All articles by Ilaria Grasso Macola

A look at Tanzania’s first wind farm

The Mwenga project, the first wind farm to ever be built in Tanzania, has reached completion as installation and testing works…
TIGER power: Anglo-French tidal energy ramps up in the Channel

The Tidal Stream Industry Energiser Project (TIGER) is planning to install 8.8MW of tidal capacity in six locations across the…
Geronimo signs PPA with Big Rivers for 160MW solar project

Geronimo Energy has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Big Rivers Electric Corporation for a solar project located in…
Q&A: how plastics innovation can spur on renewables with SABIC

Scientists have calculated that 22kWh are required to produce a kg of plastic, four times the amount of energy used…
SGRE wins turbine contracts for 2,640MW Virginia wind farm

Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) has won a contract to supply its SG 14-222 direct drive offshore wind turbine for…

NextEnergy builds subsidy-free solar plants despite coronavirus

Renewable energy sector investment manager NextEnergy Capital (NEC) has obtained financing to build two subsidy-free UK solar plants amongst the Covid-19…
Coronavirus company news summary – EDF to submit application for Sizewell C – Brazil new nuclear reactor to get delayed

26 May EDF Energy is expected to submit a planning application for the Sizewell C nuclear plant in the UK…
EU to hold 15GW of renewable energy tenders

According to a leaked document, in the next two years, the European Commission will hold 15GW-worth of renewable energy tenders.…
Puerto Rico publishes first study on nuclear reactor feasibility

The Nuclear Alternative Project (NAP) has published the results from its study on the feasibility of nuclear reactors in Puerto…
Coronavirus company news summary – UK registers 40% YoY surge in power generation – New England grid to meet power demands

22 May Wind farms in the UK registered a 40% year-on-year surge in output in the first quarter of this…