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DNV GL to provide electrical design services for new high voltage transmission tower

Friday, 29 March 2019 Robin Whitlock DNV GL has been selected by the Norwegian transmission system operator, Statnett to provide electrical design services for the development of a new composite high-voltage transmission tower, which is part ...

UK Negative imbalance price phenomenon predicted to rise according to Cornwall Insight

Friday, 29 March 2019 Robin Whitlock Imbalance prices turned negative for 13 consecutive settlement periods on Sunday 24th March, as low electricity demand and high levels of wind output led the System Operator to reduce generation output ...

Corporate Heavyweights Form Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance, Target 60 GW of Corporate Renewables by 2025

Thursday, 28 March 2019 REM Google, Facebook, General Motors and Walmart, along with over 300 other companies, have launched the Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance—the largest group of corporate renewable energy buyers in the United ...

RES Acquires REG Power Management

Thursday, 28 March 2019 REM Renewable energy company, RES, has acquired REG Power Management’s (RPM) asset management business and with it contracts to manage a portfolio of 43 operational wind and solar projects, increasing its ...

AKASOL Building New Headuqarters in Darmstadt

Thursday, 28 March 2019 Dan McCue AKASOL AG, German manufacturer of lithium-ion battery systems, has acquired a property of 20,000 square meters in southwest Darmstadt, Germany, from the Federal Agency for Real Estate Tasks (BImA) in order ...

PPA: An Opportunity for Agents in Risk Management in the European Electricity Market

Wednesday, 27 March 2019 REM The increased interest in long-term renewable energy PPAs is due to the fall in the costs of photovoltaic technology combined with the renewable revolution posed by the goal of reducing CO2 and other GHG ...

Battery power’s latest fall in costs threatens coal and gas

Tuesday, 26 March 2019 Robin Whitlock

Lithium-ion batteries and offshore wind have both seen dramatic gains in competitiveness during the last year according to the latest research by BNEF.

Enel Acquires 650 MW of Renewable Capacity from GE

Monday, 25 March 2019 REM Enel, acting through its renewable subsidiary Enel Green Power North America, has acquired 100 percent of seven fully operational renewable plants totaling 650 MW from Enel Green Power North America Renewable ...

Grain Belt Express transmission line passes major regulatory hurdle

Monday, 25 March 2019 Robin Whitlock Missouri Public Service Commission (PSC) has approved the Grain Belt Express transmission project - a long-distance, high-voltage direct current (HVDC) power line which will deliver large amounts of energy, ...

Businesses, cities and NGOs call for fossil fuel-free investments in EU’s regions

Monday, 25 March 2019 Robin Whitlock An open letter, signed by 44 organisations and sent today to EU Parliamentarians, urges them to rule out fossil fuel investments when they meet to vote on the spending priorities of post-2020 Cohesion ...