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Renewables

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30/4/2025 News

European renewable PPA market sees 19 GW of new capacity contracted in 2024

The European renewable energy power purchase agreement (PPA) market demonstrated strong recovery in 2024, with nearly 19 GW of new capacity contracted, according to a new report.

Floating offshore wind

Computer generated image of new offshore floating wind installation method in action

30/4/2025 News

Faster, cheaper installation method and new foundation designs seek to boost floating wind scalability

Heerema Marine Contractors has developed a new offshore floating wind installation method that it claims will ‘upscale commercialisation’ of the sector. Meanwhile, Aker Solutions has introduced three new floating wind foundation designs that aim to maximise energy production, simplify construction and reduce maintenance.

Carbon markets

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30/4/2025 News

India’s new carbon market methodologies define offset landscape

India’s recent approval of eight methodologies for its domestic voluntary carbon market is set to revitalise the national carbon offset landscape, according to a new report. Meanwhile, the UK government has begun a consultation on its guidelines for how businesses can utilise carbon credits to deliver climate strategies.

Carbon capture and storage

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30/4/2025 Feature / Benjamin Sovacool

Research update on.... policy and governance

The energy transition is not only about technological innovation; the ways in which public policy incentivises and regulates decarbonisation initiatives bear greatly upon society, writes Benjamin Sovacool, Professor of Energy Policy, University of Sussex. Below is an edited and abridged synthesis of UK research on these topics commissioned by the UK Industrial Decarbonisation Research and Innovation Centre (IDRIC) over the last few years.

Health and safety

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23/4/2025 Feature / Will Dalrymple

The right way, and the wrong way, to deal with near misses

If industrial accidents were a scientific experiment, near misses would be the control case. They can offer useful insights, but also impose challenges of their own. New Energy World Senior Editor Will Dalrymple speaks with four health and safety experts to provide a guide to near misses, as interpreted by the Tripod Lite accident investigation methodology.

Renewables

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23/4/2025 Comment / Keith Burns,Greg Dudziak

The evolution of renewable energy: three decades of innovation and growth

The growth of modern renewable energy based on the sun and wind around the world is simply one of the greatest success stories of our time, from modest beginnings in the 1990s to its mainstream, and still growing, role today. Here, Keith Burns, Commercial Director and Greg Dudziak, European Director of Advisory at global renewables consultancy and service provider Natural Power – itself 30 years old – tell the story.

Wind

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23/4/2025 Comment / Emma McIvor

Shining a Spotlight on Energy People: Emma McIvor AMEI

An early interest in the environment has propelled Emma McIvor to work at the Energy Institute as a Technical Manager. She explains how her membership of the Energy Institute supports and facilitates her work for wind power organisation SafetyOn.

Net zero / decarbonisation / energy transition

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23/4/2025 Feature / Brian Davis

Asian action: a diverse picture of energy transition activity

Asia is a very large and diverse part of the world. At International Energy Week in February, a distinguished panel moderated by Mark Gainsborough FEI, Chairman of Seatrium, discussed the manifold challenges and opportunities of the energy transition for Asia, with regions both energy rich and energy poor working towards decarbonisation, new infrastructure and technology innovation. New Energy World Features Editor Brian Davis reports.

Solar

23/4/2025 News

First large-scale hybrid solar generation and BESS storage project launched in Western Australia

Western Australia’s new Cunderdin hybrid PV solar + BESS (battery energy storage system) project was launched this month, providing four hours of constant supply at peak demand daily and driving the country’s decarbonisation strategy by displacing non-renewable generation.

Wind

23/4/2025 News

Good news for wind in UK and Japan, but US uncertainty cuts growth forecasts

While a major onshore wind farm has started up in Japan, and an offshore wind farm has been permitted in the UK, the uncertainty surrounding wind power in the US is affecting growth projections there, as the wind trade body for Europe complains about high prices.

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European renewable PPA market sees 19 GW of new capacity contracted in 2024

Faster, cheaper installation method and new foundation designs seek to boost floating wind scalability

India’s new carbon market methodologies define offset landscape

Research update on.... policy and governance

The right way, and the wrong way, to deal with near misses

The evolution of renewable energy: three decades of innovation and growth

Shining a Spotlight on Energy People: Emma McIvor AMEI

Asian action: a diverse picture of energy transition activity

First large-scale hybrid solar generation and BESS storage project launched in Western Australia

Good news for wind in UK and Japan, but US uncertainty cuts growth forecasts