The first of Inch Cape Offshore Wind Farm’s two 85km offshore export cables has been successfully installed off the east coast of Scotland. The 220kV, three-phase export cable was installed in three 28km sections by Enshore Subsea using the CMOS Installer cable lay vessel operating from the Port of Blyth. [...]

Oga Katagami Akita Offshore Green Energy has signed a contract with Kajima Corporation for the manufacturing, procurement, transportation, and installation of offshore wind turbine foundations for its 315MW project off the coast of Oga City, Katagami City, and Akita City in Akita Prefecture, Japan. The agreement marks a key milestone [...]

SSE Energy Markets has signed power purchase agreements with Capital Dynamics for electricity produced by the Garbet and Lairg 2 onshore wind farms in Scotland. The 10-year deals are in addition to the Contracts for Difference agreements held by both projects, which have a combined 95.7MW of capacity and were [...]

RWE has secured planning consent from the Welsh government for the 60MW Alwen Forest wind farm in north Wales. The project will feature nine turbines of up to 200 metres in height across Conwy and Denbighshire near Alwen Reservoir, with a grid connection planned via Clocaenog Forest substation. RWE said [...]

New government figures show that more than 73% of electricity generated in Great Britain in 2024 came from low carbon sources, up from 68% the previous year. The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero included the data in its latest Energy Trends report, the first to track progress towards [...]

EnBW has inaugurated an energy park in Gundelsheim, Baden-Württemberg that combines solar, wind and battery storage at a single site. The first element, a 58MW solar park covering 55 hectares with 110,000 modules, is already in operation and will generate electricity for around 30,000 households annually. A hybrid storage facility [...]

The co-founder of an energy firm says windfarms in Jersey and Guernsey could power millions of homes in the islands, as well as in France and the UK. Mark Leybourne, co-founder of Channel Islands-based energy firm Dyna says "both islands have got an incredible potential for offshore wind". His company [...]

(Bloomberg) -- It’s an ambitious project by any measure: 70 million solar panels, 6,000  wind turbines, and 4,500 kilometers of underwater electricity cables. All told, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s plan to deliver a carbon-free power grid by the end of this decade will require about £240 billion ($325 billion) of investment, thousands [...]

Nordex Group has received a turbine order worth 71MW in Portugal. The company will supply and install 12 of its N163/5.X turbines, which have a combined capacity of 70.8MW. The contract also includes a premium service agreement for the maintenance of the turbines over a period of 35 years. Delivery [...]

More than a quarter of Ireland’s electricity came from wind farms last month while solar power and other renewables accounted for an additional 6%, according to a new report. Wind Energy Ireland’s monthly report on wind energy revealed that 27% of electricity came from wind power in August. The report [...]

European Energy has completed the sale of a 33MW operational wind portfolio in Germany to a fund advised by EB – Sustainable Investment Management (EB-SIM). The wind projects in Saxony-Anhalt are part of a repowering initiative led by European Energy in Germany, replacing older turbines with modern, higher-capacity units. The [...]

Two wind energy projects in Germany totalling more than 86MW have secured approval, developers confirmed. The Ladenthin scheme in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania will feature six V162 turbines with a total capacity of 43.2MW, with scope for three additional units. It has been developed with Energie-Projekt-Nord since 2013 and received the green [...]