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[steve73] 15/5/2019 02:41

Nolfolk will be flattened.... oh, perhaps it's already happened..?

[pvb] 14/5/2019 22:07

Not if it's sploshed.

[uppompeii] 14/5/2019 22:05

It'll be nice in my bunker in Norfolk.

[pvb] 14/5/2019 21:53

...Possibly. But it will definitely be very sploshy in Norfolk.

[shalder] 14/5/2019 21:09

Will it still be nice in Norfolk if it lands there?

[solsticefire] 14/5/2019 20:14

He'll be back when Nibiru gets here.

[steve73] 14/5/2019 02:06

I think Ravin' left on the "B" ship many years ago...

[marcus wanky] 13/5/2019 22:10

RAVENNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!

[marcus wanky] 13/5/2019 20:57

Raven, we need you, the end is near.....

[ariane] 26/4/2019 11:07

Shell to replace gas with solar at Oman port

By Tom Kenning Apr 26, 2019 9:47 AM BST 0

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Credit: SOHAR Port / Free Zone

Credit: SOHAR Port / Free Zone

Oil and gas giant Shell is continuing its foray into clean energy by partnering with a major port and freezone in Oman to set up several distributed generation solar power projects and replace gas in powering local businesses.

SOHAR Port and Freezone signed a 600-hectare land lease agreement with Shell Development Oman (SDO) to set up commercial and industrial (C&I) solar plants in the range of 10-40MW in capacity. An initial 25MW PV project will be used to directly power smelting company Al Tamman Indsil Ferrochrome LLC. Oman is a major exporter of Chromite Ore.

SOHAR is a deep-sea port and freezone managed by Sohar Industrial Port Company (SIPC), a 50:50 joint venture between the Port of Rotterdam and the Sultanate of Oman.

Mark Geilenkirchen, CEO of SOHAR Port and Freezone said: “Sustainability is one of our key values in driving development at SOHAR and this partnership with Shell will create solar-powered solutions that are the first-of-its-kind in the country. This also marks an incredible milestone and the first step in our proactive long-term programme, that we have already begun implementing, to transform our 4,500-hectare development into a ‘green Freezone’. We hope that the changes we are implementing today will encourage current clients and future investors to adopt cleaner technologies and sustainable practices tomorrow.”

Chris Breeze, Shell Oman country chairman, added: “These solar PV projects will free up natural gas resources for better economic use, support the green agenda of the Sohar freezone and enable further economic development in Sohar, by unlocking large-scale solar opportunities.”;

Recent Shell activity includes being set up to acquire German energy storage firm sonnen and rebranding its consumer-facing supplier First Utility to Shell Energy. It also switched all of its residential customers in the UK to 100% renewable power.

In March, a consortium led by Saudi Arabia’s ACWA Power won a 500MW solar tender in Oman announced by the Oman Power and Water Procurement Company (OPWP).

[florenceorbis] 22/4/2019 09:07

Sohar Port, Shell join hands to build solar power plant
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Muscat Daily staff writer
April 22, 2019
Muscat -

In a significant effort to tap into the sultanate’s renewable energy potential, Sohar Port and Freezone recently entered into a land lease agreement with Shell Development Oman. This agreement means that businesses in the Sohar Freezone could be powered by solar photovoltaic (PV) projects instead of gas.

Last week, H E Laetitia van Asch, Ambassador of the Netherlands to Oman, hosted a ceremony to officiate this collaboration at the Crowne Plaza OCEC in Muscat.

Mark Geilenkirchen, CEO of Sohar Port and Freezone said, “Sustainability is one of our key values in driving development at Sohar Port and Freezone and this partnership with Shell will create solar powered solutions that are the first-of-its-kind in the country. This also marks an incredible milestone and the first step in our proactive long-term programme, that we have already begun implementing, to transform our 4,500-hectare development into a ‘green Freezone’. We hope that the changes we are implementing today will encourage current clients and future investors to adopt cleaner technologies and sustainable practices tomorrow.”

Sohar Port and Freezone will allocate 600 hectares of land for solar plants under development, with capacities ranging from 10MW up to 40MV. The pioneering project of 25MW will be focused on providing dedicated supply to Al Tamman Indsil Ferrochrome (ATIFC), and the entire development will create long lasting economic value for the nation and the companies within the freezone.

Chris Breeze, Shell Oman country chairman, stated, “Shaping a more sustainable energy future for Oman is everybody’s responsibility. It requires us to work towards reducing emissions, tackling climate change, and ultimately changing the way energy is produced and efficiently consumed. Shell is proud to be involved in Oman’s energy transition. These solar PV projects will free up natural gas resources for better economic use, support the green agenda of the Sohar freezone, and enable further economic development.”

