News Mott MacDonald picked for Dutch battery scheme Mott MacDonald has been chosen to provide owner’s engineering and advisory services on the Leopard Project, billed as one of Europe’s largest battery energy storage projects with a physical capacity…
Companies Vinci buys into green energy firm, eyes expansion in US renewables French construction group Vinci has finalised a €50m investment NatPower, a renewable energy developer set up in 2019. The company, which is based in Milan, London and Washington, DC, has…
News Google begins work on €600m green data centre in Belgium Google has broken ground on its second data centre in the French-speaking Hainaut region of Belgium. It’s part of a €1bn programme that also involves expanding the US company’s existing…
News Morocco to spend $1bn a year on renewables to slash energy imports Morocco has set a target of investing $1bn a year in solar and wind power with the aim of generating a majority of its energy from renewables and cutting its…
News Military power: America’s Defence Department to add renewables to the Pentagon The US Department of Defence has announced plans to add renewable energy sources to the Pentagon. The building, the world’s second largest office, will be fitted with solar panels and…
News Californian port gets $427m for an offshore wind farm terminal The US Department of Transportation has given a $427m grant to a port and power project in northern California. The money will pay for a terminal at Humboldt Bay, a…
News China to spend $70bn revamping grid to take renewables The company that manages China’s electricity grid says it will invest more than $70bn in its network this year to improve long-distance transmission and accommodate more intermittent renewable generators. State…
News Norway to spend €6bn on wind and hydro Norwegian renewable energy generator Statkraft has announced plans to invest up to €6bn on hydroelectric and wind projects. The state-owned company, the largest generator of green power in Europe, plans…
News Adani gets $1.36bn to build world’s biggest solar, wind park Indian conglomerate Adani has secured a loan of $1.36bn from a consortium of banks to build the world’s largest solar and wind park at Khavda in the western state of…
News Siemens, Dragados win €7bn contract to build offshore wind converter platforms A joint venture between Siemens Energy and Spain’s Dragados Offshore has landed a €7bn contract to design and build three offshore wind-farm energy converter platforms in the German North Sea…
Trends Helsinki’s latest timber commercial building ate 6,000 tonnes of CO2 The drive to normalise wood as a primary building material in Europe continues with the start of a mass timber commercial building in Helsinki, Finland, developed by Finnish pension insurer,…
News Report finds EU needs to build, train and renovate to meet climate targets The EU lacks 1.6 million trained professionals to meet its climate targets, according to a report from management consultant McKinsey. The study also found that supply chain issues were hindering…
News HDF Energy breaks ground on world’s first high-power hydrogen fuel cell factory Hydrogene De France (HDF Energy) has begun work on the world’s first high-power hydrogen fuel cell factory on the site of a former Ford plant in Blanquefort near Bordeaux. It…
News World’s biggest wind turbine planned; could power town of 100,000 Chinese company Mingyang Smart Energy has announced plans to build the world’s largest offshore wind turbine, a unit with a rotor diameter of 280m that would be able to supply…
News UGL to install huge battery system in Queensland UGL, a subsidiary of Australian contractor Cimic, has been appointed by French energy company Neoen to install high voltage infrastructure at the 1,500ha Western Downs Green Power Hub in Queensland,…
News €4bn contract sees Vinci build first 2GW converter platforms for North Sea wind A subsidiary of French contractor Vinci has won a contract worth €4bn to build wind farm infrastructure in the North Sea. Cobra IS and its subsidiary Dragados Offshore will work…
News Four-country deal to send Caspian wind power to EU Azerbaijan, Georgia, Romania, and Hungary agreed Saturday to supply Europe with electricity generated by wind farms that Azerbaijan plans to build in the Caspian Sea. Supported by the EU, the…
News “Largest urban regeneration project in Europe” in Athens will be fully renewable It has been announced that the Ellinikon, a 2 million sq m casino and conference centre development located on the site of Athens’ dilapidated Olympics complex and abandoned Hellinikon airport,…