Posts Tagged ‘spain’
4 October 2011
Private equity firm First Reserve has made a strategic investment in renewable energy developer Abengoa.
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21 September 2011
German engineering giant Siemens has delivered high-voltage direct-current technology to that allowed Red Eléctrica de España to link Mallorca with the Spanish mainland via an electricity highway laid in the Mediterranian, allowing the flow of clean energy.
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8 September 2011
Germany-based electronics giant Siemens has been contracted to supply and construct a 50MW concentrated solar power plant in Spain.
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12 August 2011
UK private equity firm Bridgepoint has announced it will acquire wind energy assets from listed Spanish construction conglomerate ACS, in a deal which will value the portfolio at €596.5m.
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9 August 2011
Spanish solar company Pevafersa has filed for voluntary redundancy, causing the future of the company to be in doubt. It has not yet been made clear whether creditors will be looking for investors or a buyer for the company.
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28 July 2011
Spanish utility Iberdrola and wind energy company Gamesa have ended their strategic arrangement for the development of wind farms, citing global economic conditions changing the companies’ strategies.
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25 July 2011
Renewable investment vehicle the European Solar Power Fund has purchased a 9.9MW solar farm in the west of Spain from photovoltaics developer First Solar.
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21 July 2011
Spanish utility Iberdrola has fought off the tough economic climate by recorded a 6.6 per cent rise in first half year earnings to €1.56bn as the company totalled a record amount of renewable energy capacity.
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20 July 2011
Spanish renewable energy company Acciona has connected the 50MW Palma del Rio concentrated solar plant to the grid in Cordoba province, Spain.
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18 July 2011
Spanish renewables company Acciona Energy and military ship-builders Navantia have signed a cooperation agreement in the field of offshore wind. The companies will combine technological expertise on a series of projects to construct offshore wind farms.
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5 July 2011
Spanish pulp and biomass group Grupo Empresarial Ence will look to close a further €80m in financing by the end of the year to progress the build of a renewable energy project in Spain.
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4 July 2011
European Union structural funds will give a boost to energy efficiency and renewable energy through a new fund launched by the European Investment Bank and the Spanish Energy Saving and Diversification Institute.
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29 June 2011
Spanish solar energy company the Solarig Group increased its operating profit by 171 per cent last year, witnessing a rise to €13.12m in 2010 from €4.84m in 2009.
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24 June 2011
Spanish electricity company REE has inaugurated a key transmission asset, which will aid the deployment of renewable energies in the Ebro valley.
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14 June 2011
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6 June 2011
Spanish oil company Repsol Nuevas Energias has entered the UK offshore wind market as Aberdeen-based SeaEnergy disposes of its renewables unit for £50m, while it refocuses on the oil, gas and marine renewables markets.
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1 June 2011
Shareholders of the renewables unit of Spanish utility Iberdrola have almost unanimously approved the absorption of Iberdrola Renovables back into the parent group.
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20 May 2011
Qsolar, which recently went public, said it has completed two pilot projects in Spain and Italy for the demonstration of its range of products to potential customers.
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13 May 2011
Spanish wind turbine manufacturer Gamesa generated all of its sales in the first quarter of the year from customers outside of its domestic market.
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4 May 2011
Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas, the Spain-based parent company of the UK’s Waste Recycling Group, is to build a waste management plant under a new €322m contract.
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