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Global electricity production starts to rise again
19 December, 2023
According to the International Energy Agency’s ‘Monthly Electricity Statistics’ report global electricity production is rising again after some months of piecemeal reductions.

Construction of Germany’s north-south power link starts
19 December, 2023
Online news agency Clean Energy Wire reports that following several years of delays, construction of a key component of Germany’s grid infrastructure has started in the southern state of Bavaria. The SuedOstLink connection built by grid operator TenneT will link the economic powerhouse with northern and eastern Germany. With its capacity of 2 GW, it is intended primarily for the transport of renewable electricity, mainly offshore wind.

“Significant advance” in ocean modelling
19 December, 2023
A Dutch offshore wind report has categorised the Unified-WRF model for offshore and weather studies a “significant advancement in meteorological and oceanographic modelling”. The Dutch government enterprise agency, RVO, has designated the IJmuiden Ver Wind Zone (IJVWFZ) as an area for offshore wind development. The project site is located 62 km from the west coast of the Netherlands. A consortium led by DHI, including OWC, ArcVera Renewables, ProPlanEn, and others, conducted an in-depth study to assess the metocean conditions and wind resources at the IJVWFZ. This initiative by the Dutch government aimed to provide project stakeholders with valuable information to inform the future development of offshore wind in the zone.

Topsoe awarded €94 m from EU fund
19 December, 2023
The EU’s Innovation Fund has awarded Topsoe €94 million for the construction in Herning, Denmark, of the company’s first electrolyser manufacturing facility. It is the largest investment in Topsoe’s history. The factory is expected to be operational by 2024 and will produce Solid Oxide Electrolyser Cells. Initial factory capacity is to be 500 MW with the option to scale further.

Voith to equip major hydro plant in Angola
19 December, 2023
Voith is set to supply equipment for the large-scale hydropower plant Caculo Cabaça in Angola, West Africa. The order comprises all electrical and mechanical equipment, including the installation of four Francis turbines with an output of 530 MW each, an additional Francis turbine with an output of 52 MW, generators, control and auxiliary systems and a customised training concept.

Wood to support one of the world’s largest offshore connection projects
19 December, 2023
Wood, the prominent consulting and engineering company, has been awarded a contract by Dragados Offshore to deliver engineering design and provide regulatory support for the development of three 2 GW convertor stations to transfer offshore wind power to Germany's power grid. These projects will be executed by Spanish company Dragados Offshore, in partnership with Siemens Energy.

US solar and wind ‘to overtake coal-fired generation in 2024’ – EIA
19 December, 2023
The US Energy Information Administration expects, for the first year on record, that combined electricity generation from wind and solar will overtake generation from coal in 2024. It anticipates that solar generation in 2024 will increase by 39% from 2023, driven by continuing increases in solar capacity.

PPA signed for South Africa's largest hybrid renewable project
19 December, 2023
ACWA Power, the lead shareholder and developer of the ACWA Power Project DAO, a 150 MW dispatchable renewable hybrid plant, has signed the project’s Power Purchase Agreement with the ministry of Mineral Resources and Energy, and Eskom. Project DAO was declared as one of the preferred bidders in South Africa’s Risk Mitigation IPP Procurement Programme in 2021.

Delegates reach ‘historic’ COP28 deal to transition away from fossil fuels
13 December, 2023
After a night of intense wrangling, and a day after the UN’s climate summit COP28 should have closed, delegates reached a final agreement to transition away from fossil fuels in an attempt to reach global net zero emissions by 2050. Announced as ‘historic' by conference president Sultan al-Jaber and praised by the US and EU, the deal was nonetheless criticised by 39 small island nations, those most at immediate risk of climate change effects, as having been forced through without their support.

Oman announces plans for green hydrogen corridor
12 December, 2023
The Sultanate of Oman's Ministry of Energy and Minerals, and Hydrogen Oman, (‘Hydrom’) have signed a Joint Study Agreement with Port of Amsterdam, Zenith Energy Terminals and GasLog, to collaborate on the development of a liquid hydrogen route to market for green hydrogen produced in the Sultanate of Oman. The Agreement shows the clear ambition of the partners to make the world's first commercial scale liquid hydrogen corridor a reality.

Chaos in Dubai as COP28 overruns
12 December, 2023
At the time of writing the debate was still going on at COP28, the UN World Climate Summit in Dubai, over the issue of scheduling a complete ban on the burning of fossil fuels.

A reliable power supply for SE Asia’s largest floating solar plant
12 December, 2023
The Cirata project is Southeast Asia’s largest floating solar project, a recently inaugurated 250-hectare power plant in the Cirata Reservoir in West Java, Indonesia, which will generate 192 MW peak of clean energy, enough to displace more than 200 000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions annually.

UK plans for offshore wind leasing Round 5
12 December, 2023
The UK’s Crown Estate, which controls the disposition of land under Britain’s coastal waters, on 7 December unveiled further details for Round 5 of its offshore wind leasing competition, offering the opportunity for three commercial-scale floating wind projects to be developed in the Celtic Sea off the coast of South Wales and South West England. The projects have the potential to deliver a combined capacity of up to 4.5 GW and are expected to mark the first phase of commercial development in the region.

ENEC signs MoU with MoltexFLEX
12 December, 2023
Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with British advanced nuclear technology developer MoltexFLEX in a move that marks a significant step towards bringing the FLEX reactor to market.

EC approves compensation for early phase-out of coal
12 December, 2023
Having approved in February a law that effectively bans the sale of new petrol and diesel cars in the European Union from 2035, aiming to speed up the switch to electric vehicles, the EU is taking on the closure of coal fired power plants.

ABB and Gravitricity to collaborate on gravity fed energy storage systems
12 December, 2023
ABB has signed an agreement with UK-based gravity energy storage firm Gravitricity to explore how hoist expertise and technologies can accelerate the development and implementation of gravity energy storage systems in former mines.

At COP28, IEA emphasises the urgent action needed
12 December, 2023
The IEA’s delegation in Dubai has been making clear what needs to be done to shift the world onto a 1.5 °C pathway. While the rapid deployment of clean energy technologies in recent years has made a major difference to the climate outlook, the world is not on track to meet the Paris Agreement goal of keeping global warming well below 2 °C – let alone below the threshold of 1.5 °C that science has shown is crucial to avoid the worst effects of climate change.

Significant declarations at COP28
05 December, 2023
A historic Ministerial Declaration signed on 2 December at the COP28 UN climate change conference in Dubai by more than twenty countries has set a clear goal of tripling global nuclear energy capacity by 2050.

MIDA and Masdar sign 10 GW renewables agreements
05 December, 2023
Masdar and the Malaysian Investment Development Authority have put together an implementation roadmap to advance 10 GW of clean energy projects in Malaysia, and signed five agreements unlocking up to 8 GW of renewable energy projects. The implementation roadmap, including ground mounted, rooftop and floating solar power plants, onshore wind farms and battery energy storage systems, follows the signing of a memorandum of understanding in October.

Global CO2 emissions will rise through to 2050 – EIA
05 December, 2023
The US Energy Information Administration projects that global energy-related CO2 emissions from consumption of coal, liquid fuels, and natural gas will increase over the next 30 years across most of the cases it analysed in its ‘International Energy Outlook 2023’ (IEO2023).