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Statoil will invest in a new renewable project in Scotland
Statoil has recently announced that it intends to invest about 236 million dollars in a new renewable project in Scotland. They talk about building the first floating wind farm off the Scottish coast, near Buchan Deep. The project will consist of five floating 6MW turbines totaling 30MW, which should be enough to power 20,000 homes.
read more... 04/11/2015
RWE commissions two new onshore wind power plants in Poland
RWE Polska, part of German energy group RWE, has commissioned two wind farms in Poland with a combined capacity of 45 MW, boosting the company's total capacity in the country to around 240 MW, which can supply annually an equivalent of 250,000 homes with green electricity.
read more... 21/10/2015
Solar power market growth in Europe down by 36% in 2014
The solar power market growth in Europe decelerated in 2014 with a total of 7 gigawatts (GW) of capacity added, or a decline of 36 percent from the previous year because of reductions in support schemes, as stated by Europe's solar industry association EPIA.
read more... 14/10/2015
Total aims to have 8 percent of French B2B power market
Total Energie Gaz, a unit of oil and gas major Total, declared on Tuesday that it had entered the French business-to-business retail power market with the intention of seizing several eight percent of the market within 10 years.
read more... 30/09/2015
Total aims to invest $500 million per year in renewable energy
Total SA intends to invest $500 million a year in green energy, a step by Europe’s second-most important oil and gas firm to grow in biofuels and solar.
read more... 25/09/2015