Renewable energy news updates

Dales Marine Services has signed a lease agreement for a new operations space in Montrose Port.

RWE has been awarded three new agrivoltaic projects with a total capacity of 30.2 MWac in the Italian Resilience and Recovery Plan auction.

The first offshore wind nacelles, manufactured in Poland, have been installed at the Baltic Power offshore wind farm.

Velto Renewables has completed its acquisition and has begun operations at the Les Îlots Blandin floating solar plant in Haute-Marne.

Nexans has marked a major milestone with the hull launch of a new cable laying vessel from the dock hall at Ulstein Verft, Norway.

Ørsted has announced the establishment of its new technology platform Osonic, having signed a preferred supplier agreement with Luxcara.

Associated British Ports has teamed up with BrestPort and Shannon Foynes Port to establish the first Global Floating Offshore Wind Ports Alliance to help bring together major floating offshore wind ports across the world.

DLA Piper has advised Société Générale S.A. as mandated lead arranger and lender on the financing of Nala Renewable’s 50 MW BESS project.

Greencells and ESB have expanded the Irish Drombeg solar farm to 136.88 MWp.

GEN-I and SUNOTEC have joined forces in the field of battery energy storage projects.

Foundations for one of the world’s only large scale mooring line test rigs will soon be laid at ORE Catapult’s Floating Wind Innovation Centre in Aberdeen, Scotland.

The Norfund-managed Climate Investment Fund’s investment of US$75 million in Mulilo is expected to further advance the ongoing rapid development of the renewable energy sector in South Africa.

Voltalia has announced the first megawatt-hours of its 126 MW solar power plant located in Sarimay, in the Khorezm region of Uzbekistan.

The Solar Stewardship Initiative and the Global Wind Energy Council have signed a memorandum of understanding to drive sustainability, transparency, and resilience across the solar and wind energy industries’ supply chains.

With the launch of the UK's Contracts for Difference Allocation Round 7, strategic recalibrations compared to past auctions could deliver stability to the offshore wind market amid an intense political and economic battleground over net-zero targets and public spending, according to Wood Mackenzie.

R.Power S.A. has finalised two strategic transactions with Eiffel Investment Group, covering 92 MWp of photovoltaic assets in Poland and 127 MW/254 MWh of battery energy storage systems in Romania.

Eneco has chosen Deutsche Windtechnik as its new maintenance partner for the Prinses Amalia wind park in the Dutch North Sea.

Researchers from the University of Leeds working at the UK Geoenergy Observatory in Cheshire have shown that distributed acoustic sensing has the potential to detect subsurface temperature change during geothermal experiments.

Iberdrola Australia has been selected as a strategic partner to develop the Victoria to New South Wales Interconnector West transmission project in Australia.

Hive Energy has secured new funding support from HSBC UK to accelerate its international clean energy operations.

RWE has completed the installation of the foundations for the 1.1 GW Thor offshore wind farm in the Danish North Sea.

LEAG Clean Power GmbH and Fluence Energy GmbH will build Europe’s largest battery energy storage system, a 1 GW/4 GWh system in Jänschwalde, Germany.

Baseload Power Taiwan has opened its local office in the Hongye Tribe, Hualien County, and signed a memorandum of understanding to formalise the co-operation.

Eauclaire Tidal and Orbital Marine Power have secured a further 12.5 MW of marine energy licenses from the Province of Nova Scotia for tidal stream energy deployments at the Fundy Ocean Research Centre for Energy in, Nova Scotia, Canada.