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Lamprell inks USD 200+ mn Scottish wind farm contract: UAE-headquartered energy construction firm Lamprell has signed a contract worth more than USD 200 mn to supply turbine components to Scotland’s Moray West offshore wind farm, it said in a statement (pdf) on Thursday. Lamprell will provide 60 wind turbine generator transition pieces — reinforced parts […]
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A massive desert reclamation effort in Morocco
Morocco’s Agriculture Ministry issued a tender for a MAD 2.5 bn (USD 233 mn) wind-powered desalination plant in the Wadi Al Dahab province in the far south of the country, according to a ministry statement on Friday. The project is part of a wider desert reclamation project that would help irrigate 5.2k hectares of land. […]
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Scatec and Fortescue study 12.2 GW worth of projects in Egypt:
Scatec and Fortescue are kicking the tires on 12.2 GW worth of projects in Egypt: Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El Sisi discussed potential 12.2 GW of clean energy projects with Norwegian renewable energy provider Scatec and Australian green energy provider Fortescue Future Industries (FFI), according to two statements (here and here). Scatec is looking at […]
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OCI starts building large-scale blue ammonia plant in US
Our friends at OCI have kicked off the construction of a blue ammonia facility in Texas with an annual capacity of 1.1 mn tonnes, the company said in a statement (pdf) on Thursday. The company expects to double its production by 1Q2025. The facility’s location in the US Gulf will facilitate exports of clean ammonia […]
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Sailing from France to Morocco might have got a bit more environmentally friendly
The world’s first close-to-zero-emissions ferry, French company La Méridionale’s Piana, launched in Marseille last week, Euronews reports. The ferry’s engines have been equipped with particle filters that cut air pollution, capturing 99% of sulfur oxides and eliminating 99.9% of fine and ultrafine particles — the most dangerous for human health — in what’s being hailed […]
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SEPTEMBER 13-14 September in Juba, South Sudan Oil & Power Conference, Juba, South Sudan, Venue TBA. 15 September (Thursday) UN’s Arab Regional Forum on Climate Finance, United Nations House in Beirut, Lebanon. 20 September (Tuesday) UN Regional Economic Committee for Europe, Geneva, Switzerland. 27-29 September (Tuesday-Thursday): WETEX & Dubai Solar Show, UAE. 28-29 September (Wednesday-Thursday): […]
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TODAY: Egypt-ICF kicks off + World Bank exceeds climate funding target
Good morning from Egypt, where some of the heavy hitters in global finance and climate policy are attending in one of the first major international gatherings in the lead up to COP27. THE BIG CLIMATE STORY- The Egypt-International Cooperation Forum (Egypt-ICF) kicked off with a bang yesterday, with the star of the show being the […]
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ICF kicked off with a bank … sorry … bang
Egypt could land funding worth up to USD 1.3 bn from the EBRD: The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is ready to provide as much as USD 1.3 bn in funding to support clean energy projects in Egypt, President Odile Renaud-Basso said yesterday. Renaud-Basso pledged to invest USD 1 bn in renewable energy […]
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UAE will tightens air pollution regs — indoors and out
SMART POLICY- The UAE’s Ministry of Climate Change and Environment launched a program to improve air quality though 2031 at a gathering in Dubai yesterday. The agenda aims to set national standards that will curb air pollution — and will set up a compliance monitoring scheme to track the carbon emissions and pollutants in the […]