Largest PV project in the JUWI history
Juwi sells 267 MW PV portfolio to Foresight and Mirova, signs EPC and O&M contracts in Greece / Construction is scheduled to start in August 2024. Read more »
"It's a joy to come to work”
No matter what job you learned after school. If you are passionate about being part of the renewable energy community, just do it. Haidee Barclay from Scotland was inspired to work on one of the world’s largest offshore wind farms, run by Danish company Ørsted, after watching a documentary. Guess... Read more »
Repowering approval granted: 49.6 megawatt wind farm in Tüttendorf may be built
Energiequelle and European Energy A/S, two leading renewable energy developers, are pleased to have received approval for the repowering of a wind farm in Tüttendorf (Schleswig-Holstein) Read more »
Energy Transition Town Twinnings
Renewable Energy Agency (AEE) and Berlin Governance Platform (BGP) are once again reaching out to cities and municipalities in Ukraine, Moldova and Serbia to build partnerships to strengthen the exchange on the European energy transition across national borders. Read more »
Biofuels and iLUC - Why indirect is far from certain
While biofuels contribute more than 90% of all renewable energy in European transport (2021), their climate benefit has been disputed based on a supposed effect called "indirect Land Use Change (iLUC)”. However, while the theory appears to describe a plausible chain of effects, the iLUC effect’s... Read more »
The German electricity mix in 2022
At 254 billion kilowatt hours, renewables supplied about around 44 percent of Germany's gross electricity generation in 2022. Read more »
German dependency on foreign energy resources
With the exception of lignite Germany is almost entirely dependent on supplies of energy resources from abroad. For uranium and and hard coal the import quota is as high as 100 percent. Read more »
Commissioning of the French Energiequelle wind farm Saint-Morand
Four Enercon E-103 wind turbines to supply around 5,200 households in futur Read more »
Heating and cooling from renewables gradually increasing
According to Eurostat, approximately half of the EU's total gross final energy consumption is attributed to energy used for heating and cooling. Over time, the gross final consumption of renewable energy for heating and cooling purposes in the EU has gradually risen, primarily due to the... Read more »
"Renewable resources can be harvested to cover all of our energy needs.” - an interview with Henrik Stiesdal
Henrik Stiesdal is a Danish inventor, businessman, and one of the foremost leading figures in wind power. In the interview celebrating Global Wind Day 2023 he talks about the beginnings and future prospects of Wind Energy. Read more »
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