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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,…

Dragados Offshore’s diagram of the planned “rectifier” platforms

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€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…

Romanian Prime Minister Nicolae Ciucă, left, and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen discuss the plan in Bucharest on 17 December (Photograph by Dati Bendo/© European Union 2022)

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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…

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“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,…

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Construction may be in the doldrums, but the energy revolution could make our 20s roar yet

The shift away from hydrocarbons could spark an industrial revolution in the 2020s in the same way the shift from steam to electricity did in the 1920s.

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Swedish firm plans $18bn Baltic wind farm

Swedish renewable energy developer OX2 has applied to build a 5.5GW wind farm, the world’s largest single such development, between the islands of Gotland and Öland in the Baltic Sea.