H E Laetitia stated, “I am proud of this collaboration between Sohar Port and Freezone, Shell and ATIFC in Oman. It is an excellent example of how Dutch borne sustainable and innovative solutions in renewable energy and logistics is able to contribute simultaneously to turning the economic diversification and its energy transition into a success.”

[solsticefire] 16/4/2019 19:41

And i missed it?

[uppompeii] 15/4/2019 19:37

It's started...

[the grumpy old men] 10/4/2019 09:26

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Engie JV plans 898MW Mexico clean power push
Engie JV plans 898MW Mexico clean power push

Heolios EnTG partnership with Tokyo Gas developing two wind and four solar projects
10 April 2019 09:02 Onshore Wind [Image: Engie]

Engie and Tokyo Gas have formed a joint venture that will develop wind and solar energy projects in Mexico with a combined capacity of over 898MW.

The 50:50 JV, called Heolios EnTG, will develop, finance, construct, own, operate and maintain six renewable energy projects totalling 898.7MW.

Two of the facilities will be onshore wind, including the operational 50MW Tres Mesas plant, and four are solar farms.

The five remaining developments will come online this year and next. They are the Tres Mesas 4 wind farm, and the Abril, Villa Ahumada, Trompezon and Calpulalpan PV plants.

All six projects have 15-year power purchase agreements secured in Mexican power auctions.

Heolios EnTG builds on a relationship between the two companies dating back to 1983, the partners said.

Engie Latin America business head Pierre Chareyre said: “We are delighted to further consolidate the relationship of mutual trust between our teams and those of Tokyo Gas with the creation of Heolios EnTG.

“This joint venture will combine our complementary areas of expertise and will enable Engie to continue to grow in a key area, the development of renewables in Mexico with Tokyo Gas.

“The partnership scheme implemented with Tokyo Gas also highlights Engie’s commitment to dynamic capital allocation through sell-downs and new investments.

“Heolios EnTG will also enable Engie to actively support Mexico in achieving its national renewable targets and to decarbonise its energy sources.”

Tokyo Gas senior managing executive officer Kunio Nohata said: “We are very pleased to have this opportunity to actively participate in the Mexican renewable market together with Engie, now a world leading company in the renewable sector, with whom we have a longstanding relationship.

“We strongly believe Heolios EnTG would bring prosperity to both ENGIE and Tokyo Gas.

“This is a landmark achievement for us as this is the first renewable project joint venture that Tokyo Gas will participate in outside Japan.”

[grupo guitarlumber] 09/4/2019 11:41

08/04/2019 | 5:49 p.m.
Engie and Suez announce having inaugurated this day the solar photovoltaic park of Drambon-Pontailler, in Côte-d'Or.

"This installation is the first achievement resulting from the partnership between Engie and Suez with the objective of developing renewable energies in metropolitan France, by transforming waste storage centers into solar farms," explain the two groups.

With a capacity of 12 MWp, it will produce the equivalent of the annual electricity consumption of about 6,800 inhabitants, or nearly a third of the population of the canton Val de Saône.

[waldron] 27/3/2019 17:26

Macquarie Group Ltd. (MQG.AU) on Wednesday said its Green Investment Group Ltd. unit agreed to buy Tradewind Energy Inc.'s solar and energy storage unit for an undisclosed amount.

Tradewind is a unit of Enel S.p.A.'s (ENEL.MI) Enel Green Power North America unit.

Macquarie said the acquired business, named Savion LLC, has a portfolio that includes six gigawatts of solar and energy storage development projects.

Macquarie said the acquisition, which it expects to complete by midyear, advances GIG's mission to accelerate the transition to a greener global economy.



Write to Colin Kellaher at [e-mail]



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[grupo] 20/3/2019 11:45

BP explores buying solar energy to power operations in the U.S.
By Brian Eckhouse and Kelly Gilblom on 3/20/2019

SAN DIEGO and LONDON (Bloomberg) -- BP may become the next oil giant to power operations with clean energy.

The London-based company is in talks with a solar developer it partially owns, Lightsource BP, to buy power in the U.S., according to executives at the renewable company. A contract may be signed within six months, Lightsource BP CCO Katherine Ryzhaya said.

“It’s a no brainer for them to play in solar,” Ryzhaya said in an interview Tuesday at Infocast’s Solar Power Finance & Investment Summit in San Diego. “They’re doing it for financial reasons.”

BP didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. In 2017, the oil giant said it would invest $200 million in Lightsource BP over three years for a 43% stake.

Oil majors are turning to wind and solar to run their operations as clean energy becomes cheap enough to compete with fossil fuels. Exxon Mobil last year agreed to contracts to buy 500 megawatts of solar and wind power in in the Permian basin, the fastest growing U.S. oilfield. More recently, Petroleum Development Oman said it signed a deal to buy solar on the Arabian peninsula.

