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Iberdrola Renovables Creates Global Offshore Wind Division In Glasgow

Iberdrola Renovables creates Offshore Wind Division to be headquartered in Glasgow. The division will develop a major portfolio of offshore wind projects awarded to the Company that totals close to 10,000 MW around the world.
02/03/2010 More »

Mitsubishi Power Systems Europe to Invest in UK Wind Turbine R&D Project

Business Secretary Lord Mandelson and Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband today signed a non binding memorandum of understanding with Mitsubishi Power Systems Europe Ltd. The company intends to invest up to £100 million in an offshore wind turbine project in the UK. This will create up to 200 highly skilled jobs.
25/02/2010 More »

Fluor Secures Solar Power Contract in Spain

Fluor announces that Elecnor S.A. awarded the company an engineering services contract for a new 50 megawatt (MW) concentrating solar power (CSP) plant in Badajoz, Spain.
22/02/2010 More »

UK and India Launch £10 million Collaboration on Solar Energy Solutions and New Research and Networking Opportunities

UK Minister for Business, Innovation and Skills Pat McFadden and Indian Minister for Science and Technology Prithviraj Chavan announce new collaboration while chairing the bilateral India-UK Science and Innovation Council in New Delhi.
16/02/2010 More »

Sweco Acquires Water and Environmental Consultancy in Poland

Sweco Acquires Water and Environmental Consultancy in Poland Hydroprojekt Kraków with 35 employees. The acquisition is a first step in Sweco's establishment in Poland.
12/02/2010 More »

AREVA to Acquire U.S. Solar Company Ausra

AREVA announced today the 100% acquisition of U.S.-based Ausra, a leading provider of large-scale concentrated solar power solutions for electricity generation and industrial steam production. This acquisition launches AREVA's new global solar energy business.
10/02/2010 More »

Technip to Locate its North Sea Offshore Renewables Head Office in Aberdeen

Technip, which already employs around 800 people in Aberdeen, confirms decision as it hosted a round-table meeting with Scotland's First Minister and senior executives of leading French companies involved in renewable energy development at its global headquarters in Paris.
08/02/2010 More »

Veolia's Dalkia to Build Seven New Biomass Plants for Heating Networks

Dalkia selected for seven projects as part of the French government's third call for tenders for combined heating and electrical power plants fired by biomass (Biomass 3). Dalkia is to build, provide with feedstock and operate seven new biomass-fired combined heating and power plants that will supply renewable heat to district heating networks and generate electricity.
03/02/2010 More »

PWP and Project Partners E.ON Secure £4.8m of Funding from the Carbon Trust's Marine Renewable Proving Fund

Pelamis Wave Power and project partners E.ON secure £4.8m of funding from the UK government's Marine Renewable Proving Fund (MRPF). The MRPF is a government initiative managed by the Carbon Trust with funding from the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) created with the intent of supporting the most promising technologies in the marine industry.
03/02/2010 More »

Aker Solutions Confirms GBP115M Power Project is Biomass Renewable Plant in Scotland

Aker Solutions confirms award of power plant project in Europe by RWE, is to provide design, supply, installation, construction and commissioning for new 50MW Biomass renewable energy plant at the Tullis Russell Papermakers plant near Fife in Scotland.
03/02/2010 More »

Hammerfest Strøm and ScottishPower Renewables Closer to Major Tidal Power Project

Hammerfest Strøm UK Ltd, subsidiary of the Norwegian tidal power developer Hammerfest Strøm AS, receives £3.9 million grant from the Carbon Trust for the construction and testing of a 1 MW tidal power device at the European Marine Energy Centre in Orkney.
02/02/2010 More »

Mitsubishi Corporation and Weyerhaeuser to Explore Strategic Biomass-to-Energy Venture

Mitsubishi Corporation and Weyerhaeuser Company announce that the two companies signed a Strategic Memorandum of Understanding to explore the possibilities of collaborating in the biomass-to-energy business.
02/02/2010 More »

British Gas Announces Five Biomethane Demonstration Projects

British Gas to go ahead with five biomethane demonstration projects likely to be the first in the UK to inject green gas into the grid. The announcement follows U.K. Government backing for this emerging technology that confirms support for biomethane to grid from April 2011.
02/02/2010 More »

GE Technology Chosen by DESA and Renova in Brazilian Wind Auction

GE receives commitments to supply wind turbines for wind farms to be developed in Brazil that will add more than 400 megawatts of power to the country's clean energy capacity. These projects will mark the debut of GE's wind turbine technology in Brazil.
28/01/2010 More »

EDP Renovaveis Enters the Italian Wind Market Through the Acquisition of 520 MW Wind Energy Projects

EDP Renovaveis S.A. acquires 85% of Italian Wind srl, from Co-Ver group (an industrial conglomerate from the north of Italy), adding to its portfolio several wind projects in Italy totalling 520 MW in different stages of maturity and in prime locations.
28/01/2010 More »

Duke Energy Acquires First Commercial Solar Power Project

Duke Energy adds solar power to its commercial renewable energy portfolio through the acquisition of a large-scale solar photovoltaic project under development in San Antonio, Texas.
26/01/2010 More »

AMEC Awarded Major Energy Sustainability Agreement by United States Government

AMEC chosen by the United States General Services Administration for blanket purchase agreements on a broad spectrum of energy conservation projects.
25/01/2010 More »

