SSE Renewables blows into Mediterranean, pays Siemens-Gamesa £528m for 3.8GW of wind plays
Fast-growing SSE Renewables has completed the purchase of Siemens Gamesa’s 3.8GW portfolio of wind projects across southern Europe.
The clean power division of SSE, Scotland’s...
US distribution, plus fresh investment, robes solar-with-thermal pioneers Naked in western splendour
Unique solar-electricity-with-thermal-heat (SPVT) pioneer Naked Energy today received investment and a distribution deal, opening a route into America’s newly energised green power sector.
The unexpected...
Ørsted snaps up first Irish solar farm
Danish renewables developer Ørsted today cast more sunlight on its intended diversification away from its core wind turbine business, as it snapped up its...
Powerhouse progresses deal for EfW joint venture in Poland
Further details emerged today of a proposed deal enabling power-from-waste pioneers Powerhouse Energy to launch their intended joint venture in Poland.
Under outline terms agreed...
Essex-based world’s longest power cable venture appoints project engineers
Xlinks, the Billericay-based clean energy innovators planning a £16 billion venture to pipe solar and wind power from Morocco to Devon, have appointed multinational...
Profits soar at Centrica & Shell Â
Energy supermajors Centrica and Shell pleased investors today but antagonised customers and politicians, reporting soaring profits.  British Gas’s owner declared its first dividend for...
Octopus sucks in $550 million, stretches tentacles further
Existing investors are backing privately-held Octopus Energy Group by injecting a massive $550 million of new funds.   Expansions both territorial – deeper into continental...
Hydrogen in Airbus’s wings: planemaker backs low carbon flying, as Cotswold minnow ponders fuelling...
Hydrogen as commercial aviation's clean fuel of the future has gained altitude and higher credibility, following a big investment decision from European planemaker Airbus.
Toulouse’s...
Powerhouse extends green hydrogen offering to Emerald Isle
Hydrogen-from-dead-plastic innovators Powerhouse Energy have signed an outline deal, extending their world’s first operation from the UK into Ireland.
The Merseyside-based, AIM-quoted group told investors...
Vestas to trial hydrogen-fuelled service launches maintaining North Sea turbines
Low carbon launches ferrying technicians on service trips to offshore wind-spinners will be put through their paces in the North Sea from next week,...
Floating offshore wind: Britain leads the world
The UK leads every other nation possessing a coastline in our innovation of floating wind turbines, both in numbers of operating spinners, and in...
Octopus to spin its first ‘asparagus’ turbines in Germany
 Fast expanding Octopus Energy Group is deepening its interest in Europe’s biggest power market, closing a deal to build a 35MWp wind farm near...
UK advances to 3rd on EY’s world renewables beauty parade
Britain has moved up two places to 3rd position on the biannual RECAI attractiveness index for renewable power investment, compiled by management consultants EY.
The...
Octopus’ Kraken awakes, stretches beyond energy into water & broadband
Energy transaction platform Kraken is venturing beyond administering energy accounts, reaching today into other utilities such as telecoms, water & broadband.
Described as ‘cloud-native’, Kraken...
‘Renewables acting like baseload’: Octopus joins Essex-based £16 Bn pipeline to Morocco
Green mega-investor Octopus is teaming up with Billericay-based energy entrepreneurs seeking to pump renewable electricity from southern Morocco to Britain.
Essex start-up Xlinks announced in...
Dawidosky completes management revolution at turbine makers Siemens Gamesa
Turbine-maker-in-a-spin Siemens Gamesa has appointed Tim Dawidowsky as its new chief operating officer.
The Hispano-German combine last month hired new CEO Jochen Eickholt in a...
BP’s Q1 profits 50% up, despite £16 billion Rosneft hit
Fossil fuel supermajor BP has posted underlying Q1 profits of nearly £5 billion, up 50% year on year, despite taking a £16 billion loss...
SSE pays £481 million to tilt at Siemens Gamesa’s sunny windmills
British generator SSE Renewables is set to venture into the Mediterranean wind and solar business, after its purchase today of the southern European assets...
Octopus seeks Suomi wind and solar amid Northern lights
Fast-growing green power investor Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust (ORIT) is deepening its commitment to Finland.
Founded in 2010, the trust boasts generation assets across Europe...
Solar farmers Anesco open Dutch operation
British renewables developer Anesco is powering up international expansion with the launch of its first operation outside the UK.
Wouter Beerten (pictured) joins the company...