Europe and Ireland take up large-scale wind power as energy costs soar
GreenBiz
JULY 6, 2022
Russia’s war in Ukraine has supercharged the move to wind and solar energy in Ireland and Europe.
Europe’s largest battery powers up in Blackhillock, in Moray
Envirotec Magazine
MARCH 15, 2025
Zenob, an owner and operator of grid-scale batteries on the GB transmission network, has announced that Europes largest battery site, located in Blackhillock, Scotland, has begun commercial operations. million tonnes of CO from entering the atmosphere during this period by integrating more wind power onto the transmission network.”
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Wind power meets and beats Denmark’s total electricity demand – two days in a row
Renew Economy
JUNE 1, 2022
Windy conditions in northern Europe provided more than 100% of Denmark’s electricity consumption for two days in a row in May. The post Wind power meets and beats Denmark’s total electricity demand – two days in a row appeared first on RenewEconomy.
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Discover the Top Ten Clean Technolgy Trends in 2024
GreenBiz
MAY 9, 2024
With solar and wind power projected to account for nearly 50% of capacity and 30% of electricity generation in Europe by 2025, staying informed about these rapidly growing sectors is crucial. Discover the top cleantech trends in 2024!
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Electricity prices across Europe to stabilize if 2030 targets for renewable energy are met, study suggests
Science Daily: Renewable Energy
FEBRUARY 3, 2025
National targets for solar and wind power will see reliance on natural gas plummet, reducing electricity price volatility across Europe, with major beneficiaries including the UK and Ireland, the Nordics, and the Netherlands.
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It’s Official: In 2020, Renewable Energy Beat Fossil Fuels Across Europe
Forbes Green Tech
JANUARY 25, 2021
The results are in: last year, for the first time, renewables generated more electricity than fossil fuels across the EU, spurred on by new solar and wind power projects.
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How Should Europe Decarbonize? Depends Who You Ask
GreenTechMedia
JULY 29, 2020
Shell's much-discussed Sky scenario from 2018, which charts a path to meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement, forecasts nuclear and fossil fuels each accounting for roughly 11 percent of Europe's mix in 2050. Bradley noted that different countries and regions will see very different technology mixes.
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INEOS agrees the largest ever industrial wind power purchase contract in Belgium with ENGIE
altenergymag
SEPTEMBER 22, 2020
ENGIE supplies renewable energy to INEOS from the Norther offshore windfarm in the North Sea from 1st January 2021 • Gerd Franken Chairman INEOS Olefins & Polymers Europe said: “This significant deal, will reduce our carbon footprint in Belgium by more than one million tonnes of CO2, the equivalent of taking 100,000 cars off the road each year.
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Europe greenwashing with north Africa’s renewable energy, report says
The Guardian: Energy
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
Both Morocco and Egypt are aiming to leverage their strategic locations south of the Mediterranean, and their solar and wind power potential, to position themselves as pivotal to Europes quest to diversify its energy supply. Continue reading.
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Could wind power the green recovery?
Business Green
AUGUST 5, 2020
But few sectors can lay as strong a claim for playing a central and strategic role in any recovery, as the renewables industry in general and the wind power sector in particular. Furthermore, 1GW of offshore wind power avoids 3.5 But wind remained resilient. Our turbines produced a record amount of electricity.
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Europe’s Latest Supergrid Plan Could Slash Offshore Wind Transmission Costs
GreenTechMedia
AUGUST 20, 2020
Eddie O’Connor is pushing for a new grid infrastructure to link Europe’s wind and solar resource centers. The group, working for an Irish company called SuperNode, is looking to develop superconducting cable systems that will be able to collect offshore wind efficiently and export it to load centers across Europe.
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£147 million deal will double Scottish energy storage capacity
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 25, 2024
The battery, said to be strategically placed to harness Scotland’s abundant wind generation from offshore wind farms, was the first of Zenobē’s portfolio of projects in Scotland to go live and the first to connect directly onto the Scottish transmission network.
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Shetland wind power set to reach UK mainland via new HVDC link
Business Green
AUGUST 3, 2020
A major renewable energy infrastructure project is to bring wind power from Shetland to the UK mainland via Europe's first multi-terminal high-voltage direct-current (HVDC) interconnection, the firms behind the development announced yesterday. Major milestone reached for pioneering green grid project.
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Comment: Offshore wind needs to increase by 265% to meet govt targets
Envirotec Magazine
JUNE 15, 2023
To mark Global Wind Day 2023 on June 15, ABB – which describes itself as the largest supplier of electrical components to the wind industry around the world – discusses the measures needed to achieve the UK’s goals in relation to offshore wind power. This load factor = 0.402.
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South Korean Firm Touts Novel Vertical-Axis Wind Turbine Tower Concept
GreenTechMedia
NOVEMBER 12, 2020
Although this cost could likely be reduced by building taller towers or through the serial production of tower components, it remains high compared to traditional onshore wind. Lazard’s latest LCOE study, published in October, puts onshore wind LCOEs in a range from $26 to $54 per megawatt-hour.
