Other renewables

Rivtide Power has been awarded a £100 000 SMART: SCOTLAND feasibility study grant by Scottish Enterprise to further develop its tidal energy technology.

GreenFire Energy Inc. has partnered with Stoic Transitional Resources Inc. to jointly develop geothermal energy by breathing new life into underutilised and abandoned assets to produce geothermal energy in New Zealand and Western Canada.

The province of Newfoundland and Labrador have announced the approval of World Energy GH2’s Crown land applications for Project Nujio’qonik.

The Marine Energy Council (MEC) has welcomed the recent news that 11 tidal stream projects have secured contracts in the government’s latest renewable auction.

Geothermal Engineering ltd, a UK-based developer and operator of geothermal plants, together with its investors Kerogen Capital and Thrive Renewables, announces that it has been awarded Contracts for Difference in the UK Allocation Round 5 process for three projects.

Lhyfe, one of the world’s pioneers in green and renewable hydrogen production, and VSB Energies Nouvelles, an independent producer of electricity from renewable energy, are announcing the signing of a long-term renewable electricity supply contract or Corporate PPA.

Yokogawa Electric Corporation has announced that its subsidiary Yokogawa Australia has received an order from Monford Group Pty ltd to supply an energy management system for the initial phase of the Yuri Green Hydrogen Project which is constructing an industrial-scale renewable hydrogen production complex in Australia.

GE Vernova’s Hydro Power business has been selected by Manitoba Hydro to replace the Unit-4 Kaplan runner at the 479 MW Grand Rapids Generating Station located in Canada.

PannErgy has been awarded a grant for the drilling of a third production well for the Miskolc geothermal heating plant in Hungary.

Following a 14-month independent evaluation, the Hydropower Sustainability Council has awarded Hydro-Québec’s Eastmain-1 development with the highest-level certification under the Hydropower Sustainability Standard, which impartially assesses and rates hydroelectric projects for their sustainability performance.

ACCIONA Energía will work with the state-owned energy entities of Aruba to develop, construct, and operate a green hydrogen plant powered by a self-consumption renewable energy project.

Star Energy has acquired 51% of the issued share capital of A14 Energy Ltd, a Croatian geothermal development company.

Sikkim Power Development Corporation Ltd is the latest member to join the International Hydropower Association, and the sole representative from India, with many others to follow.

Aker Solutions Subsea and Mocean Energy will explore low-carbon solutions that increase the lifetime of brownfield energy infrastructure by using locally generated ocean power to tie-back stranded reservoirs.

GE Vernova has been selected by Yangtze Power to upgrade the Xiangjiaba Hydropower Plant in China.