March 8 NEC Energy News
¶ “Freja Clears Hurdle For 2.5-GW Offshore Wind Farm” • Freja Offshore got a key permit for its proposed 2500-MW Mareld offshore wind farm in Sweden. The County Administrative Board of Västra Götaland granted a Natura 2000 permit for the project. Freja Offshore is a joint venture between Hexicon and Mainstream Renewable Power. [reNews]
¶ “Chernobyl: Emergency Work Completed After Drone Strike On Shelter” • The State Emergency Service of Ukraine said work to fight smouldering fires in the insulation layers of Chernobyl’s giant shelter is complete, three weeks after it was struck by a drone. The International Atomic Energy Agency says radiation levels remained normal. [World Nuclear News]
¶ “Churches In Louisiana Installing Solar + Storage As Hurricane Prep” • A coalition named Together New Orleans that includes about fifty churches as well as a number of other community institutions is developing a network of ten solar-plus-storage centers around New Orleans. The coalition is actually calling these hubs “lighthouses.” [CleanTechnica]
¶ “Data, Waves, And Wind To Be Counted In Economies” • Wind and wave power are to be included in measuring countries’ economies, in changes approved by the UN in the first update since 2008. Assets like oilfields were already factored in. This update aims to capture areas that have grown since then, such as the cost of using up natural resources. [BBC]
¶ “Trump’s Tariffs And New State Regulation Could Increase Power Costs In Texas” • The low costs of developing renewable energy allowed Texas to lead the US in clean energy deployment. But the cost of doing business with new tariffs and rules may stall the industry’s ability to churn out the cheap power, according to developers and experts. [Inside Climate News]
¶ “Offshore Wind Turbines Promise More Power” • Wind turbines located in the deep ocean off US shores could one day generate as much as 2.8 terawatts of energy. That amount is triple what the country needs to supply all of its current electric power needs, according to the US DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory. [ACMA]
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