With a construction time of only six months, the biomethane plant of Lanes Farm Energy near Pontefract, West Yorkshire, Uk went live on time. “We are very happy and proud to hand over this plant to our customer within less than a year after signing the contract,” says Wolfgang Bokern,…
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Thanks to its iconic skyline, cutting-edge architecture, and plans for passenger drones and Hyperloop trains – to many of us, Dubai is known as a city of the future. Hand-in-hand with this rapid pace of development is the need to fuel its continuing growth, and rather than tax its natural…
German solar energy storage maker Sonnen GmbH could start considering an IPO as early as 2017 to grow its international presence and develop additional services and business models. In a recent interview with Energy Storage News, Sonnen CEO Christoph Ostermann said that the company is relatively relaxed on the timeline – expecting…
Ageing wind assets, growing corporate demand and limited appetite for full repowering are favoring lifetime extension projects, increasing the importance of performance analysis. European lifetime extension (LTE) activity is set to hike in the coming years as feed-in tariffs expire and wind operators seek to maximize revenues from ageing assets.…
Lisbon, 21 October, 2019: The first WindFloat Atlantic platform with the turbine fully installed has set off from the Spanish Port of Ferrol towards its final destination 20 km off the coast of Viana do Castelo in Portugal. Once at the final location, the three floating structures –stretching 30 metres…
A new form of energy storage – which uses massive weights in disused mine shafts – could store green energy more cheaply than batteries, an industry reports says. Edinburgh start-up Gravitricity has patented their multi-weight system, which uses up to 24 weights totalling 12,000 tonnes stacked in a mine shaft,…...
The Board of the European Investment Bank (EIB) today agreed EUR 8.4 billion of new financing. This includes support for new investment across Europe and around the world to improve sustainable transport, clean energy, social housing, telecommunications and water infrastructure. The EIB also approved EUR 3 billion of new support…
Millions of people will be needing home charge points for Electric Vehicles in the next few years. Only the UK’s first ever car charger comparison site, Rightcharge <<URL: https://www.rightcharge.co.uk>>, can help drivers choose the best home charge point and find the best installation rates in their area. Electric vehicles (EVs)…
With Wood Mackenzie revealing that the annual cost of operating and maintaining solar energy plants is set to double in the next five years, global energy recruitment expert, Samuel Knight International, has warned that there’s simply not enough workers ready to deliver this. According to the firm, the gap between…
The European Investment Bank (EIB) will provide a EUR 110m loan for the construction of a gas systems interconnection facility between Bulgaria and Greece (ICGB). The interconnector will also help establish a link with the Trans Adriatic Gas Pipeline (TAP), which runs from east to west through northern Greece. This will…










