilanti. With approximately 500 new residential customers joining each week and strong demand from some of the state's largest corporations and non-profit organizations, the program is ...
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Invenergy and GE Renewable Energy Complete Largest Wind Project in North America
Invenergy and GE Renewable Energy this week announced commercial operations for the 998-megawatt Traverse Wind Energy Center, the largest wind farm constructed in a single phase in North America. Located in north central Oklahoma, Traverse joins the operational 199-megawatt Sundance Wind Energy Center and the 287-megawatt Maverick Wind Energy Center, as the last of three projects developed by ...
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Centrica acquires battery storage project from Cragside Energy that could ‘unlock wind energy potential in North Sea’
The site in Dyce, near Aberdeen is located near a connection for North Sea offshore wind farms and will contribute towards managing network constraints – by storing electricity when it is abundant for times when it is not, helping improve the energy independence of the UK and reduce our reliance on fossil fuels. Last year, the National Grid paid £244million to wind farm operators ...
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50Hertz Increases Investments in Grid Infrastructure to Accelerate Energy Transition
The German electricity transmission system operator 50Hertz wants to boost the connection capacity for offshore wind farms from around 1 GW today to more than 7 GW in 2030. In this way, the company and its employees can make a significant contribution to achieving climate protection targets, maintaining security of supply and strengthening energy sovereignty. "The legislation now initiated by the ...
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The SEAI Energy Show 2022 - March 30-31 - RBS Dublin
Clarke Energy will be exhibiting at the SEAI Energy Show 2022 taking place on 30th- 31st March at the RDS in Dublin. The event is Ireland’s leading business to business sustainable energy event hosted by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI). Clarke Energy experts will be available on stand B9 to discuss our range of flexible energy systems which provide a variety of ...
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Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction Changing Its Name to “Doosan Enerbility”
Resolution reached at BoD meeting with plans for finalization at shareholders meeting New name “Doosan Enerbility” coined by combining words “energy” and “sustainability” “Renaming being pursued in alignment with changes in business environment and to reflect company’s future aspirations” Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction is ...
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Doosan Heavy Signs Long Term Service Agreement for Jeju Hallim Offshore Wind Farm
KRW 180 billion contract to provide O&M service for 20 years on 18 wind turbines that are to be built by 2024 Application of locally manufactured offshore wind turbines expected to enable swift response to clients’ demands, including O&M needs Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction announced on March 3rd that it had signed a long term service agreement with Korea Midland ...
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Vanadium Flow Battery Technology Available for Licensing from PNNL
Technology designed to bolster resilience of the electric grid and provide a way to store large amounts of energy from renewable sources is available, thanks to researchers from the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The research involves vanadium redox flow batteries—large batteries designed to store massive amounts of energy for long periods. These batteries hold the ...
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New Data Indicates California Remains Ahead of Clean Electricity Goals
Data from the California Energy Commission (CEC) shows that 59 percent of the state's electricity came from renewable and zero-carbon sources in 2020. The CEC estimates that in 2020, 34.5 percent of the state's retail electricity sales were served by Renewables Portfolio Standard (RPS)-eligible sources such as solar and wind. When sources of zero-carbon energy such as large hydroelectric ...
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DOE Releases First-Ever Comprehensive Strategy to Secure America’s Clean Energy Supply Chain
The U.S. Department of Energy recently (Feb 24) released America’s first comprehensive plan to ensure security and increase the country's energy independence. The report, “America’s Strategy to Secure the Supply Chain for a Robust Clean Energy Transition,” lays out dozens of critical strategies to build a secure, resilient, and diverse domestic energy sector industrial base that will establish ...
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Pattern Energy Completes Construction of Largest Renewable Energy Project in U.S. History
Pattern Energy Group LP has completed construction and begun commercial operation of its suite of Western Spirit Wind power projects. Western Spirit Wind is comprised of four wind power facilities totaling more than 1,050 megawatts located in Guadalupe, Lincoln, and Torrance Counties in central New Mexico. U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich said, “The largest renewable energy project in American ...
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BluWave-ai and Summerside Launch Canadian Smart Grid AI Center of Excellence
BluWave‐ai has launched the Canadian Smart Grid AI Center of Excellence at the City of Summerside, Prince Edward Island in partnership with Summerside Electric. The Center consists of wind farm, solar array, battery storage, grid connection, smart metering assets, and a cloud-based AI optimization platform with networking to users internationally. The Center will serve as a real-world AI test ...
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Helping Puerto Rico Achieve 100% Renewable Energy by 2050
Researchers at Berkeley Lab are working with five other Department of Energy national labs to develop a roadmap for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico to meet its 100% renewable energy mandate. A new Memorandum of Understanding, signed earlier this month between the Commonwealth and the federal government, kickstarts this "PR100 Study," a two-year project funded by FEMA to conduct a comprehensive ...
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Doosan Heavy Expands Cooperation on Eco-Friendly Hydrogen Energy Business
Partnering with KEPCO E&C on commercialization of ammonia- fueled gas turbine power plant Pursuing development of fuel cells, 100% hydrogen-fueled and dual-fuel power plants together with KOMIPO and JC Energy Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction is actively seeking to expand cooperation in the development of eco-friendly hydrogen energy technologies. Doosan Heavy announced on ...
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Second Major Offshore Wind Project Breaks Ground in U.S.
U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland was in East Hampton, New York, on Feb 11 to commemorate the groundbreaking of the South Fork wind energy project, the second commercial-scale, offshore wind energy project approved for federal waters in the United States. The South Fork project will be located offshore Rhode Island and New York and have a capacity of 130 megawatts of wind energy -- ...
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CPUC Approves Long-Term Plans To Meet Electricity Reliability And Climate Goals
The California Public Utilities Commission this week (Feb 10) approved plans to ensure long-term sufficient electricity resource investments, including transmission, for the safe and reliable delivery of electricity and the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. The CPUC, per Senate Bill 350 (De León, 2015), developed an integrated resource planning process to ensure that California's electric ...
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Doosan Heavy Signs KRW 1 trillion Contract for Casting & Forging Facility Construction in Saudi Arabia
Saudi’s largest 400,000m²-sized casting & forging facility to be built with the annual capacity to produce 60 thousand tons of castings & forgings Global market to be targeted together with local SMEs for manufacturing facility construction and equipment supply Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction announced on February 11th that it had signed an EPC contract valued ...
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