Renewable energy news updates

Digital Catapult, in partnership with the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult and Ørsted, has selected AIM Group and Entopy to adapt and enhance existing digital and AI solutions to strengthen offshore wind operations and maintenance and equipping the UK industry.

U.S. Senators, John Hickenlooper and Steve Daines, have introduced the bipartisan Geo POWER Act to help accelerate geothermal technologies.

Enefit is expanding its energy storage portfolio by building three new BESS next to its wind farms in Lithuania.

Boralex has acquired two onshore wind projects to expand its UK renewable portfolio.

All transition pieces connecting foundations and turbines have been installed at the Baltic Power offshore wind farm.

Minesto’s microgrid scale powerplant, Dragon 4, is installed and producing electricity to the Faroese grid.

Alloy Bearings has joined the International Hydropower Association, bringing decades of expertise in turbine bearing refurbishment and manufacturing to the global hydropower community.

Tree C Technology will be developing a training simulator for Fleeming Jenkin, the world’s largest cable-laying vessel from Jan De Nul.

The Nordex Group has received orders totalling 54 MW from Prowind in Germany.

Fred. Olsen 1848 has completed a pilot installation of four automatic Tension Buoy units at the EDP floating photovoltaic laboratory.

Offshore wind developers have updated a common methodology for calculating the carbon footprint of offshore wind farms.

ANDRITZ has received an order from Tata Power to supply the pumped storage units for the upcoming 1000 MW Bhivpuri pumped storage plant in the state of Maharashtra, India.

VSB has received approval from the Darmstadt Regional Council to build the Pfaffenhausen wind farm with a total capacity of 36 MW.

TERNA, Italy’s national transmission system operator, has approved the grid connection for Airengy’s 3 GWh battery energy storage project in the country.

FutureOn has delivered tools to help offshore wind and low-carbon energy teams make more informed design decisions.

Pennavel has announced the entry of Q ENERGY as a shareholder.

Qair has secured planning consent for the onshore infrastructure of the Ayre offshore wind farm, a 1 GW floating wind project.

The Floating Offshore Wind Power Technology Research Association of Japan and Lloyd's Register have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore technology development co-operation in the field of floating offshore wind.

Capital Dynamics has acquired a solar photovoltaic project in the UK from BayWa r.e.

Thor offshore wind farm has delivered electricity into the Danish grid for the first time.

Nordex Group has received new orders for 137 MW for repowering projects on the island of Fehmarn, Germany.

Elisa Industriq’s energy unit, Gridle, has secured three new grid-scale battery optimisation contracts, totalling 22 MW.

Watson Farley & Williams has advised Nadara on its acquisition of Talveg Wind, a company specialising in O&M services for wind farms.

Norconsult has been appointed as the advisory consultant by Tussa Energi AS for the development of the Tussa II hydropower plant.