HELSINKI, 19-Dec-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — NIB and the Finnish energy company Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (TVO) have signed a loan agreement of EUR 65 million financing safety system upgrades in two existing nuclear power plant units in Finland. This ten-year loan will contribute to TVO’s refurbishment project … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Energy, Gas & Oil, Financial, Finland, Industrial, Security & Safety, Uncategorized
Tagged electricity, Finland, Henrik Normann, loan, NIB, nuclear, nuclear power plant, Olkiluoto, power, safety, safety system, Teollisuuden Voima Oyj, TVO
STOCKHOLM, 18-Dec-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — In parallel to being assessed for their financial and business performance, companies are to an increasing extent, also rated for their sustainability performance. The environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria is a set of standards … Read the full press release
Posted in Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, Infrastructure & Utilities, Management, Sweden
Tagged audits, business ethics, ESG, executive pay, Governance, human rights, leadership, Sustainalyctis, Vattenfall
STOCKHOLM, 18-Dec-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — Vattenfall and the Norwegian industrial group Elkem have signed a long-term electricity supply agreement for the period 2020 – 2026. The deal is the first major supply agreement with Elkem and includes supply of 260 GWh … Read the full press release
Posted in Energy, Gas & Oil, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Norway, Sweden
Tagged Bjørn Bruvik, electricity, electricity supply, Elkem, ENERGY, ferrous silicon, foundry, Morten Viga, Norway, silicon, Vattenfall
WINDSOR, 18-Dec-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — Centrica plc (the ‘Company’) announces that after nearly 4 years with the Company Mark Hodges, Chief Executive, Centrica Consumer will be leaving on 28th February 2019 to take up a new role as Chief Executive of … Read the full press release
Posted in Energy, Gas & Oil, Management, United Kingdom
Tagged appointment, Centrica, CEO, Iain Conn, leadership, Management, Mark Hodges, ReAssure, Sarwjit Sambhi
La Défense, France, 17-Dec-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — ENGIE, the global energy company and major player in charging infrastructure for electric vehicles, and Arval, the global specialist in corporate vehicle fleet leasing, have announced the launch of a new green transport offer … Read the full press release
Equinor has been declared the provisional winner of one of the three leases offered in the US government’s wind lease sale for an area offshore the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Stavanger, Norway, 17-Dec-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — Equinor submitted a winning bid of … Read the full press release
Stavanger, Norway, 17-Dec-2018 — On 16 December Equinor and its partners started production from the Aasta Hansteen gas field in the Norwegian Sea. Today, 17 December gas from the Aasta Hansteen field is available to the market for the first … Read the full press release
Posted in Energy, Gas & Oil, Industrial, Norway
Tagged Aasta Hansteen, Anders Opedal, Arne Sigve Nylund, ConocoPhillips, Equinor, gas, gas export, OMV, Sandnessjøen, Wintershall
The 185 MW wind farm will sell its power to Bloomberg LP, General Motors and Constellation, an Exelon company Enel invested approximately 325 million US dollars in the construction of the wind farm, which will generate around 570 GWh per … Read the full press release
Posted in Energy, Gas & Oil, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Italy
Tagged Antonio Cammisecra, electricity, Enel, Illinois, power, renewable energy, wind facility, wind farm
The company’s presence was renewed following the second half 2018 review The Group’s subsidiaries Endesa, Enel Américas and Enel Chile were also confirmed in the latest edition of the index ROME, 13-Dec-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — Enel S.p.A. (“Enel”) has been … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Energy, Gas & Oil, Infrastructure & Utilities, Italy, Management
Tagged anticorruption, biodiversity, conservation, Enel S.p.A., environmental, ESG, FTSE4GOOD, Governance, labour, safety, social, sustainability, waste
Forecasting Eye LONDON, 10-Dec-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — The announcement from the margins of the G20 that Russia and the Saudis were cooperating on oil pricing certainly gave a fillip to the oil markets. The Brent crude future rose from $58.76 per barrel … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Economy, Energy, Gas & Oil, Industrial, Management, United Kingdom
