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EDP Renovaveis Expects Core Recurring Profit in 2025

May 08, 2025

EDP Renovaveis, the world's fourth largest wind energy producer, said on Thursday it expects core recurring profit to grow 13% in 2025 on the back of a solid operational performance, despite a 24% drop in net income in the first quarter.The…

Galp Reports 29% Profit Fall

Apr 28, 2025

Portugal's Galp Energia reported a 29% drop in adjusted first-quarter core profit on Monday, hit by falling oil output and a decline in refining margins to less than half the levels booked a year ago.Adjusted earnings before interest, taxes…

Gazelle Gets Clearance for Floating Wind Demonstrator off Portugal

Apr 11, 2025

Gazelle Wind Power, a Dublin-based floating wind developer, has secured a 10-year TUPEM (Titulo de Utilizacao Privativa do Espaco Marítimo) authorization, clearing the way for the deployment of its 2 MW Nau Azul floating wind demonstrator project off Portugal…

Liebherr Equips Agogo FPSO with Two Offshore Cranes

Apr 04, 2025

Crane specialist Liebherr has supplied two offshore cranes to Yinson Production, which will support the operations of Agogo floating production storage and offloading unit (FPSO) at Azule Energy’s field offshore Angola.Two offshore cranes of…

CorPower Ocean, NTNU Join Forces for AI-Based Wave Energy Project

Mar 18, 2025

CorPower Ocean has secured financial backing from Vinnova, Sweden’s national innovation agency, for a project exploring the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) for improved performance and control in wave energy technology.The WACE project…

Eco Wave Power Starts Infrastructure Preps for Portuguese 1MW Wave Project

Feb 28, 2025

Eco Wave Power has started critical infrastructure enhancements for its planned 1MW wave energy project in the city of Porto in Portugal.The Porto project, Eco Wave Power's first MW-scale wave energy venture in the country, is expected to be finalized during 2026…

European firms exposed as Trump targets US offshore wind

Jan 21, 2025

U.S. President Donald Trump in his first day of office on Monday suspended new federal offshore wind leasing pending an environmental and economic review, saying wind mills are ugly, expensive and harm wildlife.Former President Joe Biden supported the offshore wind industry…

Israeli Firm Hires Assistance to Advance Portuguese Wave Energy Project

Jan 13, 2025

Eco Wave Power has engaged Portuguese engineering firm MOQ Engineering to perform the final design and load calculations for its wave energy project in Portugal’s city of Porto.The collaboration with MOQ will focus on delivering the final civil…

Portugal Selects Four Offshore Wind Farm Sites Ahead of Auction

Jan 10, 2025

Portugal's government has approved four areas in the Atlantic Ocean where offshore wind farms can be installed, moving a step closer to launching the first licensing auction of offshore capacity, which it plans this year.Two of the areas are off the coast of Viana do Castelo in northern Portugal…

Galp Launches Investigation Into Alleged CEO's Conflict of Interests

Jan 06, 2025

Portuguese oil company Galp Energia is investigating an anonymous complaint about an alleged personal relationship between Chief Executive Filipe Silva and a company manager, economic website ECO reported on Saturday.Galp's ethics committee…

Portugal Ushers in Floating Wind Era

Dec 16, 2024

Portugal is beckoning a new era for offshore wind after officially signing ‘rules of procedure’ for a new Technological Free Zone located off the coast of Viana do Castelo.The news was announced during an international conference in Lisbon promoting…

Iberdrola Gets Portugese Nod for Wind Farm Start

Dec 09, 2024

Iberdrola has received a production license from the Portuguese Directorate-General for Energy and Geology of Portugal (DGEG), taking another step towards the construction of the largest wind farm in Portugal.Located in the districts of Vila Real and Braga…

Israeli Firm Launches Middle East’s First Grid-Connected Wave Energy Plant

Dec 09, 2024

Eco Wave Power has officially switched on wave energy power plant, developed in collaboration with EDF Renewables IL, at Tel Aviv’s Port of Jaffa.The EWP-EDF One project has 100 kW installed capacity and is comprised of 10 wave energy floaters…

Principle Power to Remain on O&M Duty for WindFloat Atlantic Project

Dec 03, 2024

Ocean Winds has extended its long-term operations and maintenance (O&M) contract with Principle Power for the 25 MW WindFloat Atlantic Project, the world’s first semi-submersible floating wind farm, located offshore Portugal.Since the project’s first WindFloat unit was installed in 2019…

CorPower Teams Up with SwitchH2 for Wave Powered Green Ammonia Project

Dec 02, 2024

Swedish wave energy company CorPower Ocean has partnered with SwitchH2, offshore floating production systems developer for the delivery of green hydrogen and green ammonia, to deliver industrial-scale floating green ammonia production facility partially powered by wave energy…

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