France – In a new analysis, the IEA believes the global energy crisis is accelerating renewable power installations, which will virtually quadruple in the next five years, replacing coal as the leading source of electricity generation and helping keep global warming below 1.5 °C.
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The Netherlands – KBR has been granted a contract to offer engineering services for CrossWind, a joint venture (JV) between Shell and Dutch utility company Eneco.
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The Netherlands – The Dutch Territorial Just Transition Plan (TJTP) has been approved by the EU Commission, making 623 million dollars available through the Just Transition Fund (JTF) to support a just transition to a climate-neutral economy.
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Norway – DNV is working with Reodor Studios to develop a digital service that will make it simple to plan for sustainable decommissioning and recycling after a wind farm’s life cycle has ended.
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Ireland/United Kingdom – Microsoft and Google have entered into new power purchase agreements (PPAs) that will support renewable energy projects while also assisting the companies in reducing their carbon footprint.
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The Netherlands – Fugro has been given two contracts to do geotechnical research for the development of the offshore wind zones in the Dutch IJmuiden Ver Site V-VI, Nederwiek (zuid) Site I, and Hollandse Kust (west) Site VIII.
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The Netherlands – Dutch HSM Offshore Energy (HSM) has received a Contract Award for the first electrified ONE-Dyas N05-A gas production platform in the North Sea, which will be powered exclusively by offshore wind energy.
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The Netherlands – Offshore wind is unlikely to be profitable by 2030 under existing national policies and in the absence of a specific goal for industrial electrification. This is in accordance with a white paper released by impartial research organization TNO.
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Europe – Nearly all of Europe’s 30 GW of offshore wind farms are linked to the energy system via subsea power cables that go from each individual wind farm back to home nation. Many of them will connect to new “energy islands” in the not-too-distant future, centralizing the transmission of the energy they create.
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The Netherlands – ABP, the Netherlands’ largest pension fund, plans to make direct investments in large-scale wind energy generation and management in the North Sea. The Noordzeker collaboration was formed with this purpose in mind. IJmuiden Ver is the first offshore wind farm that Noordzeker will tender.
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