Wind Farms

The Trump administration announced on Thursday that it would audit grants of $15 billion awarded to projects involving the power grid, manufacturing supply chains and other infrastructure during the Biden Administration. Donald Trump has pushed for domestic oil, gas and coal production while also halting the construction of offshore wind farms and taking measures to relax regulations on fossil fuels. Last week, the Republican Trump administration proposed to cut billions of dollars from funding for renewable energy projects and electric car chargers. The DOE has been reviewing the billions that were rushed through the door in the last days of...

Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs are exploring the possibility of selling their majority stake in German renewable projects developer PNE. This could lead to a bid being made for the 1,09 billion euro ($1.17 billion), firm. One person said that Goldman Sachs is already contacting potential private equity investors about their interest in Morgan Stanley’s 50.06% stake, currently valued at around 543 million Euros, in PNE. The people added that the deliberations are still at an early stage, and it is not certain if a deal will happen. Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and PNE declined to comment. According to German...

U.S. President Donald Trump in his very first day of workplace on Monday suspended brand-new federal offshore wind leasing pending an ecological and economic evaluation, saying wind mills are unsightly, expensive and damage wildlife. Former President Joe Biden supported the overseas wind market, setting a target for 30 gigawatts (GW) of jobs by 2030, up from 42 megawatts at the end of 2023, triggering many European project developers to acquire leases and strategy wind farms in the United States. Trump's executive order is not anticipated to stop existing U.S. offshore wind tasks from being advanced. Below are a few of...

U.S. investor Acadia Facilities Capital and companies consisting of Microsoft are seeking to assist develop a $9 billion pipeline of renewable energy projects across the nation, the job lead told Reuters. Introducing the Environment and Communities Financial Investment Union ( CCIC) with the innovation giant as an anchor member, Acadia Vice President Brian O'Callaghan stated it was likewise talking with business in sectors including retail and consumer goods. The CCIC's factor for being is to accelerate corporate-led renewable energy financing with real tangible benefits to regional neighborhoods, O'Callaghan stated, adding it was anticipated to assist build-out around 5 gigawatts of...

GE Vernova's offshore wind turbine making plant has actually fired or suspended numerous workers in Quebec after a business examination found they took shortcuts on quality assurance, sources familiar with the matter informed Reuters. GE Vernova launched the probe at the factory in Gaspe, Quebec, after one of the 107-meter long turbine blades it made shattered at the Vineyard Wind project off the coast of Massachusetts in July. Fragments of fiberglass cluttered the beaches and required the job to temporarily close down. GE Vernova owns the Gaspe plant through its LM Wind Power subsidiary. One source knowledgeable about the matter...

EDP Renovaveis, the world's fourthlargest wind energy producer, believes U.S. renewable energy legislation introduced under President Joe Biden will not face considerable cuts when Donald Trump is successful him in January, its CEO stated on Wednesday. The renewable energy sector experienced strong development throughout Trump's first presidency and lots of major tidy energy investments that have actually gained from Biden's Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). lie in Republican states, Miguel Stilwell d'Andrade stated. in a call with experts on Wednesday. Our company believe that the benefits these states have actually gotten under. the individual retirement account make it not likely the...

Mining financial investment conferences have a fantastic track record of pointing to the next development location for commodities, as they unite early phase investors and junior miners looking for to get jobs off the ground. A decade ago lithium was the popular metal, 5 years earlier it was the turn of gold and more just recently copper has been the flavour of the month at these occasions throughout Asia. However at the 121 Mining and Energy Financial investment conference this week in Singapore there was no clear option, and no real consensus on where the very best chances lie. If...

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen stated on Thursday that U.S. public financial investments that attract personal capital are crucial to promote sustainable and inclusive growth over the long term, but warned that China's design of huge state industrial aids were undesirable to the world. Yellen said in prepared remarks to the Economic Club of New York that the standard Republican design of supply-side. economics relies too heavily on tax cuts to stimulate investment and. has failed to benefit sufficient workers. Yellen's speech to top organization executives and Wall Street. leaders marked a rebuttal of sorts to a discussion that. Republican...

