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It’s official: London Array the largest wind farm in the world
London Array has officially become the world’s biggest operational offshore wind farm. Last week, 141 of the 175 turbines turned to produce power for the first time, providing 507MW of capacity. The project is a joint venture between Danish firm DONG Energy (50%), UK energy giant E.ON (30%) and Abu Dhabi renewable company Masdar (20%).
read more... 11/03/2013
UK’s Centrica to strike the first LNG deal with U.S.
Centrica, UK’s biggest household energy supplier envisages signing a long-term LNG import deal with U.S. companies, as UK is facing difficulties finding new natural gas supply sources to meet its increasing import demand as global price variations and new gas discoveries are favoring carrying the gas to Asia instead of Europe.
read more... 11/03/2013
TGC Renewables debuts plans for new solar farm in Cambridgeshire
TGC Renewables, an independent renewable energy project developer, has applied for planning permission for its proposed 13MW solar park in Cambridgeshire, England. The proposed solar farm will see 58 hectares of low-grade agricultural land in the South West of Cambridge holding up to 55,000 PV modules, which will be enough to power about 3,300 homes, while also giving the farm a guaranteed rental income for the next 25 years.
read more... 07/03/2013
SSE has announced its retreating from Scotland-Norway Project
British utility SSE has announced it is retreating from a project to build a subsea electricity cable linking Scotland and Norway. SSE is one of the U.K.'s six major energy providers, and it added also that it will no longer have a financial involvement in the NorthConnect project as it intends to focus on investments in its domestic markets.
read more... 07/03/2013
China surpassed the United States as the world’s top oil importer
China has surpassed the United States as the world’s biggest net importer of oil after, the U.S. posted its lowest import records since 1992 on the back of flourishing domestic oil production. According to provisional figures from the US Energy Information Administration US net oil imports dropped to 5.98m barrels a day in December, the lowest since February 1992, while China’s own figures rose to 6.12 million bpd.
read more... 06/03/2013