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Renewable Energy

Renewable energy is energy that is collected from renewable resources that are naturally replenished on a human timescale. It includes sources such as solar, wind, hydro and geothermal. For ports, this includes the installation of solar and wind on- and offshore) projects to produce their own energy. This will help meets the European Union’s targets in its Renewable Energy Directive. Solar energy plays a key role in the clean energy transition. It will contribute to reaching the objectives of the REPowerEU plan and reduce the EU’s dependence on fossil fuels.

Navantia to develop wind concession in Port of Ferrol

Ferrol, Spain (Ports Europe) May 17, 2024 – The Port Authority of Ferrol-San Cibrao has approved the non-substantial modification of the concession owned...

French startup Carbon plans Marseille solar plant

Marseille, France (Ports Europe) May 16, 2024 – French startup Carbon plans to inaugurate the first part of a solar module production facility in autumn...

Port of Castellon to join the offshore wind club

Castellón, Spain (Ports Europe) May 15, 2024 – The Port of Castellón has said that the public invitation for companies interested in developing...

Constanta port could benefit from new offshore wind energy law

Constanta, Romania (Ports Europe) May 14, 2024 – The Romanian parliament has adopted the country’s first offshore wind energy law. The Port of...

Port of Tarragona wants to join wind energy industry

Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) May 13, 2024 – The Port of Tarragona is entering the race to position itself as a hub for assembling offshore wind...

Ports and shipping to work together on energy transition

Singapore (Ports Europe) May 10, 2024 – The ports and shipping industries need urgently to work together on the energy transition or risk a mismatch in...

Port of Alicante plans solar power installations

Alicante, Spain (Ports Europe) May 8, 2024 – The Alicante Port Authority is planning new solar power installations to cover a large part of the current...

Port of Taranto identifies areas to develop wind energy

Taranto, Italy (Ports Europe) May 7, 2024 – The Management Committee of the Ionian Sea Port System Authority held an extraordinary meeting on May 3 to...

Port of Aveiro is national leader in transporting wind blades

Aveiro, Portugal (Ports Europe) May 3, 2024 – On April 12, the ship BBC Livorno left the Port of Aveiro, loaded with 15 wind energy blades, bound for...

Valenciaport runs pilot test for RENEWPORT

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) May 3, 2024 – The Port of Valencia is running a pilot test for the RENEWPORT project to develop renewable energy. The...

Port of Koper has launched a new 3.3 MW solar power plant

Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) April 24, 2024 – The Port of Koper has launched a new 3.3 MW solar power plant with 15,000 m² of panels, the tenth such...

Kailia floating offshore wind project, Puglia: EIA submitted

Taranto, Italy (Ports Europe) April 22, 2024 – Last month, Renantis and BlueFloat Energy submitted the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) process for...

Port of Vigo continues on its path to improve energy efficiency

Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) April 22, 2024 – The Port of Vigo continues improving its energy efficiency. After renewing ISO 14001 (environment), ISO 9001...

How green methanol fits into the maritime sector?

Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) April 20, 2024 – Yesterday, Ports Europe reported that Spanish energy company Cepsa has signed an agreement with Evos,...

Cepsa sends green methanol to Evos in Algeciras & Rotterdam

Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) April 19, 2024 – Spanish energy company Cepsa has signed an agreement with Evos, a leading liquid energy and chemical...

Rome seeks port interest in offshore wind power development

Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) April 18, 2024 – The Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security has requested expressions of interest from the port...

Petronor to work with Gaslog & EnBW

Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) April 18, 2024 – Repsol’s Petronor has signed a cooperation agreement with the Port of Amsterdam, the Dutch gas...

Príncipe Felipe Pier solar facility now 100% operational – Valencia

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) April 18, 2024 – The solar installation at the Príncipe Felipe Pier is now 100% operational. It now provides an average...

Port of Sete to house Nezzy2, a floating wind turbine prototype

Sète, France (Ports Europe) April 17, 2024 – Oenewable energy manufacturer Valeco has given the University of Montpellier a 1:10-scale prototype of a...

MOL inaugurates green hydrogen plant on the Danube River

Budapest, Hungary (Ports Europe) April 16, 2024 – The MOL Group has inaugurated a 10-megawatt capacity green hydrogen plant in Százhalombatta, the...

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