Belgium is receiving €438 million (£363.5m) to support the construction of an offshore wind farm. The European Investment Bank (EIB) is providing the money which will be used to develop the €1.1 billion (£0.91bn) Norther wind farm, off the Belgium coast. It will consist of 44 turbines which will have an estimated capacity of 352MW […]

Centrica has launched a market consultation on reducing the minimum capacity at its Rough storage facility for 2017/18. Its aim is to ensure the firm is not required to sell more storage services than Rough can physically deliver. The consultation follows an application the firm sent to Ofgem to reduce the minimum capacity and additional space of […]

Gas demand is above seasonal normal levels, according to npower’s daily market report. It is at 307mcm per day while the average for this time if the year is at 285mcm/d. However the system is a bit oversupplied with the linepack expected to close 4mcm in length due to the return of unplanned Norwegian outages […]

Volkswagen Group has announced it will be shareholder of a charging platform for electric vehicles (EV). The Hubject platform was founded in 2012 by BMW, Bosch, Daimler, EnBW, Innogy and Siemens. It provides e-mobility customers with access to almost 40,000 charge points on three continents. Volkswagen said joining it will allow the platform to push ahead with […]

Around 14GW of new solar capacity is expected to come online by the end of the year in the US. That’s according to a report by the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) which states the country’s sector has been growing at a 43% year-on-year rate. It adds a new megawatt of solar capacity came online […]

A new offshore wind tower manufacturing facility is to be built in the UK. CS Wind UK will construct the site which will be located next to its existing onshore wind tower facility in Campbeltown, Scotland. DONG Energy, which has invested “multi-million pound” to develop the project claims, it will be the first one of its kind in the […]

Shell has started oil production from a deepwater platform in Malaysia. The Malikai Tension-Leg Platform (TLP) is the firm’s second deepwater project in the country and is located 100 kilometres off the coast of Sabah. It is expected to have a peak production of 60,000 barrels per day. The project includes a cost-effective platform design and […]

The UK gas system has opened long this morning, according to npower’s daily market report. The linepack is forecast below 15mcm in length. Langeled flows at 74mcm and further support from storage injection nominations and Dutch interconnector imports are helping support the system. Demand is expected to be higher than seasonal normal levels as temperatures […]

RWE’s Innogy has announced it will launch a new business unit for electric vehicles (EVs). Its new eMobility business unit aims to become a leading provider for charging infrastructure for EVs in Europe and the US. Innogy claims it already operates one of the largest charging networks in Europe and its experts are developing innovative […]

Atlantis has announced it has secured funding for the next stage of its tidal energy project. The second phase of the MeyGen scheme is called “Project Stroma” and aims to demonstrate progress to a lower cost of energy for tidal stream. Stroma Tidal Power Limited (STPL), the subsidiary behind the next phase of the development at […]