ACCIONA Energía will build two new photovoltaic plants in Sicily after securing 151 MW of solar capacity in Italy’s latest FERX public renewable energy auction. The two solar projects, Panbianco (100.8 MWp) and Benante (50.2 MWp), will be located in the municipality of Lentini, in the Siracusa province. Construction is set to begin in 2026, … Read more
RWE has commissioned several solar farms along a motorway (A44n) in North Rhine-Westphalia following around eight months of construction. The total installed capacity amounts to 86.5 MWp (74.6 MWac). With about 141 000 solar modules, the plants will generate enough electricity to supply the equivalent of 27 700 German households with climate-friendly electricity. The project … Read more
With an investment of €350 million, Iberdrola has begun assembling the wind turbines for Portugal’s largest wind farm, which will produce enough energy for 128 000 households, equivalent to the Spanish city of Valladolid, and will avoid more than 230 000 tpy of carbon dioxide. This pioneering project reinforces the company’s leadership in electrification, contributes … Read more
Uniper has taken the decision to start construction of Berryhill solar farm just north of Dundee, Scotland. The project has been developed jointly with partner, Solar2. Uniper plans to start the construction process as its sole owner. The site is supposed to have approximately 152 000 solar panels, with the potential to generate 68.8 MWp … Read more
GE Vernova and Seatrium’s consortium have been awarded a contract by TenneT to deliver a major part of BalWin5, a new 2.2 GW offshore high-voltage direct current (HVDC) grid connection designed to transmit electricity from offshore wind farms in the German North Sea to the onshore transmission network in Germany. Once operational, BalWin5 is expected … Read more
EDF power solutions and Deep Wind Offshore have won the governmental bid for the seabed lease of the Utsira Nord floating offshore wind farm. The Utsira Nord project will be located in Southwestern Norway close to the Utsira island, 30 km away from the coastal city of Haugesund. With an installed capacity of 500 MW, … Read more
We’ve all had the experience of being presented with something so improbable on social media, and Googling it, in the belief that it can’t possibly be true. The story at left is true. But what does it mean about our State Department? We live in a world at war, on a planet that’s baking, where … Read more
It’s a mystery to most of us how it’s possible that the comments of our country’s top military minds, who worked for Trump and knew him intimately, can be ignored. Trump supporters think of themselves as patriots, but they seem not to care that our generals and admirals believe that our president is some combination … Read more
As we see from the polls, there are Trump supporters falling off the bandwagon every day. How and why does this happen? It’s hard to know. Some may have undergone an epiphany and realized to their horror that our president is a criminal sociopath and simply can’t believe how gullible they were to have bought … Read more
One of the most important “commandments” in Strunk and White’s “Elements of Style,” first published in 1920, is: “omit needless words.” Is anyone perfect at this? Probably not. Then again, we come across true prize-winners constantly, as exemplified at left.