Uniper and Siemens Gas and Power have signed a cooperation agreement for the development of projects to decarbonise power generation and promote sector coupling.
Denmark’s Vestas has suspended production at its two Spanish wind turbine plants, adding that its service and maintenance business was still working.
Fiddler’s Ferry coal-fired power station in the UK formally closed at the end of March, nine months after the owner SSE announced the closure.
GE has announced the order of two high-efficiency power units to be constructed through consortium at the Polska Grupa Energetyczna Górnictwo i Energetyka Konwencjonalna’s (PGE) Dolna Odra power plant in the Western Pomerania region of Poland.
Total Quadran, a subsidiary of Total, has announced that it has acquired 100 per cent of Global Wind Power France, with a 1250MW portfolio of onshore wind projects.
Power generation company ContourGlobal has announced plans to abandon construction of its 500MW coal-fired power plant in Kosovo, in order to facilitate a soother and faster transition to renewables.
Siemens has received a third order from Belarus to supply SGT-800 industrial gas turbines.
GE Renewable Energy has announced that it has been selected by Sanko Enerji to provide 12 Cypress units and 2 units of 3MW for the 70MW Guney wind farm in Turkey.
Montenegro’s power utility EPCG has announced that it will enter talks with the German state-owned development bank KfW to help fund expansion of the Pericica hydropower plant.
Renewable energy sources provided a record 61.2 per cent of Germany’s net public electricity generation in February, according to figures provided by the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE).