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Statoil to build the world’s first floating wind farm: Hywind Scotland

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Statoil has made the final investment decision to build the world’s first floating wind farm: The Hywind pilot park offshore Peterhead in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The wind farm will power around 20,000 households. Production start is expected in late 2017. Statoil is proud to develop the world’s first floating wind farm.

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Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners acquires majority stake in blue ammonia project in the Gulf Coast

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Located along the Gulf Coast, the project has commenced detailed engineering (FEED) and will initially consist of two phases, each with a production capacity of 4,000 tons per day (~3.0 million tons of annual production from both phases) once operational in 2027. million tons of CO 2 per year.

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Honda Transmission contracts with Juhl Wind for two utility-scale wind turbines at Ohio plant; up to 10% of electricity for operations

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announced an agreement with Juhl Wind , Inc. to develop, install, and operate two utility-scale wind turbines (each rated at about 2MW) to generate electricity for the plant’s operations. The two wind turbines will supply up to approximately 10% of the plant’s electricity. Honda Transmission Mfg. of America, Inc.

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MAN Energy Solutions wins pre-engineering contract for methanation reactor in Power-to-X Plant

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The plant, with a total input capacity of 200 MW, will be built in Kristinestad, Finland for the production of green hydrogen and synthetic natural gas (SNG). Back in 2012, we commissioned the methanation reactor for what was, at that time, Europe’s largest power-to-gas plant with 6 MW in Werlte, Germany. Earlier post.)

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Mercedes-Benz begins production of two A-class PHEV models at Rastatt plant

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Mercedes-Benz Cars has begun production of the first Mercedes-Benz compact vehicles with plug-in hybrid drive ( earlier post ) at the Mercedes-Benz Rastatt plant in southern Germany. The production launch of the Mercedes-Benz A-class in two plug-in hybrid models is a strategic milestone as part of our global electric initiative.

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S&P Global: More than 75% of oil and gas production in US Gulf of Mexico has lower than average greenhouse gas intensity

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More than three-fourths of all oil and gas production in the US Gulf of Mexico has a lower greenhouse gas (GHG) intensity than the basin-wide average, according to a new S&P Global Commodity Insights analysis. However, about 78% of the total production was found to be beneath that average. 900 kgCO 2 e/boe. 70 kgCO 2 e/boe.)

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Report: Hitachi Chemical to quadruple output of large lithium-ion batteries for wind and solar

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will more than quadruple production capacity for large lithium ion batteries (LIBs) for solar and wind power generation. In October 2012, the development group of Hitachi Chemical’s Tsukuba Research Laboratory and the LIB equipment development group of Shin-Kobe Electric Machinery Co., The company will spend ¥2.2