Masdar and E.ON Climate & Renewables establish new Carbon Project Development Joint Venture

Masdar and E.ON today announced an agreement to establish E.ON Masdar Integrated Carbon (EMIC), a joint venture company focused on developing carbon emission reduction projects on the global market.
19/01/2010 More »

Cielo Wind Power Teams with Wood Group GTS for Wind Turbine Services

Wood Group GTS awarded multiple 10-year contracts for operations, maintenance and management services for three wind power generation projects developed and owned by subsidiaries of Cielo Wind Power, LP, of Austin, Texas.
19/01/2010 More »

DuPont to Invest $175 Million in Final Phase of Critical Tedlar® PVF Film Expansion

DuPont announces investment of $175 million to complete the multi-phase expansion of its high-performance DuPont(TM) Tedlar® PV2001 series oriented film production line. This investment is in addition to $120 million in capacity expansions, announced in August 2009, for raw materials used to make the film, bringing the total commitment of these two phases to $295 million.
18/01/2010 More »

Two Wind Farm Schemes Approved in Scotland

Baillie wind farm near Thurso will supply almost 25,000 homes and feed electricity in to the upgraded Beauly-Denny line with an extension to the Rothes wind farm near Elgin approved.
12/01/2010 More »

Total Tackles Climate Change with the Inauguration of Carbon Capture and Storage Demonstration Facility

Total today inaugurated Europe's first end-to-end carbon capture, transportation and storage demonstration facility, in Lacq, southwestern France, at a ceremony attended by Valérie Létard, France's Secretary of State for Green Technology and Climate Negotiations.
11/01/2010 More »

ScottishPower Renewables And Vattenfall To Develop Major Offshore Windfarms Off The Coast Of East Anglia

Crown Estate awards ScottishPower Renewables and Vattenfall the right to develop major offshore wind zone in the North Sea, off the East Anglia coast, with potential to power the equivalent of over 5 million homes annually.
08/01/2010 More »

Scottish and Southern Energy
Round 3 of UK Offshore Wind Farm Development Programme

SSE is a member of two consortia which have been awarded development partner status by The Crown Estate in Round 3 of its UK offshore wind farm development programme. Forewind, formed by SSE, RWE npower renewables, Statoil and Statkraft, awarded development partner status for the 9GW (gigawatts) offshore wind farm proposed for Dogger Bank, 125km from the coast of Yorkshire.
08/01/2010 More »

Centrica Awarded Round Three Offshore Wind Development Zone

Centrica welcome news that it has been successful in The Crown Estate's Round Three offshore wind tendering process, having been awarded exclusive rights to develop the Irish Sea zone. The zone, which is located 15 kilometres off the coast of Anglesey, Wales, and 2,200km2, provides Centrica the potential to develop up to an additional 4.2 gigawatts (GW) of renewable energy.
08/01/2010 More »

Eni Sign Framework Agreement for Scientific Co-operation with Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche

Today, at Eni's office in Rome, the framework agreement between Eni and the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR, the national council of researches) was signed for the start of a strategic co-operation in the field of scientific and technologic research.
21/12/2009 More »

GE Receives $1.4 Billion Contract to Supply Turbines for Largest Wind Farm Ever Built in the US

GE receives $1.4 billion contract from independent power producer Caithness Energy to supply wind turbines and provide services for an 845-megawatt (MW) wind farm project to be located in Oregon.
11/12/2009 More »

Europe's Largest Onshore Windfarm Set To Grow Again - ScottishPower Renewables Receives Consent For A Further 39 Turbines At Whitelee

ScottishPower Renewables today given permission by the Scottish Government to develop a second extension at Whitelee Windfarm, near Glasgow, which will see Europe's largest onshore windfarm add a further 39 turbines, increasing overall capacity up to 593MW.
11/12/2009 More »

Foster Wheeler Announces Strategic Partnership with PetroAlgae to Create End-to-End Biomass-to-Fuel Solutions

Foster Wheeler signs Memorandum of Understanding with PetroAlgae for engineering services to be performed in conjunction with PetroAlgae's micro-crop biomass technology, which allows for the production of dry biomass at a very large scale.
10/12/2009 More »

Scottish and Southern Energy - Joint Venture in Dutch Wind farm Development

Scottish and Southern Energy enter into agreement with DONG Energy to form 50:50 joint venture to take forward development of three offshore wind farms, with a total capacity of just over 1,000MW (megawatts), which SSE has the right to develop in the Dutch sector of the North Sea.
02/12/2009 More »

GE and E.ON Sign Major O&M Deal for US Wind Turbines

GE and E.ON Climate & Renewables (EC&R) North America sign seven-year operation and maintenance (O&M) agreement covering EC&R's complete fleet of 529 GE wind turbines installed in the United States. The O&M deal is one of the largest wind services deals ever signed by GE.
12/11/2009 More »

Wood Group Awarded Design and Project Management Contract on Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm

Wood Group Engineering (North Sea) Ltd awarded design and project management of two offshore substations by AREVA T&D on Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm. The 88-turbine 315 MW (220,000 home potential supply) wind farm is sited just inside the 12-mile territorial limit of Sheringham on the UK's North Norfolk coast.
02/06/2009 More »