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Giga-scale green hydrogen: 'Developers are being unrealistic about levelised costs' 'We will transform America': Biden closes deal on massive infrastructure package Stiesdal's low-cost TetraSpar floating wind demonstrator installed off Norway RWE raises earnings forecast on strong energy trading figures Siemens Gamesa CEO points to 'strong order backlog' amid quarterly loss US begins permitting process of the up-to-1GW first phase of Kitty Hawk offshore wind farm US clean power installations hit record high in 2020, but grid-access bottleneck grew: ACPA 'Responding to society's needs': Repsol raises renewables and green hydrogen ambitions for 2025 Why hydrogen-fired power plants 'will play a major role in the energy transition' World’s first international liquid-hydrogen shipment delayed again by up to eight months

'We will transform America': Biden closes deal on massive infrastructure package

OPINION

Giga-scale green hydrogen: 'Developers are being unrealistic about levelised costs'

BIGGER PICTURE

Stiesdal's low-cost TetraSpar floating wind demonstrator installed off Norway

UPDATED

Siemens Gamesa CEO points to 'strong order backlog' amid quarterly loss

ANALYSIS

Why hydrogen-fired power plants 'will play a major role in the energy transition'

RWE raises earnings forecast on strong energy trading figures

ACPA: US clean power installations hit record high in 2020, but grid-access bottleneck grew

Corporate Renewables

TotalEnergies to supply renewable power to Amazon as part of strategic tie-up

California floating wind power edges toward launch pad with deepwater call

US begins permitting process of the up-to-1GW first phase of Kitty Hawk offshore wind farm

'Responding to society's needs': Repsol raises renewables and green hydrogen goals for 2025

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Energy Transition

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OPINION

Giga-scale green hydrogen: 'Developers are being unrealistic about levelised costs'

Biden's ambitious 2030 US offshore wind goal 'unattainable due to bottlenecks': IHS Markit

'Major milestone': First power flows from world's mightiest tidal turbine

Putin special envoy: 'Russia can take over the European clean hydrogen market'

Shell builds up steam in US residential clean-power market with Inspire take-over

Avangrid seals deal with Primergy for giant Nevada solar projects to 'fill gap' left by coal

EXCLUSIVE

New CO2 battery will make wind and solar dispatchable 'at an unprecedented low price'

Transitioning utility Repsol flicks switch on its biggest-ever solar project in Spain

Green light given for UK's first hydrogen blend in public natural-gas network

Renewables jobs 'to grow fivefold globally by 2050' as fossil-fuel industry shrinks: study

Eni boosts Spanish wind and solar profile with 'strategic' gigascale buy-up

Biggest-ever floating solar plant with storage unveiled for Indonesian island reservoir

AGENDA

The $173trn energy transition spend, Japan's offshore cross-drafts, and hydrogen on a high

OPINION

'America's leading investors and developers understand the urgency of the moment'

US renewable energy lobby groups merge to spur on 'powerful new chapter' for industry

World's cheapest energy storage will be an iron-air battery, says Jeff Bezos-backed start-up

OPINION

EU’s new green H2 targets are great, but where are the support mechanisms needed to hit them?

World's first offshore green hydrogen project on an oil platform gets go-ahead

Japan faces challenges to hit higher clean power targets, warn analysts

Global capital spend of $173trn to 2050 in 'inherently uncertain' transition to net zero: BNEF

Covid collateral damage: world's first international liquid-H2 shipment suffers further delays

Weak winds deflate German developer EnBW's first-half renewable energy result

OPINION

Opposites attract? Heady days for energy transition marriage of green and black

OPINION

'America's leading investors understand the urgency of the moment'

Bottlenecks could make Biden's big 2030 US offshore wind goal 'unattainable'

World's first clean-H2 investment fund 'could face real challenge' after IPO stumble

AGENDA

The $173trn energy transition spend, Japan's offshore cross-drafts, and hydrogen on a high

Putin special envoy: 'Russia can take over the European clean hydrogen market'

Innovation

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'Major milestone': First power flows from world's mightiest tidal turbine

Shell builds up steam in US residential clean-power market with Inspire take-over

Avangrid seals deal with Primergy for giant Nevada solar projects to 'fill gap' left by coal

EXCLUSIVE

New CO2 battery will make wind and solar dispatchable 'at an unprecedented low price'

Trio of floating wind power pilots tack forward in 'vital step' for Celtic Sea play

Wind and floating solar tapped for first Adriatic green hydrogen hub on oil & gas platforms

Transitioning utility Repsol flicks switch on its biggest-ever solar project in Spain

Green light given for UK's first hydrogen blend in public natural-gas network

EXCLUSIVE

Sardinia will become a net-zero island as soon as 2030 and this is how: Enel boss

World's cheapest energy storage will be an iron-air battery, says Jeff Bezos-backed start-up

World's first offshore green hydrogen project on an oil platform gets go-ahead

RWE heads for the Cloud with global deal to streamline offshore wind operations

Vestas plans Japan offshore wind factory after government subsidy boost

Germany utility giant Uniper joins major Oman green hydrogen plan

Biggest-ever floating solar plant with storage unveiled for Indonesian island reservoir

Global capital spend of $173trn to 2050 in 'inherently uncertain' transition to net zero: BNEF

Every third power plant installed globally in 2020 was PV: SolarPower Europe

'Abundant resources': ten offshore wind projects could bring 25GW onto grid in Australia

Japan gets first offshore wind foundation plant to boost local content ambitions

Floating wind 'game changer' signs big names from Highview and Iberdrola plus ex-EU climate chief

