onshore wind

The trading arm of UK utility SSE has entered into a two-year power purchase agreement (PPA) for the Aikengall I onshore wind farm in East Lothian, Scotland with UK specialist CWP Energy.

Sainsbury’s has signed a 15-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with global asset management firm Capital Dynamics for 100% of the energy generated at its newly operational Pines Burn Wind Farm.

Energy market consultancy Cornwall Insight says the provisional results from the Irish Renewable Energy Support Scheme (RESS) show “good progress” but the country’s 2030 electricity decarbonisation target will still be missed.

A new report has revealed that the onshore wind pipeline is picking up pace, growing twice as fast in the past 12 months than in the previous.

The completion of the Viking Wind Farm, developed by SSE Renewables, and of a 260km subsea transmission link installed by SSEN Transmission means the Shetland Islands are now connected to the Great British electricity grid.

The total operational capacity of combined onshore and offshore wind in the UK has now exceeded 30GW.

RES has submitted its nine-Turbine Killean Wind Farm proposal, pledging economic growth and carbon payback within two years.

Renewable energy developer Statkraft has announced plans to redesign its proposed Mossy Hill Wind farm on Shetland, Scotland.

A 49MW wind project by Energia Group, an Irish energy utility, has reached commercial operations under a strategic framework agreement with technology company Microsoft.

Forecasting by energy market consultancy Cornwall Insight suggests that Ireland and Northern Ireland will miss the goal of generating 80% of their electricity from renewable sources by 2030.