Renewable energy news updates

DNV has certified the third milestone in accordance with the German Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency standard for Nordseecluster A – a joint offshore wind project of RWE and Norges Bank Investment Management in the German North Sea.

Rolls-Royce Power Systems and Sunly have signed contracts for the construction of four large scale battery storage systems in Latvia with a total capacity of 490 MWh.

Qair has secured financing from BayernLB for its 46.51 MWp Brecks solar farm.

Qualitas Energy has acquired a development-stage solar photovoltaic project in the US, with a planned capacity of 164 MWp.

Fidra Energy has accelerated its UK growth with the acquisition of 1 GW Enderby battery storage project from Innova.

Baseload Capital and Furusato Netsuden have completed the Waita No. 2 geothermal power plant in Kumamoto Prefecture, demonstrating how community-aligned development models could help unlock scalable growth in Japan.

OEG has acquired Hybrid Resource Management Ltd to strengthen its technical services capability and expand its global presence in the growing operations and maintenance wind market.

Forus Oy has selected Elisa Industriq’s Gridle to optimise and operate 15 MW of battery energy storage across two sites in Finland.

Sonnedix has closed a financing of €67 million for the development of four solar photovoltaic projects in Spain and Italy.

R.Power has secured €46 million financing package and advances construction of 127 MW/254 MWh BESS project in Romania.

Merus Power and CATL have signed a strategic co-operation agreement regarding the delivery of approx. 3 GWh of BESS solutions in Nordic Europe.

Installation of all the monopile foundations for Inch Cape offshore wind farm’s wind turbines is complete, marking a major milestone in the flagship Scottish project’s offshore construction.

Aura Power has secured project finance for Preston Hill solar farm in Staffordshire, the UK.

Two bills led by US Senator, Catherine Cortez Masto to promote geothermal energy have been passed by the House of Representatives.

Three new wind turbines have recently started operating as part of RWE’s expansion of its Wiedenfelder Höhe wind farm in Bergheim in the Rhenish lignite area.

R.Power has signed a project finance facility of approximately €64 million for the construction of its 150 MW/300 MWh Jedwabno battery energy storage system in Poland.

The Greencells Group has signed the EPC contract for the 71.3 MWp Carlton solar farm in the UK with Enray Power.

Fugro has secured a two-year environmental services contract with EirGrid to deliver long-term marine mammal monitoring along Ireland’s south coast.

Ammongas, part of European Energy, has signed an agreement to supply a complete biomethane upgrading system for a new biomethane facility located in Spain.

Ecowende has installed its first of 52 wind turbines, approximately 53 km off the coast of IJmuiden.

Glamox has secured a contract from SPIE to supply 1500 specialised connected LED lights for the first Dutch land-based substation in TenneT’s 2 GW programme.

COPEL has awarded ANDRITZ two turnkey contracts for the supply and commissioning of additional generating units at the Foz do Areia and Segredo hydropower plants on the Iguaçu River in Paraná, Brazil.

Siemens Energy has reached an agreement to acquire Camlin Group, a Northern Ireland-based specialist in grid monitoring, analytics, and asset digitalisation technologies.

FairWind has secured its first project with Statkraft to deliver operations and maintenance across two onshore wind farms in Spain.