(IN BRIEF) Neste and Fortum have extended their strategic energy partnership through a new bilateral agreement for 2026–2030 under which Fortum will supply approximately 2.6 TWh of electricity from its Nordic generation portfolio to support Neste’s Finnish operations, particularly its … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, Financial, Finland, Government, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Management, Technology
Tagged bilateral electricity agreement, electricity supply security, energy transition, Finland energy market, Fortum, hedging strategy, industrial electrification, Jori Sahlsten, long-term power contract, low-carbon energy, Neste, Neste and Fortum Strengthen Strategic Energy Cooperation to Support Industrial Electrification and Supply Security, Nordic power generation, Porvoo refinery, renewable fuels, Urs Pennanen
(IN BRIEF) Wood has secured a 16-month extension to its technical personnel and engineering support contract with Shell U.K. Limited, enabling it to continue providing specialist services across key Southern North Sea assets including the Leman and Sole Pit platforms, … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, Financial, Government, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Management, News, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged asset maintenance, Bacton Gas Plant, brownfield EPC, Darren Anderson, energy infrastructure, energy operations, energy transition, engineering, engineering procurement and construction, engineering support services, industrial services, Kroonborg walk-to-work vessel, Leman platform, National Transmission System, normally unattended installations, North Sea energy, NUIs, offshore engineering, offshore gas, offshore gas infrastructure, offshore operations, offshore platforms, oil and gas operations, Shell, Shell U K Limited, Sole Pit platform, Southern North Sea, technical personnel, technical personnel services, UK energy security, UK gas supply, UK offshore energy, UK Operations, W2W, W2W vessel, Wood, Wood Group, Wood Strengthens Long-Standing Partnership with Shell U.K. Limited Through Extended Engineering and Personnel Services Agreement
(IN BRIEF) 50Hertz reported that its Baltic Sea offshore grid connection systems transmitted around 5,400 GWh of electricity in 2025, roughly ten percent more than the previous year despite weak wind conditions, driven mainly by the full integration of the … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Energy, Gas & Oil, Financial, Germany, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Management, News
Tagged 400 GWh, 5, 50Hertz, 50Hertz Highlights Rising Importance of Baltic Sea Offshore Wind as New Projects Advance Toward Operation, Arcadis Ost 1, Baltic Eagle, Baltic Sea, Bornholm Energy Island, climate protection, Energinet, energy transition, Gennaker, grid connection systems, HVDC interconnector, Iberdrola, Offshore wind, onshore wind, Rügen, security of supply, Skyborn Renewables, Stefan Kapferer, Windanker
(IN BRIEF) Neste Corporation has appointed Jukka Siukosaari as Senior Vice President, Public Affairs and Geopolitics, effective 1 June 2026, adding significant diplomatic and strategic expertise to its leadership team. Siukosaari joins Neste from the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Energy, Gas & Oil, Financial, Finland, Industrial, Investment, Management, Technology
Tagged Ambassador of Finland to Denmark, Ambassador to Argentina, Ambassador to Japan, Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Chief of Staff Office of the President of Finland, energy transition, geopolitical strategy, Heikki Malinen, Jukka Siukosaari, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Finland, Neste Appoints Jukka Siukosaari as Senior Vice President for Public Affairs and Geopolitics, Neste Corporation, Neste Strengthens Leadership in Public Affairs with Appointment of Jukka Siukosaari, Permanent Representative to IMO, Public Affairs, regulatory affairs, renewable diesel, Senior Vice President Public Affairs and Geopolitics, stakeholder engagement, sustainable aviation fuel
