Iberdrola
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Offshore Wind
BP Buying $1.1 Billion Stake in U.S. Offshore Wind
The move by major oil and gas exploration companies into renewable energy has taken another significant step, as BP announced a $1.1 billion deal to buy the U.S. offshore wind power assets of Norway’s Equinor. BP in announcing the deal on Sept. 10 said it is taking a 50% stake in Equinor’s Empire Wind project […]
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News
Offshore Wind Finding Direction in U.S.
Europe has a big head start globally when it comes to generating power from offshore wind installations. The U.S. has lagged due to a variety of factors, including the need to work through regulatory issues
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News
POWER Digest [January 2020]
Engie Will Close 1 GW of Coal Generation; Adding Solar, Wind. French energy group Engie in mid-December said it will close 1 GW of coal-fired power generation assets in Peru and Chile over the next five years
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- Equinor
- European Investment Bank
- biomass
- Saipem
- Power Ledger
- KEPCO
- Fred Olsen Windcarrier
- EDF Renewables
- ESB
- Engie
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- GE Renewable Energy
- Deme Offshore
- Mitsubishi Corp. Power Ltd.
- Iberdrola
- Mitsubish Corp.
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Infographics
THE BIG PICTURE: World’s Biggest Power Companies
In 2017, the 10 largest power companies, ranked by their installed generation capacity, owned 18% of total global installed capacity, while the next-largest 15 owned around 10%—meaning that the top 25 companies own nearly 30% of global installed power generation capacity, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). Chinese companies account for more than one-eighth of global installed […]
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- EDF
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- Mexico
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- Comision Federal de Electricidad
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- NPTC
- Southern Co.
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- Egyptian Electricity
- France
- Engie
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Press Releases
Siemens Gamesa secures Brazil’s largest-ever contract: 136 turbines for Iberdrola
The company will deliver a total of 471 MW to a wind complex comprising 15 developments Siemens Gamesa is the number-two turbine OEM in Brazil with a market share of 24% Siemens Gamesa has reinforced its position in Brazil having signed its largest ever contract* in this market. The company will supply a total of […]
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Press Releases
MHPS Advanced-Class Gas Turbine Arrives in Mexico Port of Altamira
ALTAMIRA, MEXICO (May 29, 2018) — Iberdrola SA and Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems (MHPS) today joined Mexican officials as they welcomed another Advanced-Class Gas Turbine arrival in the bustling Mexican Port of Altimira. The turbine is headed to Iberdrola’s 850-MW power project in El Carmen in northeastern Mexico. In the past two years, Iberdrola has ordered a […]
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Renewables
Spain’s Market Regulator Rejects Attempt to Save Coal Plants
Spanish market and competition regulator CNMC (Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia) in a report published on January 24 said a draft government decree to block power plant closures if they
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Legal & Regulatory
Spanish Government Takes Steps to Support Coal-fired Generation
Iberdrola’s global strategy to close its remaining coal-fired power plants has met with government opposition in its home country of Spain. Days after Iberdrola, the country’s largest utility, said it
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Gas
POWER Digest
UK Gives First Consent for Hinkley Point C EPRs. The UK’s Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) on March 27 gave its approval to allow a consortium to begin placing structural concrete for a series of