Renewable and Wind

Gigastack renewable hydrogen from offshore wind project advances to next phase; 100MW electrolyzer system

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

million for the next phase of Gigastack, a new renewable hydrogen project, as part of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Hydrogen Supply Competition. Producing hydrogen has traditionally been associated with high carbon emissions, but by using renewable electricity—e.g., The UK has awarded £7.5

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Why repowering wind farms is wind power’s next big thing

Electrek

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Renewables developer Exus Renewables North America is giving a $200 million upgrade to Somerset County, Pennsylvania’s 139 megawatt (MW) Twin Ridges Wind Farm – here’s why repowering projects like this are the future of the wind industry.

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Sandia innovation eliminates reliance on rare-earth magnets for large-scale wind turbines

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Motivated by the need to eliminate expensive rare-earth magnets in utility-scale direct-drive wind turbines, Sandia National Laboratories researchers have developed a fundamentally new type of rotary electrical contact. Most of the current utility-scale wind turbines are dependent on rare-earth magnets, Koplow said. 1 milliohm).

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EV & CleanTech Round Up — More Battery Recycling, MAN Accelerates Charging, Wind Advances, & Millions for Volvo Renewable Renovation

CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

continued] The post EV & CleanTech Round Up — More Battery Recycling, MAN Accelerates Charging, Wind Advances, & Millions for Volvo Renewable Renovation appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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California Energy Commission adopts offshore wind goals: 5GW by 2030, 25 GW by 2045

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2022

The California Energy Commission (CEC) adopted a report establishing offshore wind goals and moving the state one step closer to development of the clean energy resource off California’s coast. Additional transmission infrastructure will be needed to deliver offshore wind energy from this region to the grid.

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Nacero awards 20-year wind power purchase agreement to NextEra for natural gas-to-gasoline plant in Texas

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Texas-based Nacero, a company seeking to produce low- and zero-lifecycle carbon footprint gasoline blendstock ( earlier post ) has awarded a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources, LLC a 20-year power purchase agreement to supply wind power to Nacero’s planned flagship manufacturing facility in Penwell, Texas. Renewable power procurement.

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Mercedes-Benz plans wind farm at Papenburg test track to cover more than 15% of Group’s electricity needs in Germany

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Mercedes-Benz plans to build a wind farm at its test track in Papenburg, northern Germany, with an output of more than 100 MW to cover up to more than 15% of the annual electricity demand of Mercedes-Benz Group AG in Germany. The targeted expansion of renewable energies at our own locations is an integral part of our sustainability strategy.

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Wind Germany Mercedes Renewable

Ørsted and partners secure funding for H2RES project; offshore wind power to produce renewable hydrogen for road transport

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2019

The plant will use electricity from offshore wind turbines to produce renewable hydrogen for buses, trucks and potentially taxis. If the power used for electrolysis originates from renewable energy sources, the hydrogen produced will be renewable. Avedøre Power Station on Avedøre Holme.

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W2Power: Innovative floating wind technology to transform the renewable energy landscape

Innovation News Network

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Discover how EnerOcean’s W2Power floating wind platform is advancing on proven mature offshore technologies. The post W2Power: Innovative floating wind technology to transform the renewable energy landscape appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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Mercedes-Benz to source CO2-free electricity in Germany from solar, wind and hydropower from 2022 onwards

Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2021

From 2022 onwards, the company will purchase electricity in Germany which comes exclusively from renewable sources. A green power supply contract ensures the purchase of electricity from renewable energy sources at all times. The electricity generated from this is roughly equivalent to the amount consumed by 65,000 households annually.

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Siemens Gamesa and Siemens Energy investing €120M over 5 years to develop fully integrated offshore wind-to-hydrogen system

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2021

Siemens Gamesa and Siemens Energy are joining forces to develop an innovative solution that fully integrates an electrolyzer into an offshore wind turbine as a single synchronized system to produce green hydrogen directly. It is a prime example of enabling us to store and transport wind energy, thus reducing the carbon footprint of economy.

