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Portugal to auction 3-4 GW of floating offshore wind farms in summer
Portugal plans to hold its first auction for floating offshore farms this summer, which it hopes will be able to produce between 3 and 4 gigawatts (GW) of power in 2026, Environment and Energy Transition minister Joao Matos Fernandes told Reuters.
read more... 17/03/2022
50Hertz to invest €5.6bn in offshore grid connections
The electricity transmission system operator 50Hertz is to focus its investments on the grid connections of large offshore wind farms in the Baltic and North Seas.
read more... 03/03/2022
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European wind power lobby demands more permits to ease bottlenecks
Europe's wind power trade association called on Thursday for more permits to build new wind farms, which it said had been slowed by bottlenecks in granting permissions, despite growing demand for green power.
read more... 25/02/2022
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Fortum picks up 800GWh Finnish PPA
Chemical manufacturer Borealis has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Fortum to source 800 gigawatt-hours of electricity from two onshore wind farms to be built in Finland.
read more... 18/02/2022
Macron presents France’s long-term ‘nuclear-heavy’ energy plan
Multiplying solar energy capacity tenfold, deploying around fifty offshore wind farms and building six EPR 2 nuclear reactors. These are all part of France’s long-term energy plan President Emmanuel Macron detailed on Thursday (10 February). EURACTIV France reports.
read more... 14/02/2022