Siemens Gamesa has reached an agreement to sell its power electronics business to ABB. The business – part of Gamesa Electric – designs and manufactures converters, inverters and control cabinets for ...

SSE’s 101MW Yellow River wind farm in Rhode, County Offaly, Ireland is producing first power. The landmark moment for the project comes following the successful connection and energisation of Yellow ...

Hitachi Energy has signed over €2bn worth of contracts with German transmission system operator Amprion for four converter stations for two high voltage direct current links. The orders follow from a ...

Macquarie Asset Management, on behalf of its institutional clients, has provided approximately €420m of debt financing to Nadara, one of Europe’s largest renewable independent power producers. Nadara ...

A four-year project has found that using less material in offshore wind turbine construction can reduce the cost per unit of produced energy by up to 9%. In the HIPERWIND project, EPRI Europe ...

VSB Group has commissioned the 148MW Karahka wind farm in Finland’s Northern Ostrobothnia region. Owned by the Finnish utility company Helen and the Bank of Aland Wind Power Special Investment Fund, ...

OX2 has won contracts in Poland for two energy storage units with a total capacity of 200MW. The developer was awarded the deals for two battery energy storage systems units in the main market auction ...

Cubico Sustainable Investments has achieved financial close for the 252MW Wambo Stage 1 and 254MW Wambo Stage 2 wind farms in Queensland, Australia. The financial close secures two separate five-year ...

Boralex has won planning permission for a 49.9MW Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) development in Scotland, its first such scheme in the UK. The Highland Council approved the Loch Toftingall ...

A 353MW solar farm in New South Wales (NSW), Australia, has entered into operation. Fotowatio Renewable Ventures (FRV) Australia, part of Jameel Energy and Canadian infrastructure fund OMERS, built ...

ScottishPower Renewables and Orsted are celebrating a decade of delivery in offshore wind as West of Duddon Sands wind farm (pictured) marks its tenth year of operation. Built and operated as a 50/50 ...

The UK government’s Clean Power Action Plan has been hailed as a “landmark moment” for the energy sector. Stakeholders in the industry have welcomed measures outlined by Energy Secretary Ed Miliband ...