The Arkona offshore wind farm of E.ON and Equinor went into operation with a festive event in the port of Sassnitz-Mukran on the island of Rügen. German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern’s Prime Minister, Manuela Schwesig, and Norway’s Minister of Energy and Petroleum, Kjell-Børge Freiberg, launched power generation together with E.ON’s CEO, Johannes Teyssen, and other […]
The Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) launched its market intelligence platform during a press conference at WindEurope 2019 in Bilbao. GWEC Market Intelligence provides a series of insights and data-based analysis on the development of the global wind industry and is now accessible online for GWEC members. GWEC Market Intelligence derives its insights from its […]
Norsk Hydro, a global aluminium and renewable energy company based in Norway, has been hit by an extensive cyberattack. IT-systems in most business areas have been impacted and the company has switched to manual operations and procedures as far as possible. In a statement, the company said its technical team, with external support, has succeeded […]
Energias de Portugal (EDP), which ranks among Europe’s major electricity operators and is one of Portugal’s largest business groups, has completed a strategic investment in the Israel and US-based cybersecurity company, Sepio Systems. EDP is a vertically integrated utility company that has electricity, gas and renewable energy operations in 16 countries and EDP Renewables is […]
HCL Technologies (HCL), a leading global technology company, has announced it has won a five year IT infrastructure and application services contract with EDF Luminus, the second largest electricity producer and energy supplier in the Belgian energy market. HCL will help EDF Luminus to transform and modernise its IT infrastructure, applications landscape and will migrate […]
Residents of a block of flats in Brixton are pioneering a community energy trading project led by EDF Energy that will enable them to trade solar energy with each other. EDF Energy’s Research and Development department has launched Project ‘CommUNITY’ with Repowering London and UCL’s Energy Institute, which aims to increase residents’ consumption of local […]
ALD Automotive, a leading vehicle leasing company in Europe, and E.ON, a leading European energy company, have signed a strategic partnership to jointly develop and market digital enhanced mobility, financing and energy services. The partnership will focus on mobility offerings for electric vehicles for corporate customers, municipalities and private customers in Europe. Through this partnership, […]
The Scottish Government has set an ambitious target for renewable energy resources to meet 100% of the country’s gross annual electricity consumption by 2020. Large onshore wind farms will play a key role in meeting this target, such as the 88 MW Kype Muir wind farm, where Nexans has just completed a project to provide […]
While utility companies have greater access to consumers than ever before, the majority of UK customers still feel they are being left in the dark, according to research from Quadient. This spells bad news for traditional utility providers – with 91% of consumers willing to switch utility provider, many believe that the days of large, […]
Sungrow, a global-leading inverter solution supplier for renewables announced it has supplied its 1500V inverters, including a complete local medium voltage solution, to a 400 MW solar PV installation. Solaria Energía y Medio Ambiente has already started the construction of the first parks located in Cáceres, Valladolid, Salamanca, Toledo, Cuenca and Huesca. The generated electricity […]
Vertiv has announced the opening of a new testing laboratory for IT infrastructure colocated in a data centre – the first such facility in Poland and the only one in the Central and Eastern Europe region (CEE). The laboratory will serve in research and development projects and performance tests of power systems with variable load […]
Hundreds of thousands of people in sub-Saharan Africa will get access to electricity for the first time thanks to an extra £100 million of funding from the UK government. The new investment triples funds for the Renewable Energy Performance Platform (REPP), to support up to 40 more renewable energy projects over the next five years. […]
