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26 Jul 24 |
GoM: BOEM announces next steps for offshore wind in Gulf of Mexico The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has received an unsolicited lease request from Hecate Energy Gulf Wind to acquire commercial wind energy lease(s) on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) in the Gulf of Mexico. |
25 Jul 24 |
Italy: Plenitude completes new 39 MW wind farm in Calabria Plenitude has completed the construction of a new onshore wind farm with a capacity of around 39 MW in Borgia (in the province of Catanzaro), Calabria, Italy. |
25 Jul 24 |
UK: New Great British Energy partnership launched to turbocharge energy independence The Prime Minister and Energy Secretary today announced a new unprecedented partnership between Great British Energy and The Crown Estate, which has the potential to leverage up to £60 billion of private investment into the UK’s drive for energy independence. Great British Energy will be at the heart of the government’s mission to make Britain a clean energy superpower. |
25 Jul 24 |
Netherlands: TotalEnergies acquires a stake in the OranjeWind offshore wind farm with a view to supplying green hydrogen to its European refineries TotalEnergies has signed agreements with German renewable developer RWE, to acquire a 50% stake in OranjeWind, a 795 MW offshore wind farm under development in the Netherlands. TotalEnergies will dedicate its share of the renewable electricity production from this project to power 350 MW electrolyzer projects. These will produce about 40,000 tons per year of green hydrogen for the decarbonization of TotalEnergies’ refineries in Northern Europe. |
24 Jul 24 |
Portugal: Iberdrola increases its renewable production in Portugal with two new photovoltaic plants The Montechoro I and II PV plants, located in the Algarve region of southern Portugal, have been completed and now contribute to the country's renewable energy production capacity. With a total installed capacity of 37 megawatts (MW) and a total annual production capacity of 56.84 GWh, the projects were awarded to Iberdrola in an auction in 2019. |
24 Jul 24 |
Australia: Koorangie Energy Storage Facility hits major milestone The Allan Labor Government’s $480 million investment into Victoria’s energy grid has reached another milestone with the delivery of 100 Tesla Megapacks to the Koorangie Energy Storage System. The battery system will help accelerate the transition to renewables and help lower power bills. |
24 Jul 24 |
US: TGS completes U.S. East Coast’s largest simultaneous wind and metocean program ahead of Central Atlantic Lease Auction TGS has completed a pioneering mega-regional wind and metocean data collection campaign along the U.S. East Coast - the largest of its kind in the region. This campaign involved deploying and simultaneously operating five offshore LiDAR buoys covering nearly 600 kilometers from Massachusetts to the Virginia/North Carolina border. |
24 Jul 24 |
Integrated Power in Germany: TotalEnergies launches new 100 MW / 200 MWh battery storage development TotalEnergies has taken the final investment decision for a 100 MW /200 MWh battery storage project in Dahlem, North Rhine-Westphalia. This is the first project sanctioned by TotalEnergies from the pipeline of Kyon Energy, Germany’s leading battery storage system developer, which was recently acquired by TotalEnergies in February 2024. |
