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BP and Total win massive German $14 billion offshore wind tender
Oil and gas major players BP and TotalEnergies have emerged the winners at Germany’s 7 GW offshore wind site auction. The contract is worth a total of just shy of $14 billion.
Three sites included in the tender will produce 2 GW in the North Sea, with one Baltic Sea site generating 1 GW.
BP got the contract for two projects, equivalent to 4 GW, while TotalEnergies got the remaining two sites.
Aging Scottish windfarm to get a new lease of life with new turbines
The Hagshaw Hill wind farm is getting an upgrade three decades after commissioning. The site will receive 14 modern wind turbines to replace its aging 26 turbines. Total output will jump to 79 MW from 16 MW, with an additional 20 MW of battery storage to take more advantage of the wind power at the site.
Nordex records 1.6 GW wind power orders in Q2 2023
Nordex reports a demand of 1.62 GW of wind turbine capacity in the second quarter of 2023. This brought the total for the first half to 2.641 GW.
The average sale price was 0.89 million euros per MW in the 2nd quarter, which compared to the same quarter last year. Total orders between April and June stood at 308 from 13 markets, notably Greece, Lithuania, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
PV module maker Meyer Burger secures €200 million from €3.6 billion EU Innovation Fund
Meyer Burger becomes a beneficiary of the EU’s Innovation Fund. The Swiss company got €200 million from a total of €3.6 billion made available by the EU. The fund will go into constructing an additional 3.5 GW of solar cell and module production capacity in Germany and Spain.
40 other large-scale clean tech projects got funding from the EU, including €54 million going to Norwegian Norsun for expanding production capacity. Midsummer also received over €32 million for a new 200 MW plant for producing thin film solar cells.
Saudi Arabia signs MoU with Engie on green hydrogen projects
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) has announced on Twitter it has signed an MoU with French Engie. The agreement focuses on green hydrogen and derivatives in the Arabian kingdom.
NiSource completes 465 MW solar projects in Indiana
NiSource, through its subsidiary Northern Indiana Public Service Company (NIPSCO), has completed two solar parks in Indiana. One of them, the Indiana Crossroads Solar, located in White County, will generate 200 MW and contribute more than $42 million in taxes in the next 35 years.
The second park, Dunns Bridge I Solar in Jasper County, has a total capacity of 265 MW in the first phase. The second phase will add 435 MW of solar power with 75 MW of battery energy storage capacity.
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