A webinar on Ireland and the SuperGrid, hosted by Wind Energy Ireland discussed in detail what a SuperGrid is, why it is so vital to Ireland’s energy future and how it ties in with Europe’s climate ambitions and progress towards greater energy autonomy. Martin Finucane, Principal Officer of the Department of Environment, Climate and Communications, … Read more
SuperNode, as part of trade association currENT, has submitted its response to the European Commission’s proposal for revisions of the guidelines for trans-European Networks for Energy (TEN-E). The TEN-E framework is significant as it is the most important EU instrument to develop an integrated European electricity infrastructure. The Commission is revising the TEN-E Guidelines to … Read more
WindEurope have stated that the installation rate of wind needs to double in order to assist in decarbonising Europe. An installation rate of at least 30 GW is required for Europe to meet estimated installed capacities for wind from the EU Commissions report “A Clean planet For All” In this report, there are several scenarios … Read more
The UK has been both the European leader, and world leader in the amount of offshore wind it has installed in its waters. The UK currently has an offshore wind installed capacity of approximately 10GW, with ambitions to reach an installed capacity of 40GW by 2030 as set out by Boris Johnson in the recent … Read more
Eurostat released data on Europes 2018 renewable energy shares last week and the data shows that the share of gross final energy consumption coming from renewable energy sources has reached 18% in 2018, up from 17.5% in 2017. To put this into perspective, Europe has a target of obtaining 20% of its gross final energy … Read more
A 1.4GW solar tender in Portugal has attracted a world-record low bid of €14.80 per MWh. The auction, which concluded on Monday, resulted in 1.15GW of contracts awarded to 13 as-yet-unnamed winners, which will now have 36 months to complete their projects. Read the full article
France has selected the consortium of EDF Renouvelables, innogy and Enbridge to construct and develop the Dunkirk offshore wind project. The tariff proposed by the consortium ”was significantly lower than EUR 50/MWh”, said François de Rugy, during the launch of the 480MW Saint-Nazaire offshore wind project in Saint-Nazaire. The strike price for this tender was initially expected to be … Read more
Over the last four years, researchers from all over Europe have been working on creating a New European Wind Atlas. The results are being presented in Brussels today. A mix of 30 partners from academia and industry in eight different countries have been collaborating across Europe on creating the New European Wind Atlas (NEWA) for … Read more
In a series of blogs, Eddie O’Connor will examine how Europe will meet it’s Paris decarbonisation goals. In this blog post, Eddie discusses how the renewable resources discussed in Blog Post 2 can be harnessed and used to power our society. I recognised in 2001 that there was one problem with wind … Read more
In a series of blogs, Eddie O’Connor will examine how Europe will meet it’s Paris decarbonisation goals. The first question with respect to renewable resource availability has to be; Do sufficient renewable resources exist or do we have to invent new generation of technologies that are not there now? Consider the … Read more