NEWS

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Arcalis & PFAN

29-Jul-2024

Arcalis Energy is pleased to announce that our project “Building Energy Security” has been formally inducted into the project pipeline of the CFDA's Caribbean Climate Investment Program (CCIP) Project Preparation Facility, executed by the Private Financing Advisory Network in Latin America and the Caribbean (PFAN-LAC).

This provides Arcalis Energy with the opportunity to engage significant private equity investment and advance the Arcalis Business plan. For more details, please consult the PFAN website or contact Arcalis Energy via the Contact Us page (an NDA will be required).

Reuters

Biden administration approves eighth US offshore wind project

Valerie Volcovici, 2-Apr-2024

2.6GW of energy (9.1GWh / year, capacity factor 40%) will be enabled by the 8th commercial-scale offshore wind project - New England Wind - off the coast of Massachusetts, providing power to more than 900,000 homes.

With this approval, the Wind Energy industry has truly restarted in the USA. 

Euronews

Marie Lecoq, 08-Feb-2024

Wind energy: How are EU countries contributing to the 2030 targets?

Compared to solar panels, wind turbines emit less CO2 into the atmosphere, consume less energy, and produce more energy overall.

In fact, one wind turbine can generate the same amount of electricity per kWh as approximately 48,704 solar panels.

This is in part because solar panels stop producing at night.

“Solar PV has an average capacity factor [i.e. an average output] of 20%, even in Spain or Italy, because at night there is nothing, so you discount all that”.

Euronews

Lotte Limb, 07-Feb-2024

"Unprecedented collapse" in EU coal and gas electricity

More of Europe’s electricity came from wind power than fossil gas for the first time ever last year.

Wind (18%) and solar (9%) produced a record 27 per cent of the bloc’s electricity in 2023 - above a quarter for the first time. Coal and gas took a corresponding nosedive, with the former falling to its lowest ever level at just 12 per cent of the EU’s electricity generation.

Euronews

Ruth Wright, 06-Feb-2024

Stronger hurricanes are here but would a new category keep people safer?

Scientists say category-6 is needed to account for the strength of climate change-induced hurricanes. Since 2013, five storms - all in the Pacific - had winds of 308 kph or higher that would have put them in the new category, with two hitting the Philippines. 

"...as temperatures rise, the number of days with conditions ripe for potential Category 6 storms in the Gulf of Mexico will grow. Now it's about 10 days a year where the environment could be right for a Category 6, but that could go up to a month if the globe heats to 3 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. That would make an Atlantic Category 6 much more likely."

Sarah Griffiths, BBC Future, 28-Jun-2023

The real story behind the Atlantic's record-breaking seaweed blobs

The world's biggest bloom of sargassum in the Atlantic Ocean is filled with plastic and bacteria that live on it – they could be the secret behind the seaweed's success.