Balfour Beatty, the largest construction contractor in the UK, has today announced that it has sold 80 per cent of the transmission system for the Thanet offshore transmission project (Thanet Ofto) to Equitix, an infrastructure fund, for £40 million ($61.5 million).
A huge prospective onshore wind farm in the Shetland Islands, which is expected to be one of the most productive in the world, has been cleared for construction by the UK Supreme Court after it rejected an appeal based on the protection of local wildlife.
French utility Électricité de France (EDF) has entered into strategic partnerships with China General Nuclear Power Group (CGN) and China Huadian Corporation in China.
Austria is to launch a legal challenge to the price for electricity generated by EDF’s planned Hinkley Point C nuclear power station in the UK.
Ukrainian wind farms produced 1.12 billion kWh of renewable electricity in 2014, which is 0.62 per cent of the country's total power output, nearly doubling the figure for 2013.
The Barents Region, centred on the northern Baltic Sea, has set a new wind power record in 2013, generating some 1600 GWh in figures recently released by Patchwork Barents - a data pool for the region.
The UK and Germany both recorded substantial increases on their annual wind power records for 2014, setting the stage for further growth of this industry across Europe.
Gilgel Gibe 3, a much delayed $1.8 billion dam project under construction along Ethiopia's Omo river could start generating power by June and be fully operational early 2016, according to a government official.
Scotland's solar capacity has risen by a third in the past year, according to new figures from British energy regulator Ofgem.
Development of the world's largest tidal energy project will begin in January 2015 off the coast of Scotland.