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3 Oil Majors That Bet Big On Renewables

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2020

Despite the much-vaunted megatrend involving the global electrification drive and shift to renewable energy , the most ambitious pledges by Big Oil to pursue net-zero agendas remain weak at best. Equinor has announced plans to invest $10B into clean energy by 2025, mostly through its offshore wind portfolio. 1 Equinor. 2 Total SA.

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BASF and RWE proposing 2GW offshore wind farm for green electricity and hydrogen for chemical industry

Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2021

Markus Krebber (RWE), accompanied by Chairman of the Mining, Chemical and Energy Industries Union (IG BCE) Michael Vassiliadis, presented a project idea that envisions a new 2 GW offshore wind farm in the German North Sea to provide the Ludwigshafen chemical site with green electricity and enable CO 2 -free production of hydrogen.

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A wind farm in Texas will help power Rivian’s Adventure Network

Electrek

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Rivian will power its DC fast-charging network with renewable energy company RWE’s Champion Wind farm in Texas.

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Wind Texas Power Powered

bp and EnBW successful in ScotWind offshore wind bid; potential generating capacity of 2.9GW, up to £10B of investment

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2022

bp and EnBW have been awarded a lease option off the east coast of Scotland to develop a major offshore wind project to be known as Morven. The E1 lease is in an advantaged area, allowing the partners to develop it as a fixed-bottom offshore wind project with a total generating capacity of around 2.9

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This renewables giant is going to use wooden wind turbine towers

Electrek

MARCH 31, 2023

Swedish startup Modvion is going to supply power giant RWE Renewables with wooden wind turbine towers for future onshore wind farms. more… The post This renewables giant is going to use wooden wind turbine towers appeared first on Electrek.

Wind

Wind Renewable Supplies Future

Mercedes amps up renewables push with 140MW wind power deal

Teslarati

MARCH 30, 2023

Mercedes has announced a new wind power deal to ensure it reaches carbon neutrality as soon as possible. Countless automotive industry giants have become involved in the renewable energy sector , with varying levels of involvement. Mercedes will begin to receive power from the Iberdrola Baltic wind project starting in 2027.

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Liquid Wind to partner with Sundsvall Energi on second electrofuel facility; eMethanol for shipping

Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2022

Sundsvall Energi will partner with Liquid Wind to be the host and provide carbon dioxide for the second commercial-scale—100,000 t—electrofuel facility in Sweden. Biogenic carbon dioxide from the Sundsvall energy facility will be captured and combined with renewable hydrogen to generate green electrofuel, eMethanol.

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Renewables have overtaken fossil fuel as Italy’s main power source

Teslarati

JULY 21, 2024

According to a statement last week from Italy’s grid operator, renewable energy overtook fossil fuels as the lead source of electricity generation in the first six months of the year. The increase in renewables was driven largely by hydroelectric power, which saw a record production increase of 64.8 percent and 18.2 to 3:00 p.m.,

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Renewable Power Powered Italy

bp and Oman form strategic partnership to progress significant renewable energy and hydrogen development

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2022

bp and the Ministry of Energy and Minerals in Oman signed a Strategic Framework Agreement (SFA) and a Renewables Data Collection Agreement which will support the potential development of a multiple gigawatt, world-class renewable energy and green hydrogen development in Oman by 2030.

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BloombergNEF reports 11% year-on-year rise in renewable energy financing in the first half of 2022, for a total of $226B

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2022

Global investment in renewable energy totaled $226 billion in the first half of 2022, setting a new record for the first six months of a year, according to Renewable Energy Investment Tracker 2H 2022, a new report published by research firm BloombergNEF (BNEF). Wind project financing was up 16% from 1H 2021, at $84 billion.

