- EBRD arranging syndicated loan of €150 million to SyvashEnergoProm
- Project to be co-financed by Green for Growth Fund, FMO and NEFCO
- EBRD’s latest investment under USELF III achieves significant CO2 reductions
News

18 Dec | Mercedes-Benz deal to buy wind power is first PPA in Germany

17 Dec | Lower prices for onshore wind in second Greek renewables auction

06 Dec | Support for wind energy in Ireland continues to grow
- More than four in five (83%) back wind energy
- Significant increases in support for wind cutting CO2 emissions and providing cheaper electricity
- 55% in favour of a wind farm being developed in their local area

03 Dec | Technology neutral tender 2018 determined
The technology neutral tender round for 2018 has now been determined and has resulted in a record low level of aid to onshore wind turbines and solar PV. The budget for the tender round was DKK 254 million (2018 prices).

24 Jan | EBRD supports largest windfarm in Ukraine
- EBRD arranging syndicated loan of €150 million to SyvashEnergoProm
- Project to be co-financed by Green for Growth Fund, FMO and NEFCO
- EBRD’s latest investment under USELF III achieves significant CO2 reductions

17 Jan | WFW advises UniCredit on Bel Lavello wind park project financing
Watson Farley & Williams (“WFW”) advised UniCredit S.p.A. (“Unicredit”) on the long-term project financing, through its Infrastructure & Power Project Finance division, of the Bel Lavello wind park, located in the southern Italian region of Basilicata.

16 Jan | ABO Wind continues its successful cooperation with CEZ
- Czech supplier purchases second wind farm portfolio with a total capacity of up to 116.5 megawatts
- Sold projects will receive remuneration via former market bonus system
- ABO Wind is working on future wind and solar projects with a total of approx. 900 megawatts

15 Jan | juwi builds thousandth wind turbine in the company history
Anniversary plant in Mohlis (Thuringia) is one of the first projects that juwi won in the tender process by the Federal Network Agency and which are now being constructed

16 Jan | Design Certificate of 160m Nabralift Self-Erecting Tower awarded by DNV-GL
DNV-GL has awarded Nabrawind with the Design Evaluation Conformity Statement for the first Nabralift Self-Erecting tower design, that was prototyped last summer in Eslava (Spain), with a total hub height of 160m.

07 Dec | Goodbye to the 4-Rotor Concept Turbine at Risø

16 Oct | ACCIONA developing autonomous vehicles for underwater work within the SWARMs EUROPEAN R&D programme
- These autonomous vehicles will be able to perform complex review and repair operations on underwater structures (ports, rigs, offshore wind turbines, etc.) without human intervention
- They will contribute to minimising the environmental impact of dredging operations and to early detection of high concentrations of pollutants
- The first trials were conducted in the Canary Islands, Norway and Romania

28 Sep | EDP Renewables opens pioneering battery-based energy storage facility

17 Jan | ACCIONA completely renovated wind farm service Spain
- El Cabrito, located at Tarifa (Cadiz), goes from ninety 330-kW wind turbines installed in 1995 to twelve 3-MW and 1.5-MW machines of Nordex technology
- The installation will produce 16% more clean energy with the same capacity (30 MW) as the obsolete wind farm
- The renewal has reduced its environmental impact, as well as its visual and noise profile, and makes it easier for birdlife to fly through.


09 Jan | Swedish wind farm Anneberg completed and handed over to KGAL

08 Jan | Nexans completes high voltage cable project to connect Kype Muir wind farm to Scotland’s power grid
The Scottish Government has set an ambitious target for renewable energy resources to meet 100 percent 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 megawatt (MW) Kype Muir wind farm, where Nexans has just completed a project to provide a 16 km 132 kilovolt (kV) underground grid connection for SP Energy Networks.

07 Jan | CEZ Relies for Wind Farm Management on wpd windmanager
New wind farm for the wpd windmanager GmbH & Co. KG: As of January 1, 2019, the CEZ Group assigns the operational management for the wind farm Fohren-Linden to the Bremen-based company.

28 Nov | Operational Management for Polish Wind Farm of Green Bear
Eagerly, the wind energy industry looks towards Poland. After around three years of standstill, the Polish government encourages the development of wind energy again by initiating new tenders. The results have just been published.

19 Nov | RES awarded Asset Management Services Contract by NTR for Castlecraig

08 Nov | RES Complete Major Component Replacement

04 Dec | ABB commissions first digital substations in Italy

18 Sep | Balfour Beatty innovation puts connections in pole position
Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) and Balfour Beatty have successfully energised the connection for Dorenell wind farm in Moray. The wind farm connection, which will add capacity for a further 220 MW of renewable energy to the GB transmission system, has seen the deployment of composite poles, the first time this innovative technology has been used on the GB transmission system.

03 Apr | Vestas award Roan Wind Farm contract to DELPRO Wind

08 Mar | Turkey’s TEIAS relies on ABB technology to integrate renewables

18 Dec | Highland communities in £28m funding boost
Highland communities will benefit to the tune of £28millon thanks to Britain’s newest onshore wind farm, built by SSE Renewables.

24 Sep | Increasingly Sophisticated Use of Triton Data Reflects Growing Confidence In Remote Sensing
The diverse range of applications by European wind operators and developers spans wind resource assessment, bankable due diligence and noise studies.

21 Feb | First reinforced material generated from recycled wind turbine blades

30 Oct | World first: ALE’s bespoke onshore wind tower heightening pushes engineering boundaries

10 Jul | Sarens Deploys Innovative Crane Solution at German Wind Farm
PC 3800-1 used to erect turbines at Renkenberge Wind Farm

31 May | Peikko delivers rock foundations to Sørfjord wind park in Norway

23 Feb | Global Wind Service delivering crane and installation for Čibuk 1 wind farm, Serbia

10 Jan | The Nordex Group to build two more wind farms for Vattenfall in the Netherlands

09 Jan | Senvion confirms notice to proceed for 41 MW in Spain

17 Dec | Vestas secures first order from enercity Erneuerbare GmbH in Germany

12 Dec | Senvion signs 48 MW contracts of 3.XM series in European core markets