REM - Renewable Energy

13 October 2022

Renewables companies: UK revenue cap could undermine investment

12 October 2022

Investment could shift to the EU if a planned cap on the revenues that renewables projects generate is more punitive that a similar EU policy, renewables companies are warning. This is according to a report in the Financial Times.

UK ministers reportedly planning to ban solar projects on most English farmland

12 October 2022

Ministers in Prime Minister Liz Truss’s Conservative government are planning to broaden a prohibition on solar farms on agricultural land in England, reports the Guardian in an exclusive.

GE to axe 20% of onshore wind workers in US

12 October 2022

Wind turbine manufacturer GE Renewable Energy is laying off thousands of onshore wind workers in an effort to restructure and streamline the business.

Green investment must triple to save climate

12 October 2022

Investments in renewable energy need to triple by 2050 to put the world on a net-zero trajectory by mid-century, according to a new report by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), part of the United Nations.

Copel GeT and InfraRed buy into wind farms in the Americas

12 October 2022

EDP Renováveis has sold 100% of the equity in two operating wind farms in Brazil to Copel Geração e Transmissão. And in North America, InfraRed has purchased operating wind farms in the US and Canada from Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp.

UK Crown Estate refines leasing process for 4 GW of floating wind in Celtic Sea

12 October 2022

The Crown Estate in the UK has updated developers on the design of the upcoming tender process for seabed leasing for floating wind energy in the Celtic Sea off south-west England and south Wales.

World’s largest offshore wind farm may be expanded

12 October 2022

The world’s largest offshore wind farm will be the 3.6-GW Dogger Bank in the UK North Sea. And now the owners are eyeing a fourth phase.

Scottish floating wind farm, the world's largest, to use innovative Stiesdal technology

12 October 2022

The 100-MW Pentland Floating Offshore Wind Farm off the north of Scotland will use Stiesdal Offshore’s TetraSub industrialised floating technology for the foundations.

BP plans to triple its offshore wind farm jobs by end of 2023

11 October 2022

Oil supermajor BP plans to more than triple its offshore wind farm jobs in an effort to achieve its CO2 goals, a company executive has told Bloomberg.

Suncor to offload wind, solar assets in shift in energy transition focus

11 October 2022

Leading oil sands producer Suncor Energy said on October 5 that it had agreed to sell its wind and solar assets to ATCO-owned Canadian Utilities for CAD730mn ($527mn).

Kazakh president bemoans shrinking lake, doesn’t mention China’s take

11 October 2022

Lake Balkhash is fed by the Ili River that originates over the border in China’s Xinjiang region.

Nord Stream leaks: a catastrophe for climate goals

8 October 2022

The explosions in the Nord Stream pipelines in the Baltic Sea are creating an unprecedented climate catastrophe.

South Africa: French renewable energy producer Voltalia to build 148MW solar plant for Richards Bay Minerals in Limpopo

6 October 2022

Richards Bay Minerals (RBM), a unit of Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto, will be the power off-taker of a 148MW solar plant constructed by France’s renewable energy firm Voltalia in South Africa’s Limpopo province, Renewables Now reports.

EPH to invest €10.2bn into renewables in Germany

6 October 2022

The plans mark a major shift in EPH's strategy, which had been to bet that the green transition would take longer than expected.