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Renewables now make up 30% of US power capacity – FERC

Electrek

AUGUST 21, 2024

Renewables – solar, wind, biomass, geothermal, hydropower – are now 30% of total US electrical generating capacity, according to analysis of FERC’s mid-year data.

Renewable

Renewable Wind Power Powered

Ørsted proposes to develop one of the world’s largest renewable hydrogen plants: SeaH2Land

Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2021

Ørsted, the world’s leading offshore wind developer, together with the major industrial companies in the North Sea Port cluster, have launched the SeaH2Land vision for a gigawatt scale project to reduce carbon emissions in the Dutch-Flemish industrial cluster with renewable hydrogen.

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Hydrogen Renewable Wind Connect

600 MWh Tesla Megapacks to support Ørsted Wind Farm in the UK

Teslarati

JUNE 13, 2024

600 MWh Tesla Megapacks will be installed on the same site as Ørsted’s Hornsea 3 Offshore Wind Farm in eastern England. Ørsted’s Hornsea 3 Offshore Wind Farm is located near Norwich, Norfolk, in Swardeston. Our 12 operational UK offshore wind farms are providing a huge amount of clean energy to the grid.

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bp & Ørsted to produce green H2 at Lingen refinery; industrial-scale electrolyzer powered by offshore wind

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

renewable power, producing zero emissions. This will be powered by renewable energy generated by an Ørsted offshore ?wind wind farm in the North Sea and the hydrogen produced will be used in the refinery.?. When powered by renewable ?energy, Renewable hydrogen has to become cost ?competitive west Germany.

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Statkraft to supply renewable power for Fortescue’s Holmaneset 300 MW green hydrogen & green ammonia project

Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2023

Fortescue Future Industries (FFI) has secured renewable power for its proposed Holmaneset green energy project , entering into a long-term Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Statkraft. FFI undertook a Scoping Study across Norway to identify potential locations for the development of renewable energy and port facilities.

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Why repowering wind farms is wind power’s next big thing

Baua Electric

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Photo: Exus Renewables North America Renewables developer Exus Renewables North America is giving a $200 million upgrade to Somerset County, Pennsylvania’s 139 megawatt (MW) Twin Ridges Wind Farm – here’s why repowering projects like this are the future of the wind industry.

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Wind North America Solar Tax Credit

H2@Scale project launched in Texas; renewable hydrogen for multiple end-use applications

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The project is supported by DOE’s Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office within the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. The project partners will generate zero-carbon hydrogen onsite via electrolysis with solar and wind power and reformation of renewable natural gas from a Texas landfill.

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Texas Hydrogen Renewable Austin

Cepsa to invest €3B in Andalusia to build the largest green hydrogen hub in Europe; additional €2B for renewable power

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2022

To generate the renewable electricity needed to feed production of green hydrogen, Cepsa will develop a 3GW portfolio of wind and solar energy projects with an additional €2-billion investment. It also has one of the highest wind and solar photovoltaic power generation and production capacity in Europe, and at the lowest cost.

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Hydrogen Renewable Green Europe

IRENA sees renewable hydrogen at least cost-possible within decade

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Hydrogen produced with renewable electricity could compete on costs with fossil fuel alternatives by 2030, according to a new report from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). For that, today’s manufacturing capacity of less than 1 GW would have to massively grow beyond 100 GW in the next 10 to 15 years.

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Hydrogen Renewable Low Cost Green

RWE and ArcelorMittal intend to build and operate offshore wind farms and hydrogen facilities for low-emissions steelmaking

Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2022

Energy company RWE and steel producer ArcelorMittal have signed a memorandum of understanding to work together to develop, build and operate offshore wind farms and hydrogen facilities that will supply the renewable energy and green hydrogen required to produce low-emissions steel in Germany.

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Heavy-lift drones are flying cargo to offshore wind turbines in 4 minutes

Electrek

AUGUST 7, 2024

Danish renewables giant Ørsted is deploying heavy-lift cargo drones for the first time in an operational campaign at a Dutch offshore wind farm.