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NortH2: Shell unveils plans for 'Europe's largest green hydrogen project'
Business Green
FEBRUARY 28, 2020
Shell, Gasunie, and Groningen Seaports launch ambitious plans to build green hydrogen hub for northern Europe. A new consortium has this week unveiled ambitious plans to build Europe's largest green hydrogen production 'mega-facility', which would source offshore wind power to produce zero emission hydrogen at a new site on the Dutch coast.
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'Nothing short of staggering': Global offshore wind power pipeline 'doubles in a year'
Business Green
JUNE 21, 2022
Overall, Europe boasts an offshore wind pipeline of 350GW, with 26GW fully operational, while the pipeline in countries outside Europe stands at 496GW. Australia, Italy, the USA and Finland also have significant floating wind pipelines, the data shows.
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Nestlé UK bags 15-year wind power purchase agreement with Ørsted
Business Green
APRIL 27, 2020
The 125GWh deal, which comes into effect from 1 May, will cover half of the food and beverage giant's power consumption in the UK and should ensure that, once combined with other deals, all the firm's electricity consumption is covered by wind power generation, backed by certificates.
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Could green hydrogen be key to a carbon-free economy?
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 19, 2020
Europe, which has an economy saddled with high energy prices and is heavily dependent on Russian natural gas, is embracing green hydrogen by providing funding for construction of electrolysis plants and other hydrogen infrastructure. Across Europe, the Middle East and Asia, more countries and companies are embracing this high-quality fuel.
Over 60GW of wind energy capacity installed in 2019, the second-biggest year in history
Envirotec Magazine
MARCH 30, 2020
The Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) has published the 15th edition of The Global Wind Report , described as the wind industry’s flagship publication which provides a comprehensive, global view of the sector through the latest market data, country profiles, trends and analysis.
New Climate Targets Will Require Europe to Double the Pace of Renewables Deployment
GreenTechMedia
JANUARY 26, 2021
Coal power slumped by 20 percent year-on-year while solar and wind power grew 15 percent and 9 percent, respectively. SolarPower Europe tracked 18.2 European Union countries generated more electricity from renewables than from coal and gas for the first time ever in 2020, according to a report released Monday.
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Green Hydrogen Takes Center Stage in Schweinfurt – Here’s What It Means for Mobility
Hydrogen Fuel News
MARCH 4, 2025
Positioned close to the SuedLink high-voltage direct current grid connection, the plant will leverage renewable wind power from northern Germany and offshore installations as a primary energy source. This versatility makes hydrogen one of the most valuable tools for meeting Europes ambitious carbon neutrality targets by 2050.
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Could wind power's economic benefits have been underestimated?
Business Green
OCTOBER 18, 2020
The study is part of an ongoing £2.75m research programme attached to the offshore wind project that is exploring the impacts of offshore wind power installations on local economic ecosystems and communities. It estimates every wind turbine in Europe generates on average of €10m of economic activity.
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Winds of change drove series of energy records in Europe throughout 2020
Business Green
JANUARY 19, 2021
Wind farms delivered their highest ever contribution to Europe's power mix as conventional coal and gas energy fell to a record low in Britain, according to new analysis from EnnAppSys. EnAppSys' annual European electricity market summary for 2020 shows that a record 429TWh of output came from wind farms.
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How Europe Can Build 100GW of Offshore Wind by 2030
GreenTechMedia
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
In both cases, the long-term anchor source of energy will be offshore wind power. The term "hybrid" offshore wind projects in Europe is also used to describe projects that double as interconnectors between two countries. All in all, the U.K.
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Global wind power grows by more than 60GW in 2019
Business Green
MARCH 25, 2020
But Global Wind Energy Council forced to revise its forecasts for 2020 and beyond as coronavirus fallout continues. Meanwhile, the growing number of wind farms around the world continues to be largely driven by financing via market based policy mechanisms, such as the UK's Contracts for Difference scheme, it seems.
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Europe's wind sector weathers pandemic with €43bn investment in 2020
Business Green
APRIL 14, 2021
UK leads the way as Europe's onshore and offshore wind sector sees investment grow 70 per cent, despite Covid-19 disruption. WindEurope CEO Giles Dickson said last year's investment sums showed wind energy remained an attractive investment despite the pandemic, with plenty of capital available to finance new capacity.
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Germany’s Maxed-Out Grid Is Causing Trouble Across Europe
GreenTechMedia
MARCH 31, 2020
“If you look at the western part of Denmark, where we have a lot of wind power, people make the observation that when we have a lot of wind all these wind turbines are not running," Bach told GTM. An analysis by Danish energy consultant Paul-Frederik Bach shows 1.2 They ask: ‘How is that?’
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Octopus Renewables taps trio of European firms for wind power PPA deals
Business Green
JANUARY 10, 2022
Kimberley-Clark, Eesti Energy and Owens Coming have all signed deals to directly buy wind power from Octopus Renewables. Octopus Energy Generation CEO Zoisa North-Bond touted the corporate offtake deals as a "massive step forward for decarbonisation agendas across Europe". "To
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Danish wind power giant Ørsted delays major US offshore project
The Guardian: Energy
AUGUST 15, 2024
News follows scrapping of two other Atlantic windfarms and axing of hundreds of jobs as costs surge Business live – latest updates The Danish company developing the world’s largest offshore windfarm in the North Sea has been forced to delay a major project off the north-east coast of the US, months after cancelling two nearby developments and cutting (..)
