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Northland, Gentari and Mitsui have completed a €1.48bn (NT$55bn) incremental financing package to support the under-construction 1GW Hai Long offshore wind project off Taiwan.

TenneT is preparing the Dutch electricity system for a solar eclipse on 12 August that could cause solar generation to fall by up to 1.3GW.

Envision Energy has secured a 200-megawatt (MW) wind project from REE Energy in Vietnam, its largest wind project in the country and biggest overseas nearshore wind project.

TotalEnergies has signed an agreement to acquire Shell’s onshore renewables business in Europe. The transaction includes 500 MW of solar and wind assets in operation or under construction, mainly in Italy and the Netherlands, together with a 3.5 GW pipeline of solar, wind and battery storage projects in Italy, the United Kingdom and Spain.

Denmark-based Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has reached financial close and started construction on its La Esperanza Solar project in Mexico, the first in a new wave of renewable energy developments in the country to achieve the milestone.

The US government has reached an agreement to pay RWE $1.22bn to vacate a trio of offshore wind leases off the coasts of New York, California, and Louisiana.

Plans for a potentially massive new wind farm in Tasmania have started the process of federal environmental assessment, seeking approval to install up to 280 turbines in the island state’s North West renewable energy zone.

Victoria’s newly appointed energy minister, Jaclyn Symes, says the state is going ahead as planned with the launch of Australia’s first ever offshore wind auction, and keeping it on the calendar for sometime this month.

The Nordex Group has secured three orders in the United States with a combined capacity of more than 480MW.

Vattenfall has won contracts to build the 1GW Nordsøen Midt (North Sea 1 Mid) and 800MW Hesselø offshore wind farms in Denmark.