A long-running legal battle between Mainstream Renewable Power and RSPB Scotland over the fate of the 450 megawatt Neart na Gaoithe Offshore Wind Farm has finally come to a close, with Scotland’s Supreme Court rejecting RSPB’s application to appeal a previous go-ahead decision. The story begins in July of 2016 …
Latin America’s fast-expanding renewables sector received a twin-boost this week as two leading developers announced they had secured funding for giant wind farm projects in Chile and Mexico. Mainstream Renewable Power announced yesterday that its Chilean joint venture Aela Energía has obtained $410m in project financing for two wind farms …
A £2bn offshore wind farm planned for the Scottish coast took a major step forward today, after courts rejected a request from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) to take an appeal against the plans to the Supreme Court. In the latest twist to the long-running legal …
Seven months after it was first proposed the massive 800 megawatt Vietnamese Phu Cuong Wind Farm has been officially formalized under a $2 billion Joint Development Agreement between GE Renewable Energy, Mainstream Renewable Power, and local Vietnamese partner, the Phu Cuong Group. GE Renewable Energy announced on the last day …
A legal ruling in Scotland has given second life to as much as 2.3 gigawatts worth of offshore wind farms that had previously been halted due to concerns over their impact on migratory seabirds. Back in July a judge in the Outer Court of Session in Scotland revoked consent for …
The first commercial offshore wind farm to make use of the next generation of giant 8MW turbines will be officially inaugurated later today at a ceremony to mark the official opening of the Burbo Bank Extension project in Liverpool Bay. The 258MW project has been developed by DONG Energy, which …
