Tag: Wind

MEGAWATT MOSAIC SECURES HELEN PASSFIELD, GETS READY TO DEPLOY AND RECEIVES CONSTRUCTION FINANCE OFFER

Megawatt Mosaic (MM) has now signed an Employment Contract with Helen Passfield (BA CIMA) for the role of Managing Director. Cedric Berard moves to Chairman, Isabel Prat (LLM Commerical Law, Master in Legal Practice) joins as Director. Here, Helen talks about her experience in renewables dating back to 2010, with some of the most prestigious names in the sector, including Lightsource, Impax, Octopus, Blue Tree and Allianz, and how she sees MM developing in the first three years:  Helen Passfield Interview MM is now due to deploy into the first 10 projects, in partnership with other investors and operators, including our main partner, [...]

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OFFSHORE WIND AND BESS TAKE CENTRE STAGE IN NET ZERO DRIVE

The link below takes you to all the energy nodes across europe along with grid lines: See all the Energy Nodes Across Europe Click in ” Legend ” at 9 O’clock and you can see the voltage of the lines and the mosaic of power generation plants in operation and planned. Click on the white spots out at sea and these are the offshore wind farms. White spots on land are power generators or substations. Checked Lines are gridlines in development. What does this all tell us? There is a huge huge volume of offshore wind being introduced. WEGS are no longer 1 MW from [...]

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Wind power sets new UK record

More than half of the country's electricity came from this source with 21.6GW generated National Grid ESO has confirmed that wind provided more than half of the UK's power on 10th January 2023, setting a new record, according to RenewableUK.  Wind generated 21.6GW of electricity in the half-hour period between 6-6.30pm, providing 50.4% of the UK’s power. This beats the previous record of 20.9GW set on 30 December, which was the third wind energy record set last year. RenewableUK has been tracking the massive amount of electricity being produced by low carbon sources (renewables and nuclear) throughout the winter and tweeting updates every fortnight. Its latest wind power [...]

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‘New dynamic in expansion’. Germany adds nearly 10GW of wind and solar in 2022

Europe’s largest economy installs 7.2GW of new solar and 2GW of onshore wind – but additions still too low to reach 2030 targets Germany added close to 10GW in new net onshore wind and solar capacity last year, which brought a “new dynamic in the expansion of renewable energies” amid a flurry of legislative changes to speed up deployment, the country’s economics and climate ministry said. Net solar PV additions are expected to have risen by 26% to 7.2GW in 2022, according to preliminary figures, the ministry said in an overview paper, pushing cumulative solar capacity in Europe’s largest economy beyond 65GW. For [...]

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