ENGIE Africa completes Egypt’s largest wind farm 45 days early

The 262.5MW Ras Ghareb wind farm is now fully connected to the grid and is ready for commercial operation

Novasec secures rights to raise €80m for 312MW onshore wind farm in Spain

The Gecama project is expected to become the country’s largest onshore wind farm and will enter construction in 2020

State of Virginia signs renewable deal with Dominion Energy

The local utility will supply 345MW of solar power and 75MW of onshore wind energy to universities, state offices and government facilities

Wyoming wind farm to provide same power with 80% fewer turbines – how?

PacifiCorp is to repower the state’s first commercial wind farm with modernised, more efficient turbines

Onshore wind
Octopus Energy Investments completes £344m onshore wind refinancing

The firm hopes the move will unlock barriers to new renewable investments and enable competitive deals to be made more easily across European markets

Onshore wind
Ripple Energy crowdfund puts wind in the sails of onshore turbines

The start-up says the move will enable the public to invest in new wind farms across the UK

Wind farm
‘Nearly 300GW of new wind capacity will be built in next five years’

The Global Wind Energy Council expects the majority of this growth to be driven by increasing investment in offshore wind and emerging markets

GE Renewable’s 5.3MW prototype wind turbine enters operation

The giant structure has been successfully installed in Wieringermeer in the Netherlands

Foresight group buys portfolio of 52 mini-turbines

The investment organisation purchased Simple Power Limited and its assets for an undisclosed sum

Onshore construction underway to deliver power to 800k homes

More than 57km of underground electrical export cable will be installed for the Triton Knoll offshore wind farm