14 January 2016
Renewables investor Impax Asset Management has sold its 51% stake in the 24.2MW Ballycadden wind farm in Wexford to the Toronto-based Greystone Infrastructure Fund. In a deal announced this morning, Greystone, one of Canada’s largest institutional money managers, will join a group of minority shareholders on the project. However, the terms of the deal were […]
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14 January 2016
Norway’s energy company, Statkraft, has announced its decision to cancel plans for the construction of a hydropower plant worth USD 1.5 billion in Nepal (€1.38bn). The Oslo-based company said on Tuesday that it made the decision due to bureaucratic hurdles and political instability in the troubled Himalayan nation. Tamakoshi III was planned to be constructed […]
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13 January 2016
German group BayWa AG said yesterday (Tuesday) it had acquired 375 MW of wind energy projects in Germany from Juwi AG, for an undisclosed amount. The deal involves 31 projects, the majority of which are located in North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate. Subsidiary BayWa re renewable energy GmbH will take on their implementation. The projects are […]
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13 January 2016
RenewableUK has appointed Hugh McNeal as its new chief executive, who will take up his new post in April. He takes over from Maria McCaffery, who has headed the organisation since June 2006. McNeal is currently director of change at the Department of Energy and Climate Change, where he is focussed on improving the department’s […]
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13 January 2016
Westar Energy has placed a turbine delivery order with Siemens for the 280MW Western Plains wind power plant in Ford county, in the state of Kansas, US. Financial details of the deal have not been disclosed. Located near Spearville, to around 100 miles west of Hutchinson, the wind farm will be equipped with 122 of […]
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13 January 2016
Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Germany’s RWE Energy Group, to enhance cooperation in innovation, research and development in energy and smart grids, scientific research, and sustainable development. This supports DEWA’s vision to become a sustainable innovative world class utility and its strategy to promote and establish […]
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13 January 2016
According to the Irish Wind Energy Association (IWEA) which has gotten its hands on preliminary figures from a report by the International Energy Agency (IEA), Ireland will soon move up one place in the world wind energy usage rankings to third place overtaking Spain. Despite all the news of Ireland’s bombardment with wind and rain […]
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12 January 2016
Minister for the Environment Alan Kelly has just announced a proposed €650 million hydro-electric plant which will seek to create 400 construction jobs and 50 permanent jobs on a disused mining site in Silvermines North Tipperary. The hydro electric power station project will be the second of its kind in the Republic, along with the […]
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08 January 2016
RWE Supply & Trading is to sell the 420MW Lynemouth power station to EP UK Investments, which is a subsidiary of Energetický a prumyslový holding, a Czech energy group. Lynemouth, a 420MW coal plant in Northumberland, stopped generating in December under environmental rules but is due to be converted to burn wood pellets and reopen […]
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08 January 2016
Siemens has won a contract from Blue Energy to supply 23 SWT-2.3-93 turbines at the 53MW Blackcraig Hill onshore wind farm in Dumfries and Galloway, in Scotland. The contract also includes a 20-year service agreement for the project that is scheduled to be commissioned in the spring of 2017. Blue Energy chief executive Christopher Dean […]
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