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German solar developer and installer Goldbeck Solar GmbH and solar cells and modules maker DAS Solar will jointly build a 145-MW ground-mounted solar farm in the Netherlands. The Solar Project Swan will be located near Schiphol Airport. The project, owned by Energy Solutions Group, is touted as one of the largest solar installations to date in t...

Greenvolt Next has switched on a 1.17-MWp solar system for Teixeira Duarte at the conglomerate's operational hub in the city of Montijo in southern Portugal. The distributed generation (DG) arm of Portuguese renewables developer and power producer Greenvolt - Energias Renovaveis SA announced the completion of the project on Thursday, saying tha...

Germany-based energy service provider Meistro Energie GmbH, solar developer and installer ISM Group and agricultural group Wimex have teamed up to build a solar power plant with a targeted capacity of 126 MWp. The planned facility will be built in the village of Reppichau in the district of Anhalt-Bitterfeld in Saxony-Anhalt. A large portion ...

EDF Renewables Ireland and retailer Circle K have signed a new CPPA to offtake energy from the former's solar farms. Under the terms of the deal, three EDF Renewables Ireland projects in Wexford and Kilkenny will power all 168 sites within Circle K’s company owned network from October 2024, with the agreement to last until 2036. With a combi...

The Italian branch of the South African multinational group Sasol has formalised an agreement with GreenGo for the supply of green electricity for its Italian industrial sites in Augusta, Sarroch and Terranova. The agreement, which is pay-as-produced, will see GreenGo supply electricity from five photovoltaic plants in three Italian regions for ...

Vestas has secured an 81MW order from Invenergy for the wind energy project Pencloe in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Under the agreement, Vestas will deliver 18 V136-4.5MW turbines, and the order includes supply, delivery, installation, and commissioning of the machines. Upon completion, Vestas will service the hardware under a multi-year ...

Vestas and LEAG have agreed a 105MW order for the wind energy project 'Forst-Briesnig 2’, in Lausitz, Germany. The deal will see Vestas deliver 17 V162-6.2MW turbines, and the order includes supply, delivery, and commissioning of the devices. Upon completion, the machines will be serviced by Vestas under a 20-year Active Output Management 500...

Vestas has received a 114MW order from SAB WindTeam for the wind energy project Ahlum-Dettum in Lower Saxony, Germany. The turbine manufacturer will deliver 17 V162-6.2MW and two V136-4.2MW wind turbines, and the order includes supply, delivery, and commissioning of the turbines. Upon completion, Vestas will service the turbines under a 25-ye...

Volkswagen Group plans to develop three plug-in hybrids and two full-electric vehicles in China with local partner SAIC. Under an agreement the two companies signed June 27, the five electrified models will go on sale from 2026 through 2030, SAIC said, without disclosing what brands the new models will fall under. The move represents the late...

The U.S. dollar edged higher in early European trade Friday, on course for its second straight quarterly gain, the euro slipped and the Japanese yen remained on intervention watch. At 04:00 ET (09:00 GMT), the Dollar Index, which tracks the greenback against a basket of six other currencies, traded 0.1% higher at 105.705, on course for a 1.5% ri...

The terminal, in the state of Lower Saxony, will have capacity of 13bcm/year when it becomes operational. But while the project was officially set for completion in 2027, HEH was recently granted a two-year extension of the building permit until 2029, as Montel reported. German energy companies ENBW and Sefe have already booked 6bcm and 5bcm...

“An onshore technical solution provides comparable stability of the interconnected systems and can be considered to perform at least at the same level or better than the offshore interconnector,” said Litgrid, quoting the findings of the report by Poland’s Institute of Power Engineering, commissioned by Polish TSO PSE, Latvia’s AST, Estonia’s Eleri...

Spain's Repsol is in talks to merge its UK North Sea oil and gas business with private equity-backed NEO Energy, three industry sources said, the latest consolidation effort by companies that operate in the basin amid greater tax pressures. A merger would create a company with output of more than 110,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day, makin...

Germany has agreed to form a climate and energy alliance with Morocco to support renewable energy expansion and hydrogen production in the north African country, the development ministry said on Friday. Germany is seeking to expand its reliance on hydrogen as a future energy source to cut greenhouse emissions for highly polluting industrial sect...