Thursday, 14 January 2021 To reach the Paris Agreement goals, the world will need vast amounts of green hydrogen and wind will provide a large portion of the power needed for its production. Siemens Gamesa and Siemens Energy announced today that they are joining forces combining their ongoing wind to hydrogen developments to address one of the major challenges of our decade decarbonizing the economy to solve the climate crisis. Courtesy of Siemens
The companies are contributing with their developments to an innovative solution that fully integrates an electrolyzer into an offshore wind turbine as a single synchronized system to directly produce green hydrogen. The companies intend to provide a full-scale offshore demonstration of the solution by 2025/2026. The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research announced today that the developments can be implemented as part of the ideas competition Hydrogen Republic of Germany .
Friday, 15 January 2021 New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo made his annual State of the State address recently and announced that in 2021, “New York will continue to build out its nation-leading green economic recovery and accelerate renewable energy development programs. The state will contract with Equinor Wind . for the development of two new offshore wind farms more than 20 miles off the shore of Long Island, in what is the largest procurement of renewable energy by a state in U.S. history. Courtesy of Equinor
Upon completion, the two offshore wind farms will yield a combined 2,490 megawatts of carbon-free energy, bring another $8.9 billion in investment, and create more than 5,200 jobs.
Courtesy of Engie
Total s biorefinery in La Mède incorporates a 40 MW electrolyser, powered by solar farms with a total capacity of more than 100 MW. The electrolyser will produce 5 tonnes of green hydrogen per day, meeting the needs of the production process of biofuels from the Total biorefinery in La Mède, and displacing 15,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions per year.
An innovative management solution for the production and storage of hydrogen will be implemented to manage the intermittency of solar electricity production and the need for continuous supply of the biorefinery.
The project thus integrates the implementation of 5 innovations that foreshadow the decarbonisation solutions of Industry, unprecedented in Europe:
Thursday, 14 January 2021
GE Renewable Energy has announced it has been selected by Leeward Renewable Energy LLC as its wind turbine technology partner in the repowering of Leeward’s 90 MW Aragonne Wind Project in Guadalupe County, New Mexico. Courtesy of Leeward Renewable Energy
When combined with the new greenfield 145 MW Aragonne Mesa Wind project, the total wind farm output will increase to 235 MW.
As a part of this effort, GE will be providing a total of 86 2.x-127 and 2.3-116 wind turbine generators (WTG) to Leeward. The Aragonne Wind repower will replace the project’s 90 existing units with new WTG technology, resulting in increased performance and reliability. The projects are anticipated to be completed in late 2021.
Thursday, 14 January 2021
Downing LLP has announced it has exchanged contracts to acquire a portfolio of five operational hydropower plants in South Norway on behalf of Downing Estate Planning Service. Courtesy of Downing LLP
The hydropower plants will now be owned by Bagnall Energy Limited, one of the two Inheritance Tax (IHT) companies within DEPS. The portfolio is being acquired from Fossberg Kraft AS/Fossberg Kraft Produksjon AS (Fossberg) who will become Downing’s partner both for development of new power plants, and operations and maintenance in Norway.
The portfolio comprises five hydropower plants near the city of Bergen. Three of the power plants are in Bjørnafjorden, a small town close to Bergen, thereby allowing for streamlined operations. The two other facilities are located in Odda and Sauda respectively. The average annual production of the portfolio is 21.8 GWh.