27/09/2019
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Richard Heap
AMERICAN GIANTS UNLEASH FLURRY OF GIANT POWER PURCHASE AGREEMENTS by Richard Heap
What’s the secret of the perfect press announcement? Timing.
That’s the only explanation we can find for the slew of announcements about huge corporate power purchase agreements that have landed in the last week. All of this has surely been timed to coincide with the United Nations Climate Action Summit, which ...
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25/09/2019
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Richard Heap
BEATRICE PARTNERS PICK PIONEERING PILING PROTOCOL TO PROTECT PORPOISES by Ilaria Valtimora
We are set to host our inaugural European Wind Investment Awards on 31st October. Before the event, we're looking at the companies shortlisted in our Innovation Award category, and how they could influence the industry. In this edition, we look at how a piling mitigation protocol used by SSE Renewables, ...
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23/09/2019
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Richard Heap
BRITAIN SETS NEW OFFSHORE WIND BENCHMARK by Richard Heap
As protestors woke up and gathered their placards for Friday’s climate strike, the UK government was setting a new marker for its own action on carbon.
On Friday, the UK revealed the winners of its latest Contracts for Difference tender round, which included six winning offshore wind projects of 5.5GW.
This was just a day after the ...
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20/09/2019
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Richard Heap
IT’S TIME FOR WIND TO SPEAK UP ON SF6 PROGRESS by Richard Heap
Companies in the energy industry are emitting ‘the most powerful greenhouse gas known to man’. That is the thrust of a headline-grabbing story on the BBC last week about sulphur hexafluoride, or SF6. This chemical is a risk to us all.
However, for people working in renewables, the risk is greater than most.
Firms in the wind ...
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18/09/2019
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Richard Heap
IRELAND SHIFTS TAX RULES TO ATTRACT RENEWABLES INVESTORS by Ray O'Neill, CEO, Fincovi
Competition in the market is driving top quartile renewable energy funds to look at domiciling their assets in Ireland.
The revision of the Irish Investment Limited Partnership (ILP) laws, as outlined in the draft bill published in June 2019, has already caught the attention of fund managers who are seriou ...
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16/09/2019
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Ilaria Valtimora
ARE US WIND AND SOLAR NOW FRENEMIES?by Richard Heap
When I was young I had a friend called Sarah. We played together at primary school and, at that point, decided that we were definitely going to get married.
It was great. But then we got older. We grew up, grew apart, and realised we didn’t have anything in common at all. Worse, we realised we didn’t really like each other. Hated each othe ...
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13/09/2019
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Richard Heap
HUSUM WIND: POLITICIANS MUST HELP GERMAN WIND ON ROAD TO RECOVERYby Richard Heap
It still raises a smile to think about the time two years ago when parts of the Husum Wind trade show in Germany were evacuated due to too much wind.
This year’s event, held this week, has passed off without major meteorological incident. That’s the good news. The bad news is there’s been a storm raging inside ...
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11/09/2019
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Richard Heap
ANALYSISFLOATING OUR BOAT: PRINCIPLE POWER ON FLOATING TURBINE FOUNDATIONSby Richard Heap
We are set to host our inaugural European Wind Investment Awards on 31st October. Before the event, we're looking at the companies shortlisted in our Innovation Award category, and how they could influence the industry. In this edition, we look at Principle Power and its WindFloat floating foundation.
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09/09/2019
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Richard Heap
CHINESE CHANGES PAVE WAY FOR EXPANSIONby Richard Heap
It looks like the Chinese wind industry is on the cusp of two booms.
It might seem odd to say that about a country with wind farms totalling over 200GW – more than Germany, India and the US combined – but the Chinese government has been making moves to support more wind farms onshore and offshore. Fitch Solutions has said the market coul ...
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06/09/2019
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Richard Heap
MARGINAL GAINS: ZX TM LIDAR PROGRAMME PROMISES TO HELP INVESTORSby Ilaria Valtimora
We are set to host our inaugural European Wind Investment Awards on 31st October. Before the event, we're looking at the companies shortlisted in our Innovation Award category, and how they could influence the industry. In this edition, we look at the ZX TM programme by Natural Power and ZX Lidars.
What ...
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