The European Investment Bank (EIB) will lend Spanish utility Naturgy €1bn to increase renewable power generation by 2.3GW, enough to power over a million homes. Naturgy will use the money…

China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) started building China’s biggest offshore solar farm on Sunday at Haibin harbour in Lianyungang city in eastern China’s Jiangsu Province, Global Times reports. Costing $1.39bn,…

Mott MacDonald has been chosen to provide owner’s engineering and advisory services on the Leopard Project, billed as one of Europe’s largest battery energy storage projects with a physical capacity…

French construction group Vinci has finalised a €50m investment NatPower, a renewable energy developer set up in 2019. The company, which is based in Milan, London and Washington, DC, has…

Google has broken ground on its second data centre in the French-speaking Hainaut region of Belgium. It’s part of a €1bn programme that also involves expanding the US company’s existing…

Morocco has set a target of investing $1bn a year in solar and wind power with the aim of generating a majority of its energy from renewables and cutting its…

The US Department of Defence has announced plans to add renewable energy sources to the Pentagon. The building, the world’s second largest office, will be fitted with solar panels and…

The US Department of Transportation has given a $427m grant to a port and power project in northern California. The money will pay for a terminal at Humboldt Bay, a…

The company that manages China’s electricity grid says it will invest more than $70bn in its network this year to improve long-distance transmission and accommodate more intermittent renewable generators. State…

Norwegian renewable energy generator Statkraft has announced plans to invest up to €6bn on hydroelectric and wind projects. The state-owned company, the largest generator of green power in Europe, plans…

Indian conglomerate Adani has secured a loan of $1.36bn from a consortium of banks to build the world’s largest solar and wind park at Khavda in the western state of…

A joint venture between Siemens Energy and Spain’s Dragados Offshore has landed a €7bn contract to design and build three offshore wind-farm energy converter platforms in the German North Sea…

The drive to normalise wood as a primary building material in Europe continues with the start of a mass timber commercial building in Helsinki, Finland, developed by Finnish pension insurer,…

The EU lacks 1.6 million trained professionals to meet its climate targets, according to a report from management consultant McKinsey. The study also found that supply chain issues were hindering…

Hydrogene De France (HDF Energy) has begun work on the world’s first high-power hydrogen fuel cell factory on the site of a former Ford plant in Blanquefort near Bordeaux. It…

Chinese company Mingyang Smart Energy has announced plans to build the world’s largest offshore wind turbine, a unit with a rotor diameter of 280m that would be able to supply…

UGL, a subsidiary of Australian contractor Cimic, has been appointed by French energy company Neoen to install high voltage infrastructure at the 1,500ha Western Downs Green Power Hub in Queensland,…

A subsidiary of French contractor Vinci has won a contract worth €4bn to build wind farm infrastructure in the North Sea. Cobra IS and its subsidiary Dragados Offshore will work…