Lidl and Kaufland, the retail divisions of the German Schwarz Group, have signed a long-term power purchase agreement (PPA) with RWE Supply & Trading for the Kaskasi offshore wind farm, located in the German North Sea. Under the ten-year agreement, Lidl and Kaufland will be offtaking approximately 2
Dublin-based floating wind technology company Gazelle Wind Power (Gazelle) has partnered with the Portuguese renewable energy developer WAM Horizon to accelerate the development of a pilot project in Aguçadoura, Portugal, which will use Gazelle’s floating wind platform. Within the partnership, WAM w
SSE Renewables and Equis Development, a Singapore-based renewable energy developer, have established a 50/50 consortium for offshore wind development in Australia, where they now plan to submit a bid for a feasibility license for an offshore wind farm project in Gippsland. In a press release issued
GE and Siemens Gamesa have resolved their wind turbine technology patent disputes ”in their entirety”, GE said in a statement. ”GE and SGRE have reached an amicable settlement of all their wind turbine technology patent disputes in the United States and Europe on confidential terms and have granted
RWE and US utility Entergy have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly evaluate developing offshore wind in the Gulf of Mexico. Under the MoU, RWE and Entergy agree to assess four key areas to define an optimal route-to-market including the market demand for carbon-free energy for cus
Vestas has signed a preferred supplier agreement for a floating offshore wind project in South Korea, the wind turbine manufacturer announced on 31 March, leaving the project and its client unnamed. Under the agreement, if the project moves forward, Vestas will supply and install 33 units of its V23
Ørsted has taken the final investment decision (FID) on the 920 MW Greater Changhua 2b and 4 offshore wind farms in Taiwan, moving them into the construction stage. Onshore work and fabrication of components will start this year and the project construction is scheduled to be completed by the end of
Iberdrola has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Mercedes-Benz for its new offshore wind farm Windanker in the German part of the Baltic Sea. With the PPA, Mercedes-Benz Group has secured more than 140 MW of Windanker’s total planned capacity of up to 315 MW for its sites in Germany from 2
Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), through its New Markets Fund, has signed 25-year Offshore Wind Service Contracts with the Philippines’ Department of Energy (DOE) for three offshore wind farms totalling 2 GW in capacity. The contracts make CIP the first company to venture on a 100 per cent
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected nine floating wind foundation projects in Phase One of the FLoating Offshore Wind ReadINess (FLOWIN) Prize. Each project will receive USD 100,000 in funding and USD 75,000 in vouchers for technical support provided by DOE national laboratories. Skip to:
Iberdrola and Amazon have announced a new global collaboration to support the development of large-scale renewable energy projects and leverage cloud computing technology to enhance digitalisation in the energy transition. Iberdrola and Amazon.com Inc. have agreed to collaborate on new wind and sola
Leading Light Wind, the American-led offshore wind project in the New York Bight, has announced three initiatives to establish Staten Island as a hub for the American offshore wind industry. The first initiative is a USD 900,000 partnership with CUNY College of Staten Island to develop the next gene
EnBW has made the final investment decision (FID) for the He Dreiht offshore wind project in the German North Sea, clearing the way for the start of construction of the company’s largest offshore wind farm to date, with an installed capacity of 960 MW. EnBW secured the contract in 2017 in the first