Wind

Wind Renewable

Successful demonstration of FlexMethanol conversion of wind power to methanol

Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2020

In Germany, BSE Engineering and the Institute for Renewable Energy Systems at Stralsund University of Applied Sciences (IRES) have demonstrated the conversion of wind power into renewable methanol. Operation of this technology under dynamic conditions will be confirmed during a year-long test.

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Naturgy and Enagás studying production of green hydrogen from 350 MW of wind power in Asturias

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Naturgy and Enagás are studying the production of green hydrogen from a 250MW floating offshore wind farm and another 100MW onshore wind farm in Asturias (Spain) for industrial consumption in this Autonomous Region.

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Wind Hydrogen Green Powered

Final turbine installed on France’s first offshore wind farm, with Macron pushing hard on renewables

Electrek

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Installation of all 80 offshore wind turbines off the west coast of France has been completed, with France’s first offshore wind farm scheduled to be up and running by the end of the year. The post Final turbine installed on France’s first offshore wind farm, with Macron pushing hard on renewables appeared first on Electrek.

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The world’s single-largest wind farm gets the green light

Electrek

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Danish renewables giant Ørsted just committed to building the world’s single-largest offshore wind farm, Hornsea 3. more… The post The world’s single-largest wind farm gets the green light appeared first on Electrek.

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Shearwater Energy developing SMR wind-hybrid energy project; selects NuScale Power

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2021

a United Kingdom-based hybrid clean energy company, is developing a wind-SMR (Small Modular Reactor) and hydrogen production hybrid energy project in North Wales. As international renewable energy portfolios grow, this collaboration highlights the increasing momentum and need for more flexible and reliable low-carbon energy generation.

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Wind Energy Power Powered

Biden Administration launching offshore wind offensive

Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2021

The Biden Administration announced a series of measures to support rapid offshore wind deployment, including designation of a new wind energy area and targeting the deployment of 30 GW of offshore wind by 2030. New Wind Energy Area. Deploying 30 GW of Offshore Wind by 2030.

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bp to enter German offshore wind market with 4GW auction win

Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2023

bp has been awarded the rights to develop two offshore wind projects in the German tender round, marking its entry into offshore wind in continental Europe. bp will lead the development, construction and operations of these fixed-bottom offshore wind projects, with grid connection targeted by end 2030.

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EDP, TechnipFMC and partners to develop a concept study for green hydrogen production from offshore wind: BEHYOND

Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2021

BEHYOND brings together global players in energy, EDP and TechnipFMC, with the CEiiA research center - Center for Engineering and Development; WavEC Offshore Renewables; and the University of South-Eastern Norway (USN). EDP, through the participation of EDP NEW and EDP Inovação, is the project.

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Wind Hydrogen Green Concept

Renewables to overtake coal as largest global electricity source in 2025

Teslarati

JANUARY 15, 2024

During the COP28 climate conference held in Dubai last month, world leaders from over 130 national governments agreed to set a goal to triple world renewable energy installations by 2030. There are still some big hurdles to overcome, including the difficult global macroeconomic environment.”

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IIASA-led study proposes Underground Gravity Energy Storage as long-term energy storage solution for renewables

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2023

Renewable energy sources are central to the energy transition toward a more sustainable future. However, because sunshine and wind are inherently variable and inconsistent, finding ways to store energy in an accessible and efficient way is crucial.

Energy Storage

Energy Storage Energy Renewable Store

BNEF projects impact of COVID-19 on renewables, energy storage, EVs, etc.

Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2020

BloombergNEF has issued a research note highlighting some of the likely effects of the coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak over the next year on the transition to a clean economy: including renewable power, energy storage, electric vehicles, heating, cooling and the circular economy.

