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19 June 2013
The National Renewable Energy Centre (Narec) in Northumberland, UK will play host to the testing of Samsung’s 7MW offshore wind turbine.
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19 June 2013
The Highland Council’s North Planning Applications Committee has approved plans by Beatrice Offshore Windfarm, a joint venture partnership formed between SSE Renewables and Repsol Nuevas Energias UK, for the Outer Moray Firth offshore wind farm.
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19 June 2013
Mainstream Renewable Power has been granted planning consent by East Lothian Council for the onshore cable works to connect its 450MW Neart na Gaoithe offshore wind farm, set to be located off the Scottish coast, to the National Grid.
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19 June 2013
Google’s innovation hub is reportedly working on a green power project that will provide an alternative wind turbine and ‘have an important role to play’ in future energy production, executive Astro Teller has revealed.
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19 June 2013
Danish institutional investor PensionDanmark is to invest $100m in the first offshore wind farm in the US, Cape Wind, through a fund managed by Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners.
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19 June 2013
Energy-focused global private equity firm Denham Capital has launched Endeavor Energy with a seed commitment of $100m to focus on projects across Africa.
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18 June 2013
RWE has formally submitted plans for a 1.2GW Atlantic Array that it will look to build in the British Channel.
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18 June 2013
Canadian clean power producer Innergex Renewable Energy has extended its $425m revolving term credit facility with a new five-year term ending in 2018.
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18 June 2013
Germany’s third largest utility EnBW Energie Baden-Wuerttemberg has revealed a major €7bn renewable energy investment plan, which will see it dispose of €2.7bn of assets to fund growth in the green sector.
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18 June 2013
Former President Bill Clinton and leaders from six Sioux Indian Tribes have unveiled a new wind power initiative that will harness South Dakota's greatest natural resource and spur up to $3bn of long-term development into the region.
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17 June 2013
Salka Energy has been launched as a renewable energy development company by a senior ex-Gamesa executive and backed by Gulf-based ultra-high net worth investment group Wofi Capital.
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17 June 2013
The CFO of China Ming Yang Wind Power Vincent Panghas has stepped down with immediate effect and will be replaced by Calvin Laujoined who currently works as his assistant.
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17 June 2013
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency has launched a A$400m($384m) fund in an effort to generate 150MW of clean power.
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17 June 2013
The Overseas Private Investment Corporation has approved financing for the 50MW Melowind farm being developed in Uruguay.
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17 June 2013
Wine turbines maker Vestas has received an order for 42MW from Eko Energija, a portfolio business of EnerCap Power Funds, for a project in the province of Obrovac, Croatia.
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14 June 2013
Offshore turbine installer A2Sea has installed its 1,000th wind turbine after 12-years in the business.
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14 June 2013
Eurus Energy has had its plans for the Glenkirk wind farm rejected by Scotland’s Finance Secretary John Swinney.
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14 June 2013
European wind turbine manufacturer Nordex has secured its third major contract in South Africa by Cennergi, the joint venture between Tata Power and Exxaro.
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14 June 2013
Investment manager Ashburton has launched a global energy fund as part of a new UCITS range.
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14 June 2013
The North American division of energy consultancy PMSS will provide project management advice to US offshore wind developer Cape Wind.
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