(IN BRIEF) Fugro is conducting detailed nearshore geophysical and geotechnical surveys to support SSEN Transmission’s Western Isles HVDC Link, a project that will transmit up to 1,800 MW of renewable electricity from Scotland’s islands to the UK mainland and strengthen … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, Financial, Government, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Management, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged ARAN 250, Arnish Point, Dundonnell, energy transition, Fugro, Fugro Advances Nearshore Survey Work to Support SSEN Transmission’s Western Isles HVDC Renewable Energy Link, GB Transmission network, geophysical survey, geotechnical boreholes, Isle of Lewis, Matthew Chappell, Niall MacLeod, renewable energy, SSEN Transmission, Subsea Cable, underground cable, Wallingford laboratory, Western Isles HVDC Link
(IN BRIEF) RWE and the municipalities surrounding the Hambach opencast mine have deepened their cooperation by enabling NEULAND HAMBACH GmbH to acquire a 49 percent stake in a 14 MWp photovoltaic plant near Niederzier, which has been operational since summer … Read the full press release
Posted in Energy, Gas & Oil, Germany, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Management, News
Tagged battery storage, Dr Lars Kulik, Elsdorf, energy transition, Frank Rombey, Hambach opencast mine, Jülich, Katja Wünschel, Kerpen, Merzenich, Neuland Hambach GmbH, Niederzier, Photovoltaic Plant, renewable energy, Rhenish region, RWE, RWE and NEULAND HAMBACH Strengthen Regional Energy Transition with Joint Solar and Battery Portfolio, solar energy, structural change, Titz
(IN BRIEF) RWE has signed a five-year Power Purchase Agreement with Lidl GB to supply 100 gigawatt hours of renewable electricity annually, covering just over 15 percent of the retailer’s national power demand in the United Kingdom, with the energy … Read the full press release
Posted in Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, Germany, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, News, Retail, United Kingdom
Tagged corporate PPA, corporate sustainability, energy transition, Green Energy, Gwynt y Môr wind farm, Irish Sea, Kaskasi wind farm, Lidl GB, North Sea, Offshore wind, Power Purchase Agreement, renewable electricity, RWE, RWE to Deliver 100 GWh of Offshore Wind Power Annually to Lidl GB Through New Long-Term PPA, Schwarz Group, UK retail
(IN BRIEF) Bilfinger has been selected as part of a consortium to deliver key fabrication, assembly, and installation services for bp’s new 100-megawatt green hydrogen electrolyzer in Lingen, Germany, a facility expected to become bp’s largest of its kind and … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Energy, Gas & Oil, Germany, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Management, News, Technology
Tagged Bilfinger, Bilfinger to Provide Large-Scale Fabrication and Installation Services for bp’s Flagship Green Hydrogen Plant in Lingen, BP, electrolyzer plant, energy transition, GREEN HYDROGEN, HVAC systems, Hydrogen Core Network, hydrogen economy, hydrogen infrastructure, Industrial Decarbonization, Lingen Germany, piping installation, prefabrication, renewable energy, Thomas Schulz
(IN BRIEF) Uniper and NKT have signed a ten-year physical Power Purchase Agreement under which NKT will purchase 100% of the renewable electricity and associated Guarantees of Origin from Uniper’s new 17.2 MWp Voslapper Groden solar park in Wilhelmshaven, supporting … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, Financial, Germany, Government, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Management, Technology
Tagged Andreas Gemballa, clean power, Cologne, energy transition, Germany, GoOs, Guarantees of Origin, Industrial Decarbonization, Iulia Tica, Michael C Hjorth, NKT, Nordenham, Photovoltaic, Power Purchase Agreement, PPA, renewable electricity, solar power, sustainable energy, Uniper, Uniper and NKT Sign Ten-Year PPA for Renewable Power from Wilhelmshaven Solar Park, Voslapper Groden, Wilhelmshaven
(IN BRIEF) LUT University and Research Director Petteri Laaksonen have been named Energy Transition Leader of the Year 2025 at the Wind Oulu seminar, receiving both the jury’s main award and the public Audience Award in recognition of their long-term … Read the full press release
Posted in Awards, Business, Education, Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, Financial, Finland, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Management, Media, Technology
Tagged Antti Herlin, clean energy research, energy transition, Energy Transition Leader of the Year 2025, hydrogen economy, Julia Sangervo, LUT University, LUT University and Petteri Laaksonen Named Energy Transition Leader of the Year 2025 at Wind Oulu, Matti Vanhanen, Petteri Laaksonen, Power-to-X, renewable energy Finland, science-based policy, Wind Oulu
