Cerro Dominador, a Chilean company owned by investment funds managed by EIG Global Energy Partners, has signed an agreement for financing of its Concentrated Solar Power plant located in the Atacama desert, in Chile.
Siemens Gamesa has inaugurated a new Gamesa Electric technology and manufacturing center in Spain. The center is located in the Madrid town of San Fernando de Henares.
Wind farms in the UK have enjoyed another record-breaking three months, producing more electricity than nuclear over the quarter, according to a report by Drax Electric Insights.
Cerro Dominador, a Chilean company owned by investment funds managed by EIG Global Energy Partners, has signed an agreement for financing of its Concentrated Solar Power plant located in the Atacama desert, in Chile.
Global Bioenergies will conduct a three-year project to demonstrate a new value chain combining its Isobutene process with technologies developed by Sekab and Neste Engineering Solutions. The aim is to convert currently poorly valorised softwood residues into second generation renewable isobutene for subsequent conversion into gasoline and jetfuel. A €13.9 million ($16.3 million) grant agreement was signed with the Innovation and Networks Executive Agency on behalf of the European commission.
A Welsh battery storage scheme operated by Swedish energy company Vattenfall, believed to be the UK’s largest battery storage project co-located with an onshore wind farm, has now begun commercial operation.
BYD has teamed with US Hybrid Corporation to develop a hydrogen fuel cell battery-electric bus. This bus, the first of its kind, will serve Honolulu’s Daniel K. Inouye International Airport, one of the busiest airports in the United States with more than 21 million passengers per year.
The company is called Emrgy, and its mission is to tap the long-overlooked potential of producing electricity from canals and other man-made hydrologic structures.
La asociación de la industria eólica europea -WindEurope- ha mapeado toda Europa para dejar claro cuál es el peso del viento -de la I+D, de la tecnología, de la industria eólicas, en términos de empleo, de pago de impuestos…- en la geografía del Viejo Continente: cuál es el peso de la energía eólica... a escala local, o sea, en todos y cada uno de los cientos de municipios europeos en los que hay fábricas, centros de investigación, parques o industrias auxiliares de un sector (cadena de suministro) que emplea ahora mismo en el continente a 263.000 personas.
EDP Renováveis, SA ("EDPR"), a través de su participada al 100 % EDP Renewables North America LLC, ha anunciado la firma de un acuerdo de compraventa de electricidad (PPA, por sus siglas en inglés) de 15 años de duración para la venta de la energía que generará su parque eólico Hidalgo II, de 50 MW, ubicado en el estado de Texas. Es el segundo anuncio de este tipo en pocos días.
