Thirty GW by 2030: Ørsted deigns to deliver 48% steady state growth
Europe’s leading turbine spinners Ørsted today posted first half results that see the Danish operators advancing steady state earnings by nearly 50%, to the...
Octopus & public pension fund partners buy 12.5% of world’s biggest windfarm
Renewables mega-investor Octopus Energy Group is teaming up to pay a combined £400 million for a one-eighth stake in Hornsea One, the world’s biggest...
“1.3 TWh of UK wind generation wasted” due to lack of grid-scale storage, developer...
Failure to store renewable electricity during Britain’s escalating energy crisis wastes clean electricity that otherwise could be used by half a million homes a...
Crown Estate greenlights six AR4 turbine parks, as TRIG ups Hornsea One stake
Permits to develop six massive offshore windfarms totalling nearly 8GW in output have been issued by the Crown Estate, guardians of Britain’s continental marine...
CfD Allocation Round 4 results: Ørsted’s Hornsea 3, world’s biggest offshore wind farm, plots...
Almost £200 billion pounds of investment in Britain’s continuing green energy revolution are about to be released for nearly 11GW of new capacity, thanks...
Crown Estate bobs up likely licence zones for floating turbines in Celtic Sea
The independent body defining licencing zones for Britain’s coastal waters today uncorked plans to define operational patches of the Celtic Sea soon to see...
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 pays AGR £50 million for 68 MWp fens PV farm, goes 50:50 on...
The ever-expanding Octopus renewables empire stretched further this morning, as its LSE-quoted investment trust announced two deals featuring grid-scale batteries.
In the first, the company’s...
A fair wind blowing: Offshore turbine jobs grow 16% in twelve months, set for...
New figures released today by trade advocates the Offshore Wind Industry Council quantify the wall of fresh cash investing in maritime turbines, and the...
Greencoat pays £400 million for eighth of Hornsea 1, world’s biggest offshore wind farm
The purchase from current half-owners Global Infrastructure Partners is expected to complete before this October.
It will leave ownership of the 1.2 GW Hornsea 1...
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...
Octopus stretches legs, links off Lincs to first offshore turbines
Renewables super-investor Octopus has squirted ink onto a deal yielding it direct entry for the first time into an offshore wind farm.
Putting the ‘zephyr’...
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...
Ding, dong: Ørsted takes 80% of Salamander, floating Scots pilot
Offshore wind market leaders Ørsted today took an 80% stake in the 100 MW Salamander floating turbine project off Aberdeen, entering its supervising joint...
Ofgem hints at June green light for £3.4 billion Anglo-Scots ‘renewables superhighway’
Regulator Ofgem has inched closer to approving two giant undersea interconnectors totalling 4 GW and funded to the tune of £3.4 billion, together hailed...
Premium project: insurers AXA and Crédit Agricole pay Ørsted £ 3 billion for half...
Ørsted, developers of Hornsea 2, the North Sea wind farm set to be the world’s biggest when commissioned later this year, today welcomed new...
Offshore wind wafts jobs home, as Britain out-Chinas China
Britain’s offshore wind pipeline of intended but unbuilt turbine projects now tops 86GW, or eight times the nation’s current installed capacity and bigger even...
New broom TRIG sweeps up 8% of Hornsea One, world’s biggest wind farm, &...
Green investors The Renewables Infrastructure Group have bought 7.8% of the world’s biggest working wind farm off Yorkshire, and will tap investors over the...
Wind farms to pay back £660 million, as levies lead to lower costs
Britain’s investment in renewables, supported by ‘green levies’ on energy bills, is lowering electricity costs, with some of Britain’s oldest, more expensive wind projects...