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Amarenco Becomes France's Number One in Rooftop Solar
Amarenco, a leading European renewable energy IPP, has announced that it has become number one in the highly competitive 100kW-8MW rooftop solar segment in France, after winning 32MW in the latest CRE4.5 Buildings tender. Amarenco has been awarded a total capacity of more than 100MW across the five consecutive calls for tenders in this category…
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Japan Transfers Excess Renewable Power Between Regions for First Time
Japan transferred excess renewable energy supplies between two of its electricity regions for the first time since a major shakeup of its power sector, the country's grid monitor told Reuters.The transfer of excess solar power supplies from the island of Kyushu to Japan's main island of Honshu signals an increase in flexibility in the country's pre
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Singapore Funds Green Marine Fuel Program
Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) has allocated about USD 3.64 million under the Green Energy Programme to support the development and use of cleaner alternative marine fuels such as biofuels and methanol. Senior Minister of State, Dr Lam Pin Min announced initiatives…
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Belgium's Northwester 2 Wind Project Gets $242 mln EIB Loan
Belgium's 219 megawatt (MW) Northwester 2 offshore wind farm project secured a 210 million euro ($242 million) loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB), the bank said on Friday.EIB said the project, estimated to cost around 642 million euros, was among four Belgian offshore wind projects it would support with the European Fund for Strategic Inv
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Orsted Expands US Business with $510 Mln Acquisition
Orsted, the world's largest offshore wind developer, said on Monday it would buy U.S.-based Deepwater Wind LLC for $510 million as part of its strategy to expand in a major growth market.The still small U.S. offshore wind sector is seen as one of the most important markets outside the core European region…
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Rolls-Royce Invests in Qinous
Rolls-Royce is investing in Berlin-based start-up company Qinous GmbH, a global provider of energy storage and control systems…
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ABB Offshore Wind Transformers for Borssele
ABB has won an order of more than $20 million from MHI Vestas Offshore Wind to supply reliable, energy-efficient and compact WindSTAR transformers…
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dena Launches Global Alliance Power Fuels
The Deutsche Energie-Agentur (dena) – the German Energy Agency – and partners from industry have launched the Global Alliance Power Fuels.
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Alpha Completes Record Number of Blade Inspections
Alpha Offshore Service reports it has completing more than 4,000 offshore wind turbine blade inspections to date in 2018, a company record.
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New Service for Offshore Blade Inspections
WTG blade assessments are usually costly and time consuming. EWPL Ocean aggregates tasks and wind turbines in scope for blade…
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Ampelmann Wins Five North Sea Contracts
Offshore access solutions provider Ampelmann said it has won five new contracts for its Walk to Work (W2W) solutions in the…
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Arkona Offshore Wind Farm Comes Online
The Arkona offshore wind farm in the German part of the Baltic Sea has supplied the first electricity into the German electricity…
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NRCAN Grant Triggers Major Investment in the Bay of Fundy
The next wave of tidal energy development at the FORCE facility in the Bay of Fundy Nova Scotia has been triggered by a substantial grant of $29…
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ESVAGT A/S: Working Closely with the Customer Results in High SOV Efficiency
Cooperation between ESVAGT and its customer maximizes uptime and increases operating efficiency in offshore wind farms.Since their launch in 2015…
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DNV GL Launches Operations & Analytics Centre in India
DNV GL, the world’s largest independent energy advisory and certification body, has launched a new Global Operations & Analytics…
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Morrison, iSIMS Introduce iJacket
Chet Morrison Contractors, an energy service company for the oil, gas and renewables industries, has formed a strategic partnership…
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BSM Launches a Offshore Division
In what can be construed as another positive sign for the turnaround of the offshore energy markets, Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement…
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Baltic Eagle Surveys Underway
Fugro has commenced a marine site characterisation programme at Iberdrola’s Baltic Eagle Offshore Wind Farm, in German waters…
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Offshore Wind: Fugro Starts Site Survey in the Baltic
Fugro has commenced a marine site characterization program at Iberdrola’s Baltic Eagle Offshore Wind Farm, in German waters…
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Serbia's First Large-scale Wind Farm to Start in October
Belgian renewable energy firm Elicio NV said on Friday its 42 megawatt (MW) Alibunar wind farm in northern Serbia will start…
Solar
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DNV GL Guidelines for Floating Wind Power
DNV GL, the world’s largest resource of independent energy experts and certification body, has published the revised standard…
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Total adds Solar and Hydro Power Capacity in France
Total subsidiaries have won tenders for 15 French solar power projects and 5 tenders for small-scale hydro power generation units which will add aroun
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Mexican Wave Energy Project Moving Forward
Energy from the ocean breakers that pound Mexico’s Pacific Coast could soon be turned into electricity as an Israeli joint…
Wind
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U.S. Oil Firms Restoring Operations in Storm-tossed Gulf of Mexico
Oil producers on Thursday were checking Gulf of Mexico production platforms and beginning to return crews to more than 90…
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Michael Shuts Nearly 40% of U.S. Gulf of Mexico Oil Output
Nearly 40 percent of daily crude oil production and more than one-third of natural gas output was lost from offshore U.S.
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Storm Shuts Nearly 40% of US GoM Oil Output
Nearly 40 percent of daily crude oil production was lost from offshore U.S. Gulf of Mexico wells on Tuesday due to platform…
Hydro
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Bosnia Adopts Long-Term Energy Strategy Key to Unlocking EU Funds
Bosnia's central government adopted a long-term energy strategy on Wednesday after years of political wrangling between its two regions…
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French Tidal Energy Project Clears another Hurdle
EU competition regulators approved on Thursday French support for an EDF-operated tidal energy project, saying the scheme was in line with the bloc's
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Planning a Wind Farm in Norway? Connecting to Grid from 2019 May Cost You
Grid investments of $17 billion are planned by 2025; big power consumers and producers may need to contribute. A Norwegian…
Biofuels
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Exxon Brazil to Focus on Drilling and Production
Exxon Mobil Corp will focus on drilling and production in Brazil now that it has made extensive acquisitions of oil blocks in the country…
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Exxon Brazil to Focus on Drilling and Production - CEO
Exxon Mobil Corp will focus on drilling and production in Brazil now that it has acquired lots of oil blocks in the country, the company's chief execu
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EPA Scraps Plan to Force US Refiners to Blend More Biofuels
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ditched a detailed plan that would have forced refiners to blend more biofuels into…
