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Total invests in 30MW French floater

Total has become a 20% shareholder in the 30MW Eolmed floating wind farm pilot project in France.

Ignitis wraps up 170MW Polish solar deal

Energy outfit Ignitis has acquired a 170MW portfolio of solar parks in Poland from developer Sun Investment Group.

Foresight acquires Spanish solar

Foresight Solar has announced the acquisition of its first Spanish solar asset, the consented 26.1 MW Virgen del Carmen solar farm, based in Hue…

Greenpeace urges Denmark to end fossil fuel production

Greenpeace activists are peacefully occupying the Dan Bravo oil rig to demand a complete phase out of fossil fuel production in Denmark and a "m…

Siemens Gamesa ratifies CEO as board executive director

Siemens Gamesa has ratified its new chief executive, Andreas Nauen (pictured), as executive director on the board at its 2020 General Shareholde…

Vattenfall chief executive resigns

Vattenfall's president and chief executive, Magnus Hall, has decided to leave the company.

Van Oord installs Borssele 1&2 array cables

Van Oord has successfully completed installation of array cables to connect turbines at Orsted's Borssele 1&2 offshore wind farm off the coast o…

Swedish timber tower outfit secures EU cash

Swedish engineering company Modvion has been granted €6.5m in EU funding to support manufacturing of its wooden turbine towers.

EBRD funds back Polish wind and solar

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is providing five loans totalling €63m to support French renewable energy developer…

Wind farm workers injured in CTV accident off Germany

Three wind farm workers have been injured, including one seriously, after their crew transfer vessel struck a turbine at the 312MW Borkum Riffgr…

BayWa offloads 80MW Dutch solar

BayWa Renewable Energy has sold seven photovoltaic parks in the Netherlands totalling 80MW to Encavis Asset Management.

MHI Vestas appoints Asia Pacific chief

MHI Vestas has assigned Masato Yamada as regional manager for Asia Pacific, to head up expansion in the region.

Aquila swoops for Danish wind

Aquila European Renewables Income Fund (AERIF) intends to increase its existing investment in Denmark's Svindbaek Vindkraft HoldCo by acquiring…

Djibouti debut for Siemens Gamesa

Siemens Gamesa is to supply turbines for a 59MW wind farm project in Djibouti, in east Africa.

European Energy inks 3TWh RWE supply deal

Danish renewables developer European Energy is to deliver 3 terrawatt-hours of electricity to RWE under a multi-year off-take agreement.

DEME consortium plans Ostend green hydrogen drive

A Belgian group is planning to construct a facility in the Port of Ostend by 2025 to produce green hydrogen from offshore wind-generated electri…

Wind power at the 'core' of EU green deal

The wind energy industry is poised to significantly expand to help the EU deliver the Green Deal, according to WindEurope.

BayWa offloads 17MW Austrian wind

BayWa RE has completed an over 17MW wind farm in Austria and sold the project to a German insurance company advised by Encavis Asset Management…