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Angela Merkel and Kjell Børge Freiberg opened Arkona offshore wind farm

Angela Merkel and Kjell Børge Freiberg opened Arkona offshore wind farm   Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel and Norwegian petroleum and energy minister Kjell-Børge Freiberg opened the Arkona offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea in Mukran on the German island of Rügen today.  Arkona is operated by the Germany company E.ON in collaboration with Equinor, and the formal opening of the project was hosted by the Germany company. Equinor’s chair of the boar...

Siemens bags construction order for 1.3GW GNA 1 LNG-to-Power project

Siemens bags construction order for 1.3GW GNA 1 LNG-to-Power project   Siemens has bagged an order for the turnkey construction of a 1.3GW combined cycle power plant for the integrated LNG-to-Power project GNA 1 owned by Gás Natural Açu in Brazil. The GNA 1 LNG-to-Power project is being built in the Port of Açu in Rio de Janeiro state by Gás Natural Açu, which is a joint venture between Siemens, BP and Brazil logistics company Prumo Logísti...

Renewable energy now accounts for one third of the world’s capacity

Renewable energy now accounts for one third of the world’s capacity   Renewable energy now forms one-third of the world’s total energy capacity, according to a new report by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). The agency found that 171GW of renewable energy was added to the global system in 2018, with an annual increase of 7.9%. Two-thirds of new power generation capacity added in 2018 came from renewables. Renewable energy now stands at 2,351GW, with...

Are Norway's fuel giants serious about committing to renewable energy?

Are Norway's fuel giants serious about committing to renewable energy?   Norway's economy and wealth is built on the oil and gas sector, making it vulnerable to falling oil prices and a global shift from fossil fuels to renewable energies. Windpower Monthly looks at how state-owned Equinor and Statkraft are responding -- are they truly diversifying or just paying lip service? The move away from fossil fuels gained an unlikely supporter when the Norwegian government announce...

Shell powers into UK retail market in bid to become biggest energy firm

Shell powers into UK retail market in bid to become biggest energy firm   Royal Dutch Shell took a step forward in its aim to become the world’s biggest power company, with an aggressive move into the UK retail market, offering one of the cheapest tariffs available. Shell Energy, formerly known as First Utility, said on Monday it had a fixed rate power-supply tariff for UK customers of about £970 a year, or about £81 pounds a month until July 2020. The move is par...

BP has 'dramatically reduced' oil and gas exploration, executive claims

BP has 'dramatically reduced' oil and gas exploration, executive claims   Dominic Emery, VP for strategic planning at BP, suggests sizeable chunk of firm's existing oil and gas resources could remain in the ground as it invests in new business models BP has "dramatically" reduced its oil and gas exploration activity in recent years, and a sizeable amount of its existing fossil fuel reserves may never come out of the ground, a key figure in charge of developing...

Oil giant Eni targets net-zero carbon emissions by 2030

Oil giant Eni targets net-zero carbon emissions by 2030   Italian oil and gas group Eni has pledged to reach net-zero carbon emissions for its operations by 2030, despite announcing plans to increase oil and gas production by 3.5% annually up to 2022. Eni’s net-zero carbon pledge is part of an upstream business transformation to align to the targets of the Paris Agreement, according to the company’s chief executive Claudio Descalzi. To meet this ambition, upwards of...

Old National Grid site to be turned into UK’s biggest petroleum gas storage centre

Old National Grid site to be turned into UK’s biggest petroleum gas storage centre   The old National Grid facility at Avonmouth is being turned into the biggest petroleum gas storage centre in the UK. Liquid petroleum gas (LPG) supplier Flogas Britain has been granted planning permission by Gloucestershire County Council to convert the site into a storage facility. The company will store 34,564 tonnes of LPG at the site, which will be the largest of its kind in the UK....

DOE awards $6 million in wind energy research projects

DOE awards $6 million in wind energy research projects   The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) selected nine projects totaling $6.2 million that will reduce environmental compliance costs and environmental impacts of land-based and offshore wind energy. Funded by the DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s Wind Energy Technologies Office, these early-stage research projects are key to development of wind energy as part of DOE’s “all-of-the-above&rdquo...

Wood Group to install Siemens turbine in North Carolina

Wood Group to install Siemens turbine in North Carolina   Wood Group has secured a contract from Siemens to install a new Siemens HL-class gas turbine at a power generating station in North Carolina, it announced on Thursday. The FTSE 100 company said the award would see it mobilise a team of around 400 people to the project site to deliver the “notable” construction project, for a period of approximately 11 months. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed....

North East offshore wind cluster ready to deliver on Sector Deal, says Energi Coast

North East offshore wind cluster ready to deliver on Sector Deal, says Energi Coast   Energi Coast, North East England’s offshore wind cluster, has declared the region’s supply chain ‘fit and ready’ to support the growth of the industry following the announcement of the Sector Deal for the offshore wind industry. The North East has been instrumental in the development of the offshore wind industry since its inception and developed a diverse cluster of innova...

ScottishPower pledges £2bn for UK renewable energy in 2019

ScottishPower pledges £2bn for UK renewable energy in 2019   ScottishPower has pledged to invest up to £2 billion in renewable energy projects in the UK this year. It is said to be the Big Six supplier’s biggest ever investment in the country in a single year and follows its commitment to transition to 100% renewable energy. The company is to spend £6 billion in total in the UK between 2018 and 2022, out of which 40% will be invested in renewable generati...

Total oil plans to buy wind farm

Total oil plans to buy wind farm   The French oil giant Total has announced today that they are to buy a new wind farm in the English Channel. Total has joined forces with Denmark’s Orsted and Belgium Elicio to create a “solid foundation.” The wind farm will be able to power 1% of the UK’s energy. Total’s head of gas and renewables and power said, “By contributing to the lighter weight of vehicles, plastics improve their energy efficiency and...

Total, Ørsted, Elicio to bid together in Dunkirk offshore wind tender

Total, Ørsted, Elicio to bid together in Dunkirk offshore wind tender   Danish offshore wind major Ørsted A/S and French oil and gas giant Total are joining Belgium's Elicio to bid as an industrial consortium in the Dunkirk offshore wind tender. The partners will submit a joint bid for a park of up to 600 MW off the coast of Dunkirk, northern France, Total said today. Elicio has been preselected by the French Energy Regulatory Commission to compete in the tende...

Natural Gas and Renewable Energy to Continue Leading the Market

Natural Gas and Renewable Energy to Continue Leading the Market   Cheap natural gas and social pressure to reduce carbon emissions give gas-fired power plants and renewable energy resources a competitive advantage over traditional coal and nuclear generation. Energy storage continues to gain traction as costs decrease and technology evolves. The more things change, the more they stay the same—at least that’s how it’s been for the U.S. power industry in recent year...

Renewables posted record share of UK power in Q3 2018

Renewables posted record share of UK power in Q3 2018   Renewables provided almost one-third of the UK’s total power output in Q3 2018, a record high for that period of the year, boosted by the summer’s heatwave and high wind speeds. That performance also lifted the total share of power from low carbon sources to 56%, another record high for Q3, however this was also aided by a reduction in total power output to 75.3TWh. Furthermore, it was the second successive quar...
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