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.
According to a report from Carbon Tracker, coal power generators in Europe face losses of €6.6 billion this year as plunging renewable energy costs and cheap natural gas cut use of coal to a record low.
MAN Energy Solutions has announced that it has fully commissioned a new 7.5MW CHP plant for Schwäbisch Hall Municipal Utilities in southern Germany.
GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) and Synthos have agreed to collaborate on potential deployment applications for GEH’s BWRX-300 small modular reactor in Poland.