Renewables have helped Munich utility Stadtwerke Munchen post record operational earnings before interest and tax of €615m in 2017, up 19% on the €518m recorded in the previous year. Stadtwerke Munchen holds a 49% stake in Vattenfall’s 288MW Sandbank offshore wind farm off the coast of Germany, which was fully [...]

The developers of the up to 800MW Bay State Wind offshore project are to provide over $2m in grants for research into the protection of fish and whale populations in the lease zone off Massachusetts. The Bay State Wind Marine Science Grant Program will provide $1m for research focusing on [...]

ScottishPower Renewables has awarded a £4m contract to Turner Iceni to provide support for the construction of the 714MW East Anglia 1 offshore wind farm. The Lowestoft-based marine services company will provide crew transfer vessels for the construction and commissioning phases of the £2.5bn project. The company will use up [...]

Louisiana company Keystone Engineering has designed the met tower and supporting structure to be installed off Ocean City, Maryland. US Wind will build the anemometer on the site of its proposed 32-turbine Maryland offshore wind farm some 17 miles from shore. Keystone will use its braced-caisson foundation concept, a forbearer [...]

Eon has installed the jacket foundation for the offshore substation of its 385MW Arkona offshore wind farm in the German Baltic Sea. The 1000-tonne substructure was built by STX France in Saint-Nazaire. Seaway Heavy Lifting vessel Oleg Strashnov is on the job. The heavy-lift crane is slated to install the 4000-tonne offshore substation topside during the next [...]

Wave Energy Scotland has awarded a total of £632,500 to three control system concepts to further develop their ideas. SgurrControl was granted £187,409 for its project co-developed with Cruz Atcheson while MaxSim scooped £187,500 for its submission, which builds on experience from several Scottish wave energy companies. The final project [...]

Vestas is to supply turbines totalling 51MW to two wind farms under development by subsidiaries of Fri-El in Italy. The Danish manufacturer will deliver and install six V117-3.3MW machines for Fri-El Albareto's Albareto project in the region of Emilia Romagna It will also supply 14 V110-2.0MW turbines optimised to 2.2MW for [...]

Omers Infrastructure Management is to acquire US outfit Leeward Renewable Energy from ArcLight Capital Partners for an undisclosed price. Leeward has 19 operating wind projects across the US totalling 1.7GW. The acquisition is expected to close in the third quarter of 2018 and is subject to "customary approvals". Omers Infrastructure [...]

Siemens Gamesa is to supply turbines totalling 18MW for the Chimiche 2 wind farm under development by Iberdrola and local partners on the Spanish island of Tenerife. Under the terms of the deal, seven 2.6-114 machines will be installed this year at the project in the town of Granadilla de [...]

Plans for a £127m power plant to provide electricity for a Pembrokeshire oil refinery have been given the go ahead. The Milford Haven refinery, owned by Texan company Valero, employs more than 1,200 workers and contractors. It is the first project of its kind in Wales to planning receive permission [...]

Suzlon Group has won turbine orders totalling 500MW for two unnamed wind farms in the Gujarat region of India. The 300MW and 200MW projects will feature a total of 238 S111 2.1MW machines and will be located in the Kutch district. Suzlon will carry out the work on a turnkey basis [...]

Ormeus Coin is sourcing electricity from the 2GW Moses-Saunders hydro project on the US-Canada border for a new cryto-currency mining operation. The hydro project, near the Niagara Falls, has just over 1GW of capacity on the Canadian side of the border and 912MW in New York state in the US. [...]