Engie Brasil Energia has agreed to buy the 882MW Serra do Assuruá wind energy project from PEC Energia SA for BRL 265 million ($50 million). Located in the north-eastern state of Bahia, the project includes 24 parcels of land, for which Engie has a lease agreement,...

Industry leaders tell conference panel how tenders can be shaped to help meet renewable and energy security targets Auctions should incentivise a faster expansion of wind energy and developers’ plans should be weighed on qualitative criteria as well as the price of...

Vestas will source blades for its V150-4.2MW turbines in Brazil from General Electric subsidiary LM Wind Power. The Danish companies have signed a multi-year agreement for blade manufacturer LM Wind Power to supply Vestas with blades from its factory in Ipojuca,...

Swedish floating wind platform designer SeaTwirl has secured permission to install a 1MW prototype of its vertical-axis turbine at a test site in Norway. Together with the Marine Energy Test Centre (Met Centre), it will seek to demonstrate the concept at a site off...

Ørsted and Invenergy have commissioned two US wind farms with a combined capacity of nearly 1.3GW. Invenergy has commissioned the 998MW Traverse Wind Energy Center in Oklahoma for utility American Electric Power. Featuring 356 GE 2MW platform turbines, it is the...

More than 9GW of wind, solar, biomass and hydro assets are at risk from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to the country’s renewable energy industry. About half of the country’s renewable energy capacity, representing $5.6 billion of investment, is in areas...

The installation of all 83 turbines has been completed at the 322MW Zeewolde repowering project in Flevoland. The development — a replacement of around 220 older turbines — is the largest Dutch onshore wind project. It comprises four different types of Vestas...

Acciona Energía has announced plans to begin construction of the MacIntyre wind farm in the second quarter of this year, after it received environmental approval from the Queensland authorities. With nearly 1GW of capacity, the wind farm is set to become Australia’s...

Exclusive interview with the rapporteur for the European Parliament’s offshore wind report on achieving 300GW by 2050 “Groundbreaking” changes in market design and permitting, and “staggering” amounts of money will be needed to facilitate the EU’s offshore wind...

Sweden has presented plans to eventually build nearly enough offshore wind capacity to meet the country’s current electricity consumption. However, the national wind energy association has called for the target to be higher. The current plans also fail to take into...