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Orsted has finished constructing its thousandth turbine in English waters. The turbine is among the 165 Siemens Gamesa turbines to be installed in Orsted’s HornSea II project off the East Yorkshire coast. Once operational, the 1.4GW HornSea II will arguably be the world’s largest offshore wind farm. Orsted has been in the business of developing wind farms in the UK since 2004. Its plants constitute more than 50% of all wind farms in the country.
  • July 2, 2021
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Drones are gathering a lot of interest for their use in wind turbine inspection. Some companies state that they have been able to reduce inspection time by 50% and inspection cost by 80%.
  • July 1, 2021
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Sadiq Khan, London's mayor announced that a fleet of 20 new buses will be added into active service which will run on hydrogen. These buses will run alongside 500 electric and 3,800 hybrid buses which are already in service. The government has set a target to make all of London’s buses zero-emission by the end of this decade.
  • July 1, 2021
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A Swiss company working in carbon technology, Climeworks has devised a plant which can extract and absorb CO2 directly from the atmosphere and store it. The stored carbon dioxide can either be sold to industries which need carbon (carbonated drinks, carbon-neutral fuel) or transported for permanent storage. The facility can remove 900 tonnes of carbon dioxide from the air on an annual basis. Currently, it has secured commercial viability by partnering with a nearby agricultural firm that buys all the carbon captured in a year to make fertilizers.
  • June 30, 2021
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Storegga and Carbon Engineering (CE), British companies working in carbon capture have announced the beginning of a new project which can potentially remove up to a million tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere each year. The partners are considering locations in North-east Scotland, near another CCS project in Aberdeenshire which is expected to be operational by 2025. Storegga and Carbon Engineering’s project is expected to be operational a year later.
  • June 30, 2021
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A small start-up based in Silicon Valley has come up with the idea to build micro-reactors of 1.5MWe which can be used in small-scale energy situations such as university campuses, utility companies, industrial sites, large companies. The start-up, called Oklo has designed the micro-reactors in such a way that they will be powered by waste generated by large-scale nuclear power plants.
  • June 29, 2021
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DNV, an international accredited registrar and classification society headquartered in Høvik, Norway has been given the green signal to conduct an impact assessment study for a carbon capture and storage pipeline. The study will investigate the viability of reusing existing offshore pipelines to transport carbon dioxide emissions. DNV has been conducting related studies for the project as part of its plan to develop a large-scale offshore carbon capture and storage project in the Dutch North Sea.
  • June 24, 2021
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Surveys have begun at the site of a 3GW offshore wind project in the UK which is being constructed by a consortium of British Petroleum (BP) and Energie Baden-Württemberg AG (EnBW), a German energy company. Being called the GW Yellow North and South Offshore Wind Project, the project is spread across two sites off the coasts of North West England and North Wales.
  • June 22, 2021
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In collaboration with Highland Wind Limited and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), a Danish fund management company has announced its plan to build a floating wind farm off the coast of Dounreay in Scotland. Being called the Pentland Floating Offshore Wind Farm (PFOWF), the plant will have a capacity of up to 100MW. Its purpose is to test offshore wind technology for the Scottish government and energy industry.
  • June 19, 2021
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Santos, an Australian firm supplying natural gas and its project partner, Beach Energy have secured a grant of AUD15 million from the Carbon Capture Use and Storage Development Fund instituted by the Australian government. The partners won the grant in recognition of their AUD210 million CCS project in Moomba, South Australia.
  • June 18, 2021
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