Author: Raul Assuncao
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UAE-Africa Wind Deal Shows Why DSA Structure Matters
Masdar’s Infinity Power just signed a PPA for a 1 GW wind project on Egypt’s Gulf of Suez coast — enough to power 1.2 million homes, part of a push toward 10 GW of renewables capacity by 2032.https://www.agbi.com/renewable-energy/2026/09/masdar-to-co-develop-1gw-wind-power-project-in-egypt/ What’s notable…
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Spain is now requiring data centres of 1 MW and above to source at least 80% of Renewables
Rules like this turn a soft ESG preference into a hard procurement requirement, and it changes how a Project Development Services Agreement gets written. An offtaker with a binding…
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210 MW.
While the market talks about Tâmega and Alto Minho, we’re bringing 210 MW of secured onshore wind capacity to the table — backed by a 300 MVA VPA grid connection that most developers can…
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Chinese wind OEMs in Europe
The FT has interviewed the European chief executive of one of China’s largest wind turbine manufacturers. His message: Europe is a long-haul commitment, and the company is hiring from…
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Portugal’s September Storage Auctions and the Bankability Gap
Portugal’s storage sector got sharper numbers this week: APREN confirms two competitive procedures land in September — up to 750 MVA for standalone battery storage, plus another 300 MVA for…
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Spain has quietly done something more consequential than any auction: it abolish
For two decades, demand-side access was firm or refused. Once the queue saturated, refusal became the default — and the permit itself became the traded asset. The numbers show how…
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EWEC and Masdar just signed a Collaboration Framework Agreement designed to stre
That’s a Gulf utility formalising, at scale, something advisors and developers have been doing deal-by-deal for years: structuring how a project moves from origination to bankability…
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300 MVA of firm grid capacity in northern Portugal.
Non-binding offers close on 21 August 2026. Nenuphar Advisors is running a competitive process on the VPA Cluster, a hybrid platform structured as three grid connection titles of 100 MVA…
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One production line, 15 GWh per year.
HiTHIUM has started production at its Heze Base in Shandong, described as the world’s first industrial park dedicated exclusively to long-duration energy storage (LDES): around 80 hectares,…
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Portugal moves from grid queue to capacity market
Portugal’s grid strategy is shifting from “first in the queue” to “first to prove you can be counted on.” DGEG’s latest security-of-supply monitoring flagged reliability risk across every…