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Energy Storage Renewable Energy Asia

Mercedes-Benz Cars plants to source electricity from German wind farms

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Mercedes-Benz Cars has entered into a power purchase agreement with Statkraft, Europe’s largest producer of renewable energy, enabling Mercedes-Benz Cars to source electricity directly from wind farms in Germany, whose subsidies from the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) expire after 2020.

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Gigastack renewable hydrogen from offshore wind project advances to next phase; 100MW electrolyzer system

Why repowering wind farms is wind power’s next big thing

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Sandia innovation eliminates reliance on rare-earth magnets for large-scale wind turbines

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California Energy Commission adopts offshore wind goals: 5GW by 2030, 25 GW by 2045

Nacero awards 20-year wind power purchase agreement to NextEra for natural gas-to-gasoline plant in Texas

Mercedes-Benz plans wind farm at Papenburg test track to cover more than 15% of Group’s electricity needs in Germany

Ørsted and partners secure funding for H2RES project; offshore wind power to produce renewable hydrogen for road transport

W2Power: Innovative floating wind technology to transform the renewable energy landscape

Mercedes-Benz to source CO2-free electricity in Germany from solar, wind and hydropower from 2022 onwards

Siemens Gamesa and Siemens Energy investing €120M over 5 years to develop fully integrated offshore wind-to-hydrogen system

3 Oil Majors That Bet Big On Renewables

BASF and RWE proposing 2GW offshore wind farm for green electricity and hydrogen for chemical industry

A wind farm in Texas will help power Rivian’s Adventure Network

bp and EnBW successful in ScotWind offshore wind bid; potential generating capacity of 2.9GW, up to £10B of investment

This renewables giant is going to use wooden wind turbine towers

Mercedes amps up renewables push with 140MW wind power deal

Liquid Wind to partner with Sundsvall Energi on second electrofuel facility; eMethanol for shipping

Renewables have overtaken fossil fuel as Italy’s main power source

bp and Oman form strategic partnership to progress significant renewable energy and hydrogen development

BloombergNEF reports 11% year-on-year rise in renewable energy financing in the first half of 2022, for a total of $226B

Renewables now make up 30% of US power capacity – FERC

Ørsted proposes to develop one of the world’s largest renewable hydrogen plants: SeaH2Land

600 MWh Tesla Megapacks to support Ørsted Wind Farm in the UK

bp & Ørsted to produce green H2 at Lingen refinery; industrial-scale electrolyzer powered by offshore wind

Statkraft to supply renewable power for Fortescue’s Holmaneset 300 MW green hydrogen & green ammonia project

Why repowering wind farms is wind power’s next big thing

H2@Scale project launched in Texas; renewable hydrogen for multiple end-use applications

Cepsa to invest €3B in Andalusia to build the largest green hydrogen hub in Europe; additional €2B for renewable power

IRENA sees renewable hydrogen at least cost-possible within decade

RWE and ArcelorMittal intend to build and operate offshore wind farms and hydrogen facilities for low-emissions steelmaking

Heavy-lift drones are flying cargo to offshore wind turbines in 4 minutes

Successful demonstration of FlexMethanol conversion of wind power to methanol

Naturgy and Enagás studying production of green hydrogen from 350 MW of wind power in Asturias

Final turbine installed on France’s first offshore wind farm, with Macron pushing hard on renewables

The world’s single-largest wind farm gets the green light

Shearwater Energy developing SMR wind-hybrid energy project; selects NuScale Power

Biden Administration launching offshore wind offensive

bp to enter German offshore wind market with 4GW auction win

EDP, TechnipFMC and partners to develop a concept study for green hydrogen production from offshore wind: BEHYOND

Renewables to overtake coal as largest global electricity source in 2025

IIASA-led study proposes Underground Gravity Energy Storage as long-term energy storage solution for renewables

BNEF projects impact of COVID-19 on renewables, energy storage, EVs, etc.

Mercedes-Benz Cars plants to source electricity from German wind farms

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