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India is the world’s fourth country by cumulative wind energy capacity

Every journey begins with a single step. When Siemens Gamesa (then Gamesa) entered India, a community of business owners in Tamil Nadu, the country’s wind capital in the country’s south west, saw wind turbine generation as an attractive investment....

Vestas and European Energy seal 95 MW deal for two wind energy projects in Brazil

Vestas has obtained a 95 MW order from European Energy, in association with Eólica Tecnologia, for the Ouro Branco and Quatro Ventos wind power projects in the state of Pernambuco in Brazil. The order comprises 21 V150-4.2 MW wind turbines...

Morocco to build 270 MW wind farm near Essaouira

Morocco has given a go-ahead to a 270 MW wind farm in Jbel lahdid near Essaouira for a total cost of 2.8 billion dirhams ($314 million) as part of its plan to promote green energy. To that end a deal...

Siemens Gamesa seals its first wind farm in Ethiopia

The wind farm is set to be commissioned by Spring 2023, and will save more than 260,000tons of CO2 emissions per year. Siemens Gamesa has signed its first wind power project in Ethiopia with state-owned electricity company Ethiopian Electric Power...

Naturgy to deploy 5G drones for powerline monitoring

Spanish energy multinational Naturgy is partnering with Vodafone and startup FuVeX for beyond line of sight powerline monitoring with 5G drones. The initiative to get under way early in 2021 is claimed to have the first indefinite authorisation for drone...

US and Israeli energy departments fund eight innovation projects

Eight more energy innovation projects from Israel and the US are set to benefit from funding released through the Binational Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) Energy programme. The BIRD initiative will leverage $7.15 million in funding issued by the US...

Thermal storage a key part of the energy transition package – IRENA

Thermal energy storage comprised of heating or cooling as a storage medium is tested and deployed in a wide variety of applications. But key barriers remain limiting its uptake across energy systems, the organisation says. Approximately 234GWh of thermal energy...

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