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Construction to start on He Dreiht offshore wind project
German power utility EnBW (Energie Baden-Wuerttemberg) has made the final investment decision on its 960-MW He Dreiht wind project in the German North Sea and agreed to sell a 49.9% stake in the scheme.
New offshore wind farms totalling 2 GW for Italy
Italy’s renewable energy company GreenIT and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) are to develop three floating offshore wind projects in Latium and Sardinia.
Work begins on German offshore wind projects
Offshore installation company Jan De Nul has begun work on the transportation and installation (T&I) contract for construction in Germany of Ørsted’s 242-MW Gode Wind 3 and 900-MW Borkum Riffgrund 3 offshore wind farms.
Iraq’s new port to include oil export berths
Iraq’s Parliamentary Oil, Gas and Natural Resources Committee declared this week that the Grand Faw Port project will include six berths dedicated to oil exports as well as product storage capabilities.
Savannah Energy to fight nationalisation of assets in Chad
Savannah Energy, the British independent energy company, has declared its intention to fight a decree nationalising its assets in Chad.
Aussie coal fair game once more for Chinese importers
In scoring a major, but largely ignored, diplomatic victory over China, Australia has reportedly seen all barriers preventing exports of coal to Beijing quietly lifted in recent days.
China launches rural scheme for renewables
China will commence a trial programme to encourage the expansion of renewable energy in remote regions, the National Energy Administration (NEA) has announced.
Spain’s Elecnor begins work on South Australia’s largest wind and solar project
Spain’s Elecnor Group, in a consortium with GE Renewable Energy, has started construction of the first stage of Goyder South wind farm in Australia, which will have 75 turbines capable of producing up to 412 MW of power.
BGC upgrades compressor stations
Iraq’s Basra Gas Co. (BGC) inaugurated the first phase of the Hammar Mishrif Compressor Station (HM CS) last week during a ceremony attended by the country’s Minister of Oil Hayan Abdul-Ghani.
Nigeria takes major step towards boosting power supply with solar-cell factory construction
Honeywell secures $500mn contract to develop Libya’s South Refinery project
US-based energy group Honeywell has secured a deal worth $500mn to implement engineering work on the South Refinery project. The contract was signed with Libya’s Zallaf for Oil and Gas, a subsidiary of the state-owned National Oil Corp.
Romania to increase 2030 renewables target to 34%
Saudi Arabia’s ACWA Power develops major solar and storage projects in Uzbekistan
Saudi energy company ACWA Power has signed three power purchase agreements and investment agreements with Uzbekistan’s National Electric Grid of Uzbekistan (NEGU) and Ministry of Investment, Industry and Trade.
Serbia’s Fintel Energija selects China’s Windey onshore wind project
Chinese manufacturer Zhejiang Windey has signed an agreement with Serbia’s Fintel Energija, a unit of Italy’s Fintel Energia Group, to deliver, assemble and maintain wind turbines for Serbia’s 854-MW Mastrale Ring wind farm.
Investment of Russian hydropower major RusHydro keeps rising
The investment programme of the Russian state-controlled hydropower holding RusHydro will amount to more than RUB650bn ($8.5bn) by 2027, the CEO of the company, Viktor Khmarin, told President Vladimir Putin as cited by Tass.
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