Enel Rinnovabile has won the right to develop four wind farms totalling 593MW in Mexico in the Latin American country’s third electricity auction. The largest project is the 244MW Dolores wind farm, which will be built in the municipality of China in the state of Nuevo León. The other three [...]

French asset manager Acofi Gestion has acquired two wind farms totalling 30MW from RES. The projects are the 18MW Monts de l’Ain and 12MW Bois de Bajouve facilities, which came online in October. Monts de l’Ain comprises nine Senvion 2MW turbines, while Monts de l’Ain features six Vestas 2MW machines. [...]

Cabling outfit NKT increased operational earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) to €43.8m in the third quarter of 2017, up almost 114% on the €20.5m reported in the same period last year. The company said strong momentum in the offshore wind sector driven by acquisitions was behind the improved performance. [...]

Openreach chair Mike McTighe says the carrier has concluded its consultation on how to deliver fibre-to-the-premises connections across Britain by the year 2025 and will deliver its plan to do so “before Christmas”. “We will be publishing Openreach's response to that consultation before Christmas, and in that we will put [...]

Eon’s renewables earnings before income tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) fell to €508m in the first nine months of 2017, from €584m in the same period last year. Adverse wind conditions in the UK impacted earnings, as well as the “non-recurrence of a book gain recorded in the prior-year period”, the [...]

EDF Energy Renewables has sold a majority stake in five English wind farms to investment outfit Greencoat in a £98m deal. The utility developer will retain a 20% stake in the portfolio, which comprises the 16.4MW Deeping St Nicholas (pictured), 12.3MW Red House, 16.4MW Glass Moor, 24.6MW Red Tile and [...]

A reinvestment of £6 million into the on-going Broadband East Riding project in Yorkshire (England) will enable Openreach(BT) to extend their existing FTTC, FTTP and FTTRN rollout of “superfast broadband” (24Mbps+) in the region to an additional 2,200 homes and businesses. At present nearly 90% of premises in the East Riding of Yorkshire area can already access [...]

Palfinger Marine is to supply cranes for the 203MW Borkum West 2.2, 497MW Hohe See and 112MW Albatros offshore wind farms in the German North Sea. The company will deliver 32 hydraulic foldable knuckle boom PK40002M cranes for the nacelles and 32 electro-hydraulic stiff boom PSM400 cranes for platforms at [...]

The £428m Digital Scotland (DSSB) project with BT (Openreach) has said they’re on-course to extend fixed line “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) coverage to 95% of Scottish homes and businesses by the end of 2017. So far they’ve reached a total of 800,000 additional premises since the scheme began. Back in June 2017 the programme announced [...]

Chinese outfit CRRC Zhuzhou Electric is to supply generators for Senvion’s 3.7M144 turbine platform, under a strategic framework contract signed by the two companies. Under the terms of the contract, CRRC will provide a minimum of 50% of generators for the 3.7M144 unit, at least 100 pieces in the next three [...]

The facility would test prototypes of various rotor components for use in wind turbines, the company said. Plans filed with Southampton council feature a 3680 metre-square prototype hall, a 6957 metre-square testing area and a large blade storage area along the quayside. The council is currently consulting with locals over the designs [...]

Innogy has become the sole owner of the 860MW Triton Knoll wind farm in the UK after acquiring partner Statkraft’s 50% stake in the project. The German developer said it will now progress the project to a final investment decision due for mid-2018. Innogy chief operations officer Hans Bünting said [...]