(IN BRIEF) Siemens Smart Infrastructure has launched Siprotec V, a virtualized protection and control solution that consolidates up to 60 hardware-based devices into a single server-based platform for digital substations, enabling faster project execution, greater scalability, and significant cost and … Read the full press release
Posted in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Business, Environment, Financial, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Management, Switzerland, Technology
Tagged AI in substations, and more resilient substations, BDEW, CAPEX reduction, carbon emissions, Cybersecurity, digital substations, energy transition, greener, grid modernization, grid resilience, intelligent electronic devices, lifecycle cost savings, NERC CIP, project acceleration, protection and control, Siemens Smart Infrastructure, Siprotec V, Siprotec V consolidates protection and control functions to deliver faster, space optimization, virtualization
(IN BRIEF) Eni and Q8 Italy have approved a major joint investment to build a new 500,000-tonne-per-year biorefinery in Priolo, Sicily, using Eni’s Ecofining™ technology to produce HVO and Sustainable Aviation Fuel with at least 65% lower emissions than fossil … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Energy, Gas & Oil, Industrial, Investment, Italy
Tagged biofuels, biorefinery, decarbonisation, Ecofining™, energy transition, Eni, Eni and Q8 Italy deepen strategic partnership with large-scale biorefinery development in Sicily, Enilive, Giuseppe Ricci, HVO, Industrial Transformation, Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, Priolo, Q8 Italy, SAF, Shafi Taleb Al Ajmi, Sicily, sustainable aviation fuel
(IN BRIEF) Ørsted has agreed to sell its entire European onshore renewable energy business to Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners for EUR 1.44 billion, with expected closing in Q2 2026 subject to regulatory approval, marking the completion of its previously announced divestment … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Denmark, Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, News, Technology
Tagged battery storage, BESS, capital proceeds, Changhua 2, CI V, CIP, Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, Copenhagen Infrastructure V, divestment programme, energy transition, European onshore business, Germany, Green Investment, Hornsea 3, Ireland, Mads Skovgaard-Andersen, Offshore wind, onshore wind, regulatory approval, renewable energy, solar energy, Spain, Trond Westlie, United Kingdom, Ørsted, Ørsted completes landmark divestment programme with EUR 1.44 billion sale of European onshore business to CIP, Ørsted finalises three cornerstone transactions and strengthens balance sheet through sale of European onshore assets
(IN BRIEF) Vattenfall’s latest Energy Barometer reveals that while European consumers are broadly optimistic about the energy transition, most believe stronger government support is needed to drive meaningful progress. The survey, conducted by Statista across five countries, shows that half … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, Financial, Government, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Management, Sweden, Technology
Tagged Alexander van Ofwegen, climate-friendly lifestyle, consumer behavior, decarbonization, Energy Barometer, energy efficiency, energy transition, Finland, fossil-free energy, Germany, government support, heat pumps, infrastructure investment, Netherlands, renewable energy, solar panels, Statista, sustainability, sustainable consumption, Sweden, United Kingdom, Vattenfall, Vattenfall’s Energy Barometer Shows Strong Public Support for the Energy Transition Coupled with Calls for Greater Government Action
(IN BRIEF) ANDRITZ is investing a higher double-digit million euro amount by 2028 to expand and modernise its turbo generator production facilities in Linz and Weiz, responding to rising global energy demand and the growing importance of grid stability. The … Read the full press release
Posted in Austria, Energy, Gas & Oil, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Management, Metals and Minerals, Technology