Battery storage business Eku Energy aims to expand its international energy storage capacity to 9 gigawatthours by 2028 from about 1.3 GWh now, to assist speed up the energy shift and increase using renewables, the head of its Japanese unit said. Eku Energy, jointly owned by Macquarie Group's. green mutual fund and Canadian pension fund British Columbia. Investment Management, in April announced its very first task in. Japan to build a 30 megawatts/120 MWh battery energy storage. system in Miyazaki prefecture on the southern island of Kyushu. As resource-poor Japan broadens renewable resource to satisfy. decarbonisation objectives and enhance energy...

Alphabetowned Google will invest a more 1 billion euros ($ 1.1 billion). into the expansion of its data centre campus in Finland to drive. its artificial intelligence (AI) company growth in Europe, it. stated in a declaration on Monday. In recent years, numerous data centres have been found in the. Nordic nations because of the region's cooler environment, tax. breaks and plentiful availability of renewable power. Finland's Nordic neighbours Sweden and Norway have recently. grown progressively vital of hosting them, with some industry. professionals arguing the Nordic nations need to use their renewable. power for items such as green steel...

A victory by Donald Trump in the Nov. 5 presidential election would threaten a predicted $ 1 trillion in lowcarbon energy investments and carbon emissions would be 1 billion tonnes more by 2050 than under present policies, according to a brand-new analysis by Wood Mackenzie released on Thursday. KEY QUOTE This election cycle will truly influence the pace of energy financial investment, both in the next 5 years and through 2050, said David Brown, director of Wood Mackenzie's Energy Transition Research study. Investments in low carbon supply require to be made in the near term to recognize longer-dated decarbonization targets....

Dominion Energy expects to service 15 more information centers through completion of 2024 as the utility gets bigger power requests from computer warehouse developers, executives stated on Thursday. Rule's service territory consists of northern Virginia, that includes a cluster of counties that hold the world's. largest concentration of data centers. The method data centers are ramping up is much faster than they. have in the past and their demands are bigger than they've been. in the past, Dominion CEO Robert Blue said, adding that his business. has actually linked 94 gigawatts of information center capacity in the past. five years....

China's MingYang Smart Energy , Italian energy firm Renexia and Italy's industry ministry have actually signed a contract to set up a wind turbine making plant, the ministry said on Thursday. The deal imagines a financial investment of around 500 million euros ($ 546 million), the ministry said in a declaration, without clarifying how the cost would be shared. The memorandum of understanding follows a statement last week that an Italian company specialising in photovoltaic plants and a Chinese maker of photovoltaic panel elements had actually formed an alliance. Regardless of the difficulty of shipping big turbines, MingYang and most...

China's thermal power generation fell on the year for a second straight month in June as hydropower generation rose, data from the National Bureau of Data showed on Monday. Thermal electrical energy, generated mostly by coal-fired capability, fell 7.4% in June after declining by 4.3% in May. However, thermal output still increased 1.7% over the first 6 months as a whole. Hydropower volumes rose 44.5% in June and 21.4% over the first six months. The pattern could put China on track for a year-on-year decrease in coal use for 2024 as a whole, if hydropower output remains strong, said David...

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen stated on Thursday that U.S. public financial investments that attract private capital are crucial to promote sustainable and inclusive growth over the long term, but alerted that China's model of huge state industrial subsidies were inappropriate to the world. Yellen said in ready remarks to the Economic Club of New York that the conventional Republican design of supply-side. economics relies too heavily on tax cuts to spur financial investment and. has failed to benefit enough employees. Yellen's speech to top business executives and Wall Street. leaders marked a rebuttal of sorts to a presentation that....

Sumitomo Corp aims to install 500 megawatts (MW) or more of battery storage in Japan by March 2031, from 9 MW now, to assist reduce renewable energy fluctuations and enhance the efficiency of the energy system, a. company official stated. As resource-poor Japan broadens renewable resource to meet. decarbonisation objectives and improve energy security, battery usage. is expected to increase to ravel the periodic supply of. solar and wind energy. Sumitomo's battery storage initiative becomes part of the. Japanese trading house's more comprehensive efforts to strengthen its energy. change company. We aim to add to the stabilisation and. decarbonisation of...