Crew lost at sea still missing after wind installer capsizes off China

'Continued progress' in offshore wind eases GE back into growth in second quarter

'Major milestone': First power flows from world's mightiest tidal turbine

Shell builds up steam in US residential clean-power market with Inspire take-over

Prysmian to supply cabling to Orsted German offshore wind extensions

EDPR renewables portfolio grows but profit falls on hit from Texas freeze

Power Players

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OPINION

'America's leading investors and developers understand the urgency of the moment'

US renewable energy lobby groups merge to spur on 'powerful new chapter' for industry

EXCLUSIVE

Enel CEO: 'Clean electricity will power 99% of Europe’s transport and heating by 2050 — and this is how it will work'

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

'This wind project can still hit 4GW': thirst for green power rekindles Markbygden ambition

EXCLUSIVE

Liebreich: ‘Oil sector is lobbying for inefficient hydrogen cars because it wants to delay electrification’

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

Power systems will struggle if all cars are fully electric, claims Hydrogen Council boss

GE names industrial vet Kjaersgaard for 'next level of global growth' in offshore wind

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

'I don’t want to pit green and blue hydrogen off against each other': Equinor's Eitrheim

Mainstream names new technology chief for 'end-to-end digitalisation' scale-up strategy

Asia's richest man unveils $10bn 'giga-plan' to turn India's Reliance into clean energy major

US bans imports from three Chinese solar suppliers over forced labour

OPINION

Turning between hope and despair as climate ultimatum looms larger

OPINION

'Conventional nuclear has had its day, but fusion could yet be a silver bullet'

OPINION

'Europe's green plans will suffer unless it acts now to boost corporate renewable energy'

OPINION

'A blade landfill ban is just the start of wind power's journey to circularity'

EXCLUSIVE

Fossils' energy dominance 'as high as a decade ago' despite wind and solar boom: REN21

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

'We absolutely see floating wind as complimentary to fixed in our core plays': Orsted Europe chief

'We are developing a portfolio that can create value in a net zero future': Equinor

OPINION

'To reach net zero, the mechanics of the renewable energy industry must evolve – and quickly'

Green hydrogen leads off US energy earthshots in 'all hands on deck' technology call

Avangrid seals deal for giant Nevada solar projects to 'fill gap' left by coal

Renewables jobs 'to grow fivefold globally by 2050' as fossil-fuel industry shrinks: study

EXCLUSIVE

New CO2 battery will make wind and solar dispatchable 'at unprecedented low price'

Acciona and SSE join forces to turn 'common vision' for Polish offshore wind into reality

Four missing after Chinese offshore wind installer capsizes in monopile collision

Trio of floating wind power pilots tack forward in 'vital step' for Celtic Sea play

TotalEnergies to sell Belgian offshore wind power to Air Liquide in 'dynamic' market

Cheapest energy storage will be iron-air battery, says Bezos-backed start-up

UPDATED

German onshore wind slump ends but sector warns of 'rocky road ahead'

UPDATED

Oil major Eni boosts European renewables profile with gigascale buy-up

Green light given for UK's first hydrogen blend in public natural-gas network

UK's Flotation Energy teams with Spaniard Cobra for gigascale wind push off Ireland

Canary Islands floating wind updraft as Ocean Winds joins in with local player

Lift clean-energy auction cap to 15GW to boost 'speed and scale' of UK build-out

RWE heads for the Cloud with global deal to streamline offshore wind operations

Biggest-ever floating solar plant with storage unveiled for Indonesian island

RWE, Shell and Equinor set seal on lead-off project for AquaVentus H2 plan

Transitioning utility Repsol flicks switch on its biggest-ever solar project in Spain

Russia eyes large-scale export of blue hydrogen with national petro-players

Van Oord lands foundation and cable deal for big Iberdrola Baltic Sea wind farm

EXCLUSIVE

Italian job: Sardinia will become a net-zero island as soon as 2030 – here's how

US gives Vineyard room to grow revenue from 'significant footprint' of Atlantic wind projects

US renewable energy lobby groups merge to spur on 'powerful new chapter' for industry

BIGGER PICTURE

'The challenge and the beauty': milestone in construction of UK Triton Knoll marked

First offshore green hydrogen project on an oil platform gets go-ahead

Vestas plans Japan offshore wind factory after government subsidy boost

OPINION

'New EU green H2 targets are a game-changer – but need support mechanism'

Nordex and TPI in Mexican hat dance for blade fabrication as OEM rejigs globally

Global capital spend of $173trn to 2050 in 'inherently uncertain' net zero shift: BNEF

'Renewables still at a premium': Japan's higher clean power targets face hurdles

Siemens Gamesa sets deadlines for zero-waste wind turbines and recyclable blades

Renewables giant Iberdrola may spin-off offshore wind business: CEO Galán

EDPR to sell power to Facebook in US and divest Portuguese portfolio

'Abundant resources': offshore wind could bring 25GW onto Australian grid: study

Floating wind 'game changer' launches with clean energy high-flyers onboard

'Sky high' ScotWind entries as seabed landlord aims to give winners January joy

Japan gets first offshore wind foundation plant to aid local content ambitions

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Green H2 to star at Tokyo Olympics, but not at scale first envisaged

Iberdrola swoops into Vietnam as global green power giant grows Asia footprint

'Green H2 from excess wind and solar vital to balance future grid at lowest cost': study

EDPR enters 'key' UK onshore wind and solar market through major pipeline buy-up

Massachusetts eyes Biden-funds spree to put ports on offshore wind pole