“It was only a matter of time before the oil companies started signing deals,” BloombergNEF analyst Kyle Harrison said in an email.

Buying solar power could help BP achieve its goal of growing without increasing its carbon footprint. Earlier this year, the company agreed to better disclose how its business aligns with the Paris climate accord after coming under pressure from shareholders.

[waldron] 15/3/2019 07:21

Continuous double-digit growth to initiate an industrial play within ENGIE’s new Roadmap
March 14, 2019 07:02 PM Eastern Daylight Time

PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Regulatory News:

Carlalberto Guglielminotti, Chief Executive Officer at ENGIE EPS (Paris:EPS), commented “In 2018 ENGIE EPS posted an impressive growth with revenues increased by 57%, and thanks to ENGIE’s support a more than doubled backlog with a pipeline of over €300 million, maintaining a 30% gross margin. These results witness the intensity and commitment of the extraordinary people we have at ENGIE EPS. There are now hundreds of megawatts of microgrids and solar-plus-storage tenders around the world and together with ENGIE Solar we are positioned as top-tier player with a unique vertically integrated and turn-key value proposition. We will now focus on continuous sustainable growth as well as on our path to profitability. These results were achieved during a year where ENGIE EPS experienced a transformational change in its ownership structure, including a capital raise subscribed by old and new investors”.

2018 KEY FIGURES1

Revenues amount to €15.5 million as of 31 December 2018, up 57% compared to the previous year. This growth is mainly due to positive developments in our core addressable markets: microgrids in islands and emerging countries, and grid support in developed economies – in both cases partnering with ENGIE. In particular, successful deployment of microgrids such as the Comoros, Somaliland, New Caledonia and Singapore. More importantly, growth is also due to grid-connected solutions in Europe with 24MW storage systems that went online in Spain, Italy and Belgium.

Pipeline as of the date of this Press Release increased by 101% compared to 28 March 2018, reaching €302 million. Order intake in 2018 has reached 41.3MW, representing approximately €10.9 million. This achievement confirms the effectiveness of ENGIE EPS’ business model in Southern Europe, Africa and Asia Pacific regions, which has enabled ENGIE EPS to accelerate its growth reaching a total of 46 customers in 23 countries across the globe.

Project Backlog as of the date of this Press Release corresponds to €52.4 million, an increase of 109% compared to 28 March 2018. ENGIE’s projects played a pivotal role, including a solar-plus-storage project awarded in partnership with ENGIE Solar representing 61% of the Project Backlog. This includes the total EPC value of such solar-plus-storage project whereas the related revenue recognition for the PV portion (approx. 55% of the Project Backlog) will depend on the final allocation of the EPC responsibilities between ENGIE EPS and ENGIE Solar.

In other terms, notwithstanding the retendering of the Armonia project in Palau announced on 15 February 20192, Project Backlog more than doubled compared to last year, and is currently comprised of €42.7 million projects on an EPC basis, and €9.7 million projects secured on a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) basis, for which financing is currently under structuring.

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1 The 2018 consolidated IFRS financial statements have been approved by the board of Directors on 14 March 2019, the audit procedures have been completed and the statutory auditors’ report is in the process of being issued.
2 The Armonia project represented a 100MW microgrid, which had been awarded to ENGIE EPS (see 12 October 2018 press release) and was included in the backlog after that date. Following the Palau government’s decision, for internal reason, to reopen the tender (see 15 February 2019 press release), it is no longer included in the backlog.

[waldron] 26/2/2019 14:18

26/02/2019 | 2:42 p.m.
TOTAL EREN ACQUIRES NOVENERGIA HOLDING COMPANY
The French group Total Eren announced on Tuesday an agreement to acquire NovEnergia Holding Company (NHC), an independent producer of renewable electricity, mainly active in southern Europe.

NHC has a diversified portfolio of solar and wind power plants as well as mini hydropower plants, representing a total net installed capacity of 657 megawatts (MW) and 47 assets in operation, says the renewable energy company, which Total indirectly owns. 23%.

NHC's business is concentrated mainly in six European markets: Portugal, Italy, France, Spain, Bulgaria, and Poland.

"This acquisition underscores Total Eren's ability to successfully establish itself as a major industrial player in the renewable energy sector in less than seven years," said Total Eren President Pâris Mouratoglou, quoted by a statement.

This transaction values ​​NHC at more than one billion euros.

(Catherine Mallebay-Vacqueur, edited by Jean-Michel Bélot)

[jonc] 16/2/2019 17:30

They do have the effect of wiping your memory.