08/04/2019
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Ilaria Valtimora
Wpd sells Taiwan stake to Japanese group A consortium of Japanese investors has agreed to buy a 27% stake in German developer Wpd's 640MW Yunlin wind project off Taiwan.
The consortium is made up of investment firm Sojitz Corporation, utility Chugoku Electric Power, engineering company Chudenko Corporation, oil company JXTG Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation and utility Shikoku Electric Powe ...
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08/04/2019
Wind Watch
Richard Heap
Is the debate about renewables over? Wind and solar are both on track for serious growth in the next decade, and we see little argument in the energy world that both can play important roles in helping the world to hit ambitious decarbonisation goals.
This feeling was been reinforced by two events that we paid attention to last month.
First, IHS Markit’s CERA Week conference in the US, whe ...
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05/04/2019
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Ilaria Valtimora
Vestas chair expects new subsidies in Europe Some European countries are to reinstate public subsidies to support the growth of wind energy, Vestas chairman Bert Nordberg has said.
Nordberg told Reuters that he is aware of some governments' plans to reinstate subsidies for wind and solar power plants, as they have come under pressure to build renewables capacity quickly to hit European Union ta ...
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05/04/2019
Wind Watch
Ilaria Valtimora
Wind is undergoing a profound transformation. The industry has gone mainstream, which is good, but it also means developers and investors have to find new ways to preserve its growth and their profits.
This is one of the main findings of the Global Wind Energy Council’s Global Wind Report that launched at the WindEurope 2019 conference in Bilbao last Wednesday.
The report shows that 51.3GW ...
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03/04/2019
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Ilaria Valtimora
Brexit stockpiling begins for UK wind giants UK renewable energy giants are taking steps to deal with short-term risks of a no-deal Brexit scenario, including stockpiling vital parts.
Siemens Gamesa's UK managing director Clark MacFarlane and Scottish Power Renewables director of policy and regulation Hazel Gulliver told attendees at the WindEurope conference yesterday that both companies have ...
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01/04/2019
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Ilaria Valtimora
Enercon seeks partners for 844MW Maximus Enercon is seeking co-investors for the 844MW Maximus project in northern Sweden, which was formerly called Markbygden 2.
The German firm has started building the scheme, which is set to be made up of 201 of its 4.2MW turbines, in the region of Piteå. Enercon
managing director Hans-Dieter Kettwig has said that the firm is now ready to "market the proj ...
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01/04/2019
Wind Watch
Ilaria Valtimora
The US is set to be the next big market for offshore wind. But how big? Despite the huge commitment shown by states along the US east coast over the past couple of years, uncertainty remains around the timing and pace of the market’s growth.
To answer this the University of Delaware’s Special Initiative on Offshore Wind published a report, in association with the Renewables Consulting Group, l ...
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29/03/2019
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Ilaria Valtimora
Enel and GIG carve up 13GW Tradewind Italian utility Enel has agreed to buy US developer Tradewind and sell on its solar and storage projects to the Green Investment Group.
Tradewind owns 13GW of wind, solar and storage projects. Enel Green Power North America has committed to buy Tradewind, and also to sell its 6GW solar and storage unit Savion to Macquarie's Green Investment Group. Enel is se ...
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29/03/2019
Wind Watch
Richard Heap
This week, Italian utility Enel announced that its US subsidiary Enel Green Power North America has agreed to buy independent developer Tradewind Energy. The Kansas company has been a long-time development partner of Enel in the US, so the pair know each other well. If any utility was to buy Tradewind, it was Enel.
The interesting element for us, though, is what and whom Enel plans to let go.
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27/03/2019
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Ilaria Valtimora
EDF goes offshore in China with 500MW deal French utility EDF has entered the Chinese offshore wind market by buying an undisclosed stake in two projects totalling 500MW.
EDF has agreed to buy an interest in the Dongtai 4 and 5 projects off the coast of Jiangsu province from local utility China Energy Investment. The schemes are due to have a combined capacity of 500MW. Dongtai 4 is currently b ...
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