16 October 2024 – EDF Renewables Ireland, part of one of the world’s largest electricity companies, has appointed Paul Gallagher as its new Head of Onshore Technologies. In his new role, Mr Gallagher will lead EDF Renewables’ growing Irish development team, as it looks to develop a portfolio of wind, solar and battery storage sites across the country. Originally from Portlaoise in Co. Laois, Mr Gallagher has over 20 years’ experience in infrastructure development and delivery, including over 15 years developing renewable energy assets. He was previously Portfolio Director for Renewable Energy at FuturEnergy Ireland and Coillte, and prior to that…

Virgin Money’s funding will support the construction and operation of Derril Water Solar Park, the first solar park in the UK where members share the power it produces, as well as the ownership. Approximately 68,000 solar panels will generate enough electricity to power 14,000 homes and save 20,000 tonnes of CO₂ emissions each year when the solar park near Torridge becomes operational in 2025. Established in 2017, Ripple Energy have pioneered an innovative co-operative business model for the development of new renewable energy resources. Virgin Money has helped fund one of two wind farms Ripple have developed with this successful model,…

The European Patent Office (EPO) has granted a European patent for the gravity-based base solution for an offshore wind power plant developed by Enersense.What is special about the base solution is its transportation by floating to the installation site. Installation on the bottom is done by ballasting, and by de-ballasting, the base can be lifted up and reused in a new location or delivered for recycling at the end of the product’s life cycle. When using ballast, the use of large floating crane vessels is avoided when installing the stand.The development of the concept began in 2017, and the official…

14 October 2024: The Aberdeen-based Green Volt floating offshore windfarm is set to join UK leaders, high-profile investors and businesses from around the world today at the UK Government’s first International Investment Summit.The pioneering Green Volt project is set to unlock £2.5 billion of private investment and create up to 2,800 construction jobs, after it was successful in winning a UK Government Contract for Difference last month. The project is the first major commercial development for floating wind in Europe and is on track to become the world’s largest floating offshore windfarm with a government contract.Just last week, developers Flotation…

London, 14 October 2024 – Macquarie Group (Macquarie) Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Shemara Wikramanayake, has announced that the Australian-headquartered financial services group will support new investment to roll out a network of fast-charging electric vehicle infrastructure nationwide as part of a wider £20 billion of package of planned investment activity across its UK portfolio. Announced on the sidelines of the UK’s International Investment Summit, the new investment by Macquarie portfolio company Roadchef, one of Britain’s leading motorway service area operators, will install around 650 fast-charging points across most of its sites in conjunction with partners to support the…

date: Oct 14, 2024 8:08am   •            The first-of-a-kind system, owned and operated by carbon removal project developer Deep Sky, is validating Mission Zero Technologies’ DAC technology ahead of plans to eventually build a commercial facility that aims to remove up to one million tons of CO2 annually•            MZT’s first international project and third system to be delivered within a year builds on two UK plants enabling sustainable aviation fuel and carbon-negative building materials made from atmospheric carbon dioxide•            This system boosts MZT’s database of real-world performance data spanning different use cases, industrial environments, and climates, ensuring greater financial confidence and…

Destination Renewables, a bilingual, award winning education programme developed by lead partners: Pembrokeshire College, EDF Renewables UK, DP Energy and Pembrokeshire Coastal Forum, is celebrating the roll out of the industry led course at two additional further education colleges, with further interest in the roll out. In addition to the programme’s expansion, the event – attended by learners, education, and industry professionals – also celebrated the recent announcements that the programme has been shortlisted for a Global Offshore Wind Award and two Wales STEM Awards. The course, which prepares 16–18-year-olds with a Level 3 Extended Project Qualification has been adopted…

LONDON, Oct 11 (Reuters) – Governments’ targets and plans to speed up the use of renewable energy are set to deliver only half of the growth needed to reach a U.N. climate goal to triple capacity by 2030, a report by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) showed.WHY IT’S IMPORTANTThe renewable energy goal set at the COP28 U.N. climate conference last year, as well as a target to double energy efficiency, are seen as crucial to keeping a 1.5 degree Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) warming limit this century within reach.Countries have to update their nationally determined contributions (NDCs), or commitments to combat climate change, by February next…

America poised for largest deployment in its history: 33 states, $430 million and energy with waterTime stopped for the first time in history: Einstein’s prediction has been decipheredThis is America’s most dangerous power plant: We’re going to turn it on after decadesAs humanity transitions towards sustainable energy, H2B2 Electrolysis Technologies leads the way with their initiative, SoHyCal project-the biggest conservational hydrogen generation plant driven completely by the North American renewable energy.SoHyCal, stationed in California, is ready to alter the market of conservational hydrogen, suggesting a cleaner substitute to fossil fuels, mainly in the transport division. This groundbreaking initiative might substantially decrease emissions as well…

Floating solar photovoltaic panels could supply all the electricity needs of some countries, new research has shown.The study, by researchers from Lancaster and Bangor Universities and the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, aimed to calculate the global potential for deploying low-carbon floating solar arrays. The researchers calculated the daily electrical output for floating photovoltaics (FPV) on nearly 68,000 lakes and reservoirs around the world, using available climate data for each location.The researchers’ calculations included lakes and reservoirs where floating solar technology is most likely to be installed. They were no more than 10km from a population centre, not in…