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Oil sands company Suncor Energy strengthens its focus on hydrogen and renewable fuels, divesting wind and solar

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Suncor also plans to divest its wind and solar assets. By doing so, we use our strengths, competitive advantages and resources to drive shareholder returns and value over the long term and help us meet our emissions reduction targets. —Mark Little, Suncor president and CEO.

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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 decision triggers investments of around NOK 2 billion (US$238 million), realizing a 60-70% cost reduction per MW from the Hywind demo project in Norway.

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NTNU study finds ships’ and spare parts’ contribution to offshore wind power lifecycle impacts has been underestimated

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Components: WT = wind turbine; Fnd = foundation; EC = electrical connections, including substation; Inst = installation; IOo = input-output, other; Mnt = Maintenance, excluding replacement parts; RP = replacement parts; EOL = end-of-life. ships and spare parts”—to the total life cycle impacts of offshore wind power.

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GE Energy Acquires ScanWind for Offshore Wind Sector Expansion

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ScanWind is a developer of advanced drive train and control wind turbine technologies aimed at offshore deployment. The ScanWind turbine technology will join GE’s family of wind turbines that includes the GE 1.5-megawatt megawatt series, the most widely deployed wind turbine in the world with more than 12,000 now in operation.

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Report: Renewable Marine Sources Could Provide Up To 50% of Europes Electricity by 2050

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Marine renewable energies include harnessing the power of offshore wind, waves, tides, and ocean currents as well as exploiting salinity and temperature gradients and using algae for biofuel production. —Lars Horn, Research Council of Norway and chair of the Marine Board.

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MIT study finds real-world NOx from diesels cars in Europe greatly exceeds laboratory levels; transboundary emissions cause 70% of health impacts

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Together, these groups represent more than 90% of the total number of diesel cars sold between 2000 and 2015, in 28 member states of the EU, along with Norway and Switzerland. Barrett says this transboundary effect may be due to the nature of NO x emissions. —Steven Barrett. Guillaume P. Eastham, Raymond L. Speth, Steven R.H.

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H2Carrier receives AiP from DNV for P2XFloater floating hydrogen and ammonia facility

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H2Carrier developed the P2XFloater concept in a close co-operation with leading maritime and process engineering companies in Norway, thus building on decades of experience and competence from the oil & gas sector, the marine industry and the offshore wind installation industry.

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