Magnetar Acquires Solarcentury’s 71-MW Portfolio of Projects
U.K-based Magnetar Solar has purchased Solarcentury’s 71-megawatt pipeline of solar photovoltaic projects, and has selected Solarcentury to build an additional 40MW of projects.
U.K-based Magnetar Solar has purchased Solarcentury’s 71-megawatt pipeline of solar photovoltaic projects, and has selected Solarcentury to build an additional 40MW of projects.
Canadian Solar Inc. has signed an agreement to acquire project developer Recurrent Energy from Sharp Corp. for US$265 million.
U.K.-based fuel distributor Greenergy has acquired Harvest Biofuels’ biodiesel manufacturing facility at Seal Sands on Teesside, England.
Babcock & Wilcox Volund has been awarded contracts by Margam Green Energy Ltd. worth more than US$200 million to engineer, procure and operate a 40-megawatt biomass power plant in Margam, Wales.
EDF Energies Nouvelles has commissioned the 61.5-megawatts Grassridge wind farm in South Africa, developed by its subsidiary InnoWind.
Renewable Energy technology company Fenix International has secured US$12.6 million in a funding round to help fund the development if its mobile-enabled solar systems to off-grid African communities.
Glennmont Partners has completed the purchase of a 40-megawatt biomass power plant from ECO2 Ltd. in a GBP 160-million (US$121 million) deal.
Sweden’s state-owned electricity generating company Vattenfall has started operating the first phase of an onshore wind farm Clashindarroch in Scotland.
India’s Suzlon Group has signed an agreement to sell its entire 100% stake its German wind-turbine making subsidiary to Centerbridge Partners LP for EUR 1 billion (US$1.14 billion).
The European Union has given its approval for MGT Power to convert its coal-fired power plant into a biomass unit using wood pellets.
Spanish renewable energy Abengoa has won a contract to develop a large-scale desalination plant to be powered by solar energy in Saudi Arabia.