Tagged Brent crude, Cebr, Dubai Fateh, G20, LNG, oil, oil market, oil price, OPEC, Qatar, RUSSIA, Saudis
St. Petersburg hosted today the 39th Presiding Committee Meeting of the International Business Congress (IBC) moderated by Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee and President of the IBC. MOSCOW, 10-Dec-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — The event participants took stock of the IBC performance in 2018 and defined … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Energy, Gas & Oil, Industrial, Russia
Tagged Alexey Miller, Ecology, Gazprom, Healthcare, IBC, International Business Congress, Linde, scholarship, St Petersburg, staff training, Uniper, Wintershall
Egyptian Government approval for the sale of a 20% interest to Mubadala Petroleum and a 25% interest to BP out of Eni’s share in the Nour North Sinai Offshore exploratory concession has been granted. The approval follows the signing of … Read the full press release
Posted in Energy, Gas & Oil, Industrial, Italy
Tagged BP, concession, EGYPT, Eni, Mubadala Petroleum, Nour North Sinai, oil
Development finance institutions share their experience at COP24 LONDON, 06-Dec-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — Climate change impacts are high on the international agenda. From severe wildfires in California and Greece to devastating floods in Kerala, these impacts have dominated headlines this year. Both … Read the full press release
€15 million loan to the city of Craiova The city to buy environmentally friendly buses and improve energy efficiency of public buildings EBRD to help Craiova develop an action plan to boost green infrastructure LONDON, 06-Dec-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — Some 300,000 … Read the full press release
Nemo Link is the first transmission link between the two countries It enables transmission of 1,000 MW electricity using Siemens HVDC Plus technology Siemens built converter stations housing the state of the art HVDC equipment in both Herdersbrug (Belgium) and … Read the full press release
Posted in Belgium, Energy, Gas & Oil, Germany, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged Chris Peeters, electricity, grid, Herdersbrug, high voltage direct current, HVDC, interconnector, John Pettigrew, Mirko Düsel, Nemo Link, power grid, Ralf Christian, Richborough, Siemens
HELSINKI, 06-Dec-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — PT. Indonesia Power has awarded Pöyry with a three-year Framework Agreement contract for a number of different types of renewable power projects across Indonesia. The assignment includes wind power, solar PV, battery storage and different renewable … Read the full press release
Posted in Energy, Gas & Oil, Finland, Industrial, Technology
Tagged battery storage, geothermal plants, Hybrid, hydro power, Indonesia, Kishore Dass, power, power generation, Pöyry, PT Indonesia Power, PV, renewable, Solar PV, wind power
CEO informs Hamburg’s First Mayor about the merger between Wintershall and DEA HAMBURG, 04-Dec-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — Germany’s largest natural gas and crude oil producer advocates greater use of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in maritime shipping. “Europe’s ports need LNG … Read the full press release
Project to utilize 58 SG 8.0-167 DD offshore wind turbines; 17-year Long Term Service agreement with logistics included SeaMade is the name of two combined offshore wind projects, previously known as Mermaid (235 MW) and Seastar (252 MW) Clean energy … Read the full press release
ESPOO, 03-Dec-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the US published the final ruling covering renewable fuel volume requirements under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program for 2019, and biomass-based diesel for 2020 on 30 November 2018. Neste … Read the full press release
Posted in Energy, Gas & Oil, Finland, Industrial
Tagged biofuel, Biomass, biomass-based diesel, diesel, EPA, Kaisa Hietala, low carbon fuel, Neste, renewable, renewable diesel, renewable fuel
The European Commission today called for the bloc to aim for net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 in its new decarbonisation strategy. BRUSSELS, 29-Nov-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — The EU’s newly-agreed renewable energy and energy efficiency targets put the bloc on track … Read the full press release
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