Siemens Gamesa has strengthened its long-term funding structure by securing an improvement in the conditions of its main financing facility and incorporating sustainability criteria. The operation was highly successful, securing commitments from 22 banks and being more than 50% oversubscribed. Specifically, the company has extended the maturity of its €2.5…

Aquila European Renewables Income Fund (“AERIF” or “the Company”), the London-listed investment company advised by Aquila Capital Investmentgesellschaft mbh, has today announced its second acquisition in Denmark and fifth across Europe since the successful Initial Public Offering (IPO) on the London Stock Exchange in June 2019.   Following its 18…

The European Investment Bank (EIB) has taken another step forward in the promotion of clean energy production in Spain. The EU bank will provide EUR 50m in financing to Renovables de la Ribera, a 50-50 joint venture between Iberdrola and Caja Rural de Navarra to build a new renewable energy project…

Trelleborg’s applied technologies operation has been awarded a contract by Ørsted to provide NjordGuard, an integrated cable protection system, for the Greater Changhua 1 & 2a offshore wind farms in Taiwan. Trelleborg will provide 235 NjordGuard cable protection systems and bellmouths, which will protect all inter array and export cables…

Wind speeds across the globe have increased rapidly over the past decade signalling good news for the renewable energy industry, scientists say. New findings have shown that a worrying trend of decreasing wind speeds since the 1970s, a phenomenon known as global terrestrial stilling, has now been reversed with a…

A hat-trick of contract wins has seen global renewables operator RES add 98MW of wind assets to its growing asset management portfolio across the UK and Ireland. RES, the world’s largest independent renewable energy company, with more than 35 years’ experience in wind, solar and storage manages a support services…

Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) and Hai Long Offshore Wind (Hai Long) today signed a preferred supplier agreement for the delivery and servicing of turbines on the 300 MW Hai Long 2 project. The agreement is subject to contract and final investment decision from the consortium partners, Canadian independent power…

Offshore and Floating Wind Europe Conference 2019 November 11th-12th 2019 | London, UK View the full map – Click here to download PDF 

UK Export Finance, the UK’s export credit agency, has today, Tuesday 5 November, announced that it is providing a NT$9.2 billion of New Taiwanese Dollars (£230 million) project finance guarantee to support the construction of an offshore wind farm in the Taiwan Strait. The Formosa 2 wind farm project is…

LOC Group, the premier international marine and engineering consulting firm, is pleased to announce it has signed an agreement with Ørsted (“ORSTED”), the global leader in offshore wind, to carry out Marine Warranty Surveyor (“MWS”) services for its Hornsea Two offshore wind farm, located approximately 89 kilometres off the UK’s…