JFE Holdings prepares to ramp up abroad investments as part of a longterm drive to double profits, Japan's No. 2 steelmaker stated on Tuesday, as it posted a 21.4% increase in annual net profit but likewise flagged a. smaller boost for this year. JFE President Yoshihisa Kitano, who took the helm on April. 1, said he would speed up the business's tactical shift from. quantity to quality, however did not offer a timeframe for doubling. its company earnings, other than stating it would take more than. 3-5 years. Enhancing abroad profits is necessary to our objective of. doubling revenues, he...

China's electrical energy usage increased by 209 billion kilowatthours, or 10%, in the first three months of 2024 compared with the same period in 2023, when the country was emerging from the exit wave of the coronavirus. Consumption development was focused in production (+112. billion kWh) as factories returned to normal operations after. widespread disturbances caused by lockdowns in 2022 and 2023. However there was also substantial development from services companies. ( +53 billion kWh), domestic users (+41 billion kWh) and. main markets such as farming and mining (+3 billion. kWh), according to the National Energy Administration. Chartbook: China electrical...

Denmark's Orsted , the world's most significant offshore wind farm designer, stated on Wednesday a task in Taiwan that will supply power for chipmaker TSMC is progressing well and is on track for completion next year. Orsted stated in March of in 2015 it had actually made a final investment decision to proceed with its planned 920 megawatt ( MW) Greater Changhua 2b and 4 overseas wind farms, which will primarily supply Taiwan Semiconductor Production Co (TSMC). , the world's biggest contract chipmaker. Orsted has not stated how much it is buying the task. We are advancing very well on...

Coal miner and power generator LEAG, owned by Czech energy company EPH, plans to construct gasfired power stations at four places in Germany as part of a federal government strategy to add more such plants, its CEO informed in an interview. We will certainly be associated with this, stated Thorsten Kramer. We have 4 power plant sites. We are getting all of them, he stated, describing Berlin's plans to tender capability in an auction system that is yet to be defined. Preparation for the websites, which would have a combined capacity of a minimum of 3 gigawatts (GW), has been...

The following are the top stories on business pages of British papers. has not confirmed these stories and does not attest their accuracy. The Times - China has targeted a group of senior politicians at Westminster as part of a new age of state-backed disturbance targeted at weakening British democracy. The Guardian - Sadiq Khan has actually vowed not to extend the scope of London's. ultra-low emission zone scheme if he goes back to the role after. May's election. The Telegraph - Wind farm owners are being investigated by the energy. watchdog for supposed market manipulation after they were implicated....

Ingka, which owns the majority of IKEA stores worldwide, is seeking its first sustainable investment opportunities in South Korea and Japan, with offshore wind the most appealing alternative, the head of its financial investment arm said. Ingka Investments has actually quickly become a significant owner of renewable energy possessions in Europe as a method to decarbonise its own company as well as its broader supply chain, Peter van der Poel, its managing director, told . We are still actively searching in Europe however we're likewise still looking, for example, in South Korea and in Japan, where we also have existence,...

The Japanese government has selected a consortium making up Japan Renewable resource, Iberdrola Renewables and Tohoku Electric Power as the wind power operator for an overseas block tendered in a second round of auctions, it said on Friday. The 375-megawatt (MW) wind farm is located off the coast of Happo-Noshiro in Akita prefecture in northern Japan and is part of Japan's efforts to grow its overseas wind market to 10 gigawatt (GW) by 2030, and up to 45 GW by 2040. Danish wind turbine maker Vestas will supply turbines for the Happo-Noshiro task that should be introduced in June 2029,...

Australia's large iron ore mining sector is facing stark options as its biggest consumer China has likely hit a peak in its steel production and global pressures install to decarbonise one the world's most contaminating markets. The scale of these difficulties are enormous, but they are far from insurmountable, and there are a selection of choices that Australia's iron ore miners can pursue. The trick is selecting a path that increases earnings, or at least reduces expenses, while ensuring that the market continues to flourish. Australia is the world's biggest exporter of iron ore, the crucial basic material utilized to...