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Solar Panel Landfill Deemed Safe as Recycling Options Grow
GreenTechMedia
APRIL 2, 2020
” Europe's big idea, small volumes. still lags behind Europe on solar recycling. Even with this regulatory pressure, cost-effective solar recycling remains a challenge in Europe, as in the U.S., Europe only has one dedicated PV recycling plant so far. Solving wind power's blade problem.
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Octopus Renewables to add 690MW of capacity with flurry of European wind power deals
Business Green
MARCH 10, 2022
Clean energy investor has added onshore wind projects across the UK, Sweden, France, and Finland to its portfolio. All signed in the past three months, the deals are expected to boost Octopus Renewables' total wind power capacity by up to 90 per cent over the coming decade, it said. We need to generate more cheap, clean power.".
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BP and Ørsted Launch Green Hydrogen Partnership
GreenTechMedia
NOVEMBER 10, 2020
The German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy has backed the Westküste 100 project , which is similarly linking end-users, including Hamburg Airport and cement manufacturers, with offshore wind powered-electrolyzers and gas transmission infrastructure. The German utilities E.ON
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Understanding Natural Hydrogen and Its Global Energy Potential
Hydrogen Fuel News
MARCH 8, 2025
Research has also identified potential reserves in Australia, Eastern Europe, and parts of the United States, particularly in areas with ancient rock formations or tectonic activity. This discovery highlights the potential for further exploration in Europe, particularly in regions with favorable geological conditions.
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Is crisis at Siemens Energy symptom of a wider wind power problem?
The Guardian: Energy
OCTOBER 27, 2023
Rising construction and financing costs are likely to require fresh policies from the UK and US One of the world’s biggest wind turbine makers has reignited concerns over the headwinds facing the industry after losing billions in market value this week.
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GE Renewable Energy and LafargeHolcim agree to develop circular wind industry
Renewable Energy World
JUNE 14, 2021
Geocycle offers co-processing solutions for wind blades in Germany and will evaluate the possibility of extending this solution to other parts of Europe. We are delighted to work with LafargeHolcim on these critical projects, which will help to improve the sustainability of wind power now and well into the future.”.
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Global wind industry to deploy 1 TW of new capacity through 2030
Renewable Energy World
APRIL 8, 2021
Research firm Wood Mackenzie says it anticipates the global wind power industry will install 1 TW of new capacity between 2021 and 2030. Lewandowski, added: “Another key region that will spur wind power growth through 2030 is Europe. GW per year and will comprise 40% of annual wind turbine build.
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Europe’s Energy Storage Market Is Fading, Right When It’s Needed Most
GreenTechMedia
NOVEMBER 9, 2020
Europe is still plotting the course towards being net-zero by 2050, but no matter the shape it takes, it will surely involve hundreds of gigawatts of new renewable power capacity. In 2014, EMEA, dominated by Europe, represented 44 percent of global energy storage deployment. In the U.S.,
The Sky Is The Limit For Clean Energy Subsidies In Europe
Mr. Sustainability
AUGUST 26, 2020
Summary - Europe and China double-down on renewables, investing hundreds of billions into electric vehicles, solar, wind and hydrogen. Germany recently unveiled a $145-billion (130 billion euro) recovery plan for Europe’s largest and strongest economy. Big time investments in Hydrogen Europe is also betting big on hydrogen.
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Global Briefing: Spain celebrates record low cost for onshore wind power
Business Green
JANUARY 29, 2021
Spain has delivered the lowest prices ever seen for onshore wind in Europe," said Giles Dickson, CEO at trade body WindEurope, highlighting bids from onshore wind developers that ranged from €20/MWh to €28.89/MWh. The European wind industry continues to reduce costs through innovation, scale and learning effects. "We
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Report: its now cheaper to build new solar than to run existing coal plants in China, India and most of Europe
Renewable Energy World
JUNE 23, 2021
“The economic incentive to deploy large amounts of solar power just got stronger in India, China and most of Europe. In Europe, the levelized cost of new-build solar ranges from $33/MWh in Spain and $41/MWh in France, to $50/MWh in Germany.
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Europe’s largest battery to connect to transmission network goes live
Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
By reducing the reliance on local gas plants to provide reactive power services, the delivery of the project represents a significant milestone in the UK’s path to net zero; it will accelerate the uptake of renewable power, lower the risk of blackouts, and reduce energy bills.
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Comment: sizing up the opportunity for European circular start-ups
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
By Jan Patrick Schulz, CEO of Landbell and initiator of Europe’s largest Circular Economy Prize, the Green Alley Award. Europe has long been a welcoming home to sustainable minded companies. As one of the early homes of solar energy and wind power, circular economy was also an idea that found early adoption in the continent.
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