Tagged air cooled generators, Andritz, ANDRITZ Strengthens Energy Technology Footprint with Multi-Million-Euro Expansion in Linz and Weiz, Austria, decentralised power generation, energy infrastructure, energy transition, grid stability, hydrogen cooled generators, hydropower technology, Linz, low carbon power systems, manufacturing expansion, skilled jobs, turbo generators, Weiz
(IN BRIEF) RWE has approved investment in a 400-megawatt battery storage system in Lingen, Lower Saxony, to strengthen grid stability and support the integration of renewable energy. Built on a former industrial site, the facility will be able to deliver … Read the full press release
Posted in Energy, Gas & Oil, Germany, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Management, News
Tagged Amprion, balancing energy, battery storage, Emsland power plant, energy storage system, energy transition, grid stability, Hilgenberg substation, inertia, instantaneous reserve, Lingen, lithium-ion batteries, Lower Saxony, renewable energy integration, RWE, RWE Advances Grid Stability with 400 Megawatt Battery Storage Project in Lingen, utility scale battery storage
(IN BRIEF) Eneco and Whspr have launched a partnership to pilot a new silent heat pump that enables flexible installation in densely populated residential areas. Designed to operate at much lower noise levels than conventional systems, the heat pump can … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Management, Netherlands, Technology
Tagged Eneco, Eneco and Whspr Partner to Pilot Silent Heat Pump Designed for Densely Built Residential Areas, energy transition, home heating innovation, Low-Noise Technology, pilot programme, renewable heating, residential heat pumps, silent heat pump, sustainable heating, terraced housing, urban energy solutions, Whspr, Wooncompagnie
(IN BRIEF) Uniper has entered into a renewable electricity supply agreement with nLighten to power all of the company’s German data centers with carbon-free energy available 24/7. The contract combines standard electricity with a guaranteed hydropower baseload and offers hourly … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, Germany, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Management, Technology
Tagged 24/7 carbon-free energy, Andreas Gemballa, data centers, digital infrastructure, energy traceability, energy transition, Francesco Marasco, Germany, hourly guarantees of origin, hydropower baseload, nLighten, Renewable Electricity Supply, Scope 3 reporting, TÜV Süd certification, Uniper, Uniper Delivers Hourly Traceable Renewable Power Solution for nLighten’s Expanding German Data Center Portfolio, Uniper Strengthens Low-Carbon Digital Infrastructure with Baseload Hydropower Agreement for nLighten in Germany
(IN BRIEF) AFRY has secured multiple top positions in the latest Engineering News-Record rankings, reinforcing its status as a global leader in engineering and design. The company retained first place in Pulp & Paper, climbed to third in hydro, and … Read the full press release
Posted in Awards, Business, Construction, Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Management, News, Sweden, Technology
Tagged AFRY, AFRY Achieves Leading Positions Across Industrial and Power Sectors in ENR Rankings, AFRY Ranks Among Global Engineering Leaders with Strong ENR Performance, decarbonisation, energy transition, engineering and design, Engineering News-Record, ENR rankings, hydro power, industrial processes, Industrial Transformation, Linda Pålsson, power sector, pulp and paper, renewable energy, solar generation, wind generation
(IN BRIEF) Allianz Global Investors has acquired a 20.25% minority stake in the îles d’Yeu et Noirmoutier offshore wind farm in France from Ocean Winds, marking the first offshore wind partnership between the two groups and Allianz’s first such investment … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Energy, Gas & Oil, Financial, France, Germany, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, News
Tagged Allianz Global Investors, Allianz Global Investors Partners with Ocean Winds on Late-Stage Offshore Wind Development in France, Allianz Investment Management, decarbonization, EDP Renewables, energy transition, ENGIE, European renewables, France offshore wind, îles d’Yeu et Noirmoutier offshore wind farm, insurance-backed infrastructure investment, Ocean Winds, offshore wind energy, renewable energy investment
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