France
GDF Suez turns attention to French tidal power
Tuesday, 03 July 2012 Toby Price GDF Suez is studying the feasibility of two projects at the sites of France’s most powerful tidal currents: Raz Blanchard in Lower Normandy and the Passage du Fromveur off the Finistère coast in Br...
France
Second consortium presents bid in French call for offshore wind tenders
Thursday, 12 January 2012 REM Following Iberdrola’s announcement earlier, another consortium comprising EDF Energies Nouvelles, DONG Energy, Nass&Wind Offshore and wpd Offshore, with Alstom acting as sole supplier, has submi...
France
Iberdrola-led consortium pitches for a GW of French offshore wind capacity
Thursday, 12 January 2012 REM A consortium led by Iberdrola, who have their global offshore wind headquarters located in Glasgow, has announced the submission of two bids for wind farm projects off the Brittany and Atlantic coasts...
France
Germans and French bring algal biofuel to Indian Ocean
Monday, 24 October 2011 Toby Price A German-French initiative has culminated in the commissioning of a photobioreactor plant on the French island of La Reunion in the Indian Ocean. The facility which uses microalgae to produce biofuel ...
France
Siemens notches up another solar farm
Tuesday, 18 October 2011 REM In mid-October, Siemens Energy put the Les Mées solar photovoltaic (PV) farm in the department of Alpes-de- Haute-Provence in the south of France on line. According to the company, the plant is the l...
France
Consortium strengthens bid for offshore wind capacity
Monday, 10 October 2011 Toby PriceEOLE-RES and Iberdrola have announced that they have signed an exclusive agreement to jointly bid for two of the five offshore areas that the French Government has offered for competitive tender.
France
Alstom, EDF, Dong form €10 billion pact for French wind plan
Monday, 11 July 2011 REM EDF Energies Nouvelles SA (EEN), Dong Energy A/S and Alstom SA (ALO) have agreed to join in the €10 billion ($14 billion) French offshore wind plan aimed at boosting the nation’s clean ener...
France
Total invests €897.7 million in US solar power firm
Monday, 02 May 2011 France’s biggest oil company is set to purchase 60 percent of SunPower Corporation, the second biggest solar panel manufacturer in America, in the hope that the partnership will serve as a corne...
France
France’s Areva, Suez GDF poised for offshore wind energy partnership
Tuesday, 26 April 2011French energy giant Areva is on the verge of announcing a partnership with GDF Suez to develop offshore wind projects, according to a report in Les Echos, a daily financial paper published in France.
France
Energy firm Total to acquire Tenesol’s solar operations in Europe
Friday, 15 April 2011French energy company Total said it will acquire solar energy operator Tenesol’s operations in Europe, a move that significantly expands the utility’s regional renewable footprint.
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