ScottishPower, Shell sign option agreements for 5 GW of floating wind in Scottish waters
ScottishPower and Shell have signed option to lease agreements with Crown Estate Scotland – reserving the seabed rights for their MarramWind and CampionWind floating offshore wind farms.
Destined to be among the first commercial-scale floating offshore windfarms anywhere in the world, MarramWind (3 GW) and CampionWind (2 GW) – off the east and north-east coasts of Scotland – will have the potential to power up to six million homes.
The signing of the agreements marks an important step towards delivering the ScotWind projects and a clean energy future.
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April 18, 2022
SSE Renewables, Siemens plan to produce green hydrogen at Gordonbush Wind Farm
SSE Renewables and Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy have unveiled plans to produce and deliver green hydrogen through electrolysis, using renewable energy from SSE’s 100 MW-plus Gordonbush onshor...
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April 12, 2022
BayWa r.e. acquires 75 MWp Driffield solar park with energy storage project in Kingston upon Hull
BayWa r.e has acquired rights to develop a 75 MW Driffield solar plus storage project from Harmony Energy, located in Kingston upon Hull, in Yorkshire, England. The Driffield project is composed of a...
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April 12, 2022
NeuConnect selects Siemens to construct converter stations for 1.4 GW interconnection project
The NeuConnect consortium, composed of Meridiam, Allianz Capital Partners, and Kansai Electric Power, has chosen Siemens Energy for cabling and converter station works for the energy link between the...
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April 08, 2022
Capital Dynamic acquires the 34 MW Pines Burn wind park in Hawick
Energiekontor AG has entered into an agreement with Capital Dynamics, an independent global private asset management firm, for the sale of a 32 MW wind project in Scotland, UK. The Pi...
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April 08, 2022
Application granted for development of 120 MW Little Crow solar project in the UK
The application for the 120 MW Little Crow Solar Park has been granted development consent by the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy of the UK. The application comprised...
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