Eneco, Future Wind (a Joint Venture between Pondera Development and SIF Holdings Netherlands), and GE Renewable Energy, have announced that Eneco will purchase all of the electricity generated by GE’s Haliade-X 12MW prototype.
Siemens has announced that it will deliver the power generation equipment for two new peaking power plants in the Republic of Belarus, supplying the equipment to the state-owned utility company RUE Vitebskenergo.
Dorset County Council has approved planning permission for Tradebe Inutec’s application for a new facility on its Winfrith nuclear decommissioning site.
E.ON has announced that it is to construct a biomass power plant on a paper mill site owned by UPM in Hürth, Germany.
Rolls-Royce and Lab1886, an innovation lab within the Mercedes-Benz group, have agreed to jointly develop the use of vehicle fuel cells for stationary power generation.
The Spanish electric utility Iberdrola has said that it will replace its last two coal-fired power plants, with a combined capacity of 550MW, with wind and solar power.
The Irish Government has announced the first renewable electricity support scheme (RESS) to enable community groups get into power generation.
Vattenfall and Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) have announced that they have agreed to extend the Hollandse Kust Zuid (HKZ) turbine supply, to now also include HKZ 1 and 2 in addition to HKZ 3 and 4.
German transmission grid operator TransnetBW has commissioned Siemens to build new switchgear in the 380kV Daxlanden substation in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg.
Siemens Gamesa has won a contract for the world’s largest floating wind power plant, which will be installed off Norway.