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Content Iss. 2020-01-23

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 EDITORIAL
German Coal Exit -?-
Detail_kohleabbau_5The topic dominated public debate for months: What should the coal phase-out look like in Germany? How many power plants can be shut down and how quickly? The Coal Commission convened by the Federal Government spent months discussing the issue and finally laboriously agreed on a compromise resolution. But now there's nothing left of it.

Breaking of promises - that's what some of the members of the Coal Commission, including Prof. Dr. Barbara Praetorius, former chairwoman of the Commission, are accusing Germany's government of. The agreement presented last week by the Federal Government and the coal-producing federal states was met with little approval from most experts anyway, but now the tone of the discussion is becoming more heated.

Eight people who, as ...

 HIGHLIGHTS
Waiting for America's Next Revolution
List_rystad_energy_20200123According to research by Rystad Energy, the installed offshore wind capacity in U.S. waters will likely exceed those in US offshore oil and gas within the next five years

Such a trajectory means capital expenditure ...

Australia Awaits Record-Breaking Year
List_australia_globeRystad Energy expects the Australian energy market to experience another record-breaing year with new projects totaling 3.6 GW of capacity

This comprises 1.96 GWac in utility PV projects and 1.57 GWac in wind ...

Academic Partnership to Protect North Atlantic Right Whales
List_wal_3Ørsted and a couple of U.S. universities have teamed up to to better understand the habitat as well as the presence, distribution and seasonality of the endangered North Atlantic right whale ...
Battery Scale-Up Required to Support Paris Agreement
List_batterie_3“Batteries are key to decarbonising road transportation and supporting the transition to a renewable power system," says GlobalData.

GlobalData’s power technology writer Scarlett Evans says: “Finding and ...

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France Wants to Use Less Nuclear Energy
Detail_parisFrance is still one of the world leaders in the use of nuclear energy, but this is about to change, according to government plans.

The French government has presented its climate protection plans for the coming years. According to these plans, the country, which currently still obtains a good 72 percent of its electricity from nuclear power, is to gradually switch to renewable energies in the next few years. By 2035, the ...

Ørsted Rules the (Energy) World
Detail_orsted_20200122Corporate Knights has published its 2020 index of the Global 100 most sustainable corporations in the world where Danish energy company Ørsted ranks #1. It's the first time ever, an energy company tops the index.

Global offshore wind leader Ørsted outperformed more than 7,300 global companies with billion-dollar revenues to rank #1 in Corporate Knights' 2020 index of the Global 100 most sustainable corporations in the world. The company has worked hard in the past decade to ...

 MEMBER NEWS
Deutsche Windtechnik Acquires GFW
List_deutsche_windtechnik_20200123GFW's focus is on Fuhrländer, Senvion and Nordex

GFW will retain its name for the time being and will be structurally integrated as a unit under Deutsche Windtechnik X-Service. Holger Hämel and Severin Mielimonka, ...

Statkraft Involved in UK’s Balancing Mechanism
List_statkraft_20200122Statkraft entered the UK Balancing Mechanism (BM) in November last year with a 20 MW highly flexible gas generation asset in South West England.

Statkraft entered the UK Balancing Mechanism (BM) in November last year with a 20 ...

GE to Construct the Neart na Gaoithe Offshore Wind Farm Substations
List_ge_20190326_2GE is responsible for the turnkey delivery of all infrastructure within the perimeter 12 miles off the Fife coast in Scotland

GE Renewable Energy’s Grid Solutions business (NYSE: ...

Statkraft and CMC Team Up for Corporate PPA in Poland
List_statkraft_20181101CMC Poland is one of the largest electricity consumers in Poland.

The agreement fixes the price for 20 percent of CMC Poland’s power consumption, starting in 2021. CMC Poland, a wholly owned subsidiary of the ...

Deutsche Windtechnik Provides Maintenance for German Wind Farm
List_deutsche_windtechnik_2020116The service contract covers full maintenance for the six Vestas wind turbines, including large components.

The reasons for switching service providers, from the manufacturer to the ...

 EVENTS
2020-01-23 Tokyo: 8th Asia Offshore Wind Day
2020-01-29 Toronto: CanWEA Operations and Maintenance Summit 2020
2020-01-29 Dublin: National Manufacturing & Supply Chain Conference & Exhibition
2020-01-29 Dublin: National Sustainability Summit
2020-02-11 Aberdeen: Subsea Expo 2019
2020-02-11 Essen: E-world 2020
2020-02-12 Berlin: Betriebsführung und Instandhaltung von Windparks
2020-02-12 Bangkok: Future Energy Asia 2020
2020-03-10 HANOI: Vietnam Wind Expo 2020
2020-05-06 Hamburg: smart energy Symposium 2020
2020-05-07 Hamburg: 18. Windmesse Symposium 2020
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 INDUSTRY NEWS
SeaTwirl Gets European Patent
EDP Joins Maritime Robot Testing Center
Vestas Announces Zero-Waste Wind Turbines by 2040
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