Who Are the Players in the Sustainable Energy Market and What Are They Doing?

Who are the players in the sustainable energy market and what are they doing?

The energy sector has a crucial role to play in facilitating the transition to a low carbon economy, ensuring that future generations enjoy access to secure and sustainable energy.

- The Sustainable Energy Association is a member based industry body offering innovative policy solutions that link up building-level technologies and the wider energy system to achieve a low carbon, secure energy future for the UK, benefits for UK consumers, and commercial growth for businesses working in the sector.

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1.)    Iberdrola

The focus on the development of clean energy and respect for the environment are some of the pillars of Iberdrola, a renewable energy pioneer based in Spain with the largest renewable asset base of any company in the world.

In the next two years, the company expects to bring 1,450 megawatts (MW) of new capacity on stream through offshore wind farms including West of Duddon Sands, which is due to begin operations in 2014, and at least 10 onshore installations in Brazil to add to the Rio do Fogo wind farm that is already operational.

The company has 2.4 GW in hydro generation projects under way in Brazil: the Teles Pires plant, through Neoenergia, whose 900 MW is projected to come on stream in 2014, and Baixo Iguaçu and Belo Monte plants amounting to 1,500 MW which will start up between 2015 and 2016.

2.)    Calpine Corp.

The U.S. power company Calpine is capable of delivering nearly 27,500 megawatts of clean, cost-effective, reliable and fuel-efficient electricity to customers and communities in 20 U.S. states and Canada. The company owns, leases, and operates integrated systems of fuel-efficient natural gas-fired and renewable geothermal power plants.

The Geysers, a massive geothermal site in Northern California, accounts for one-fourth of the [non-hydro] green power produced in California and in 2012 its average load was 696.1 net megawatts. Calpine also helped develop the Lake County-Southeast Geysers Effluent Pipeline project, which was the first wastewater-to-electricity project in the world. This 29-mile underground pipeline delivers eight million gallons of reclaimed water to The Geysers every day.

3.)    China Yangtze Power

The Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River in China is a hydroelectric dam that is the world's largest power station in terms of installed capacity (22,500 MW). Power generation is managed by China Yangtze Power, a listed subsidiary of China Three Gorges Corp. (CTGC) — a Central Enterprise SOE administered by state-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council.

The dam, made of concrete and steel, is the largest hydroelectric power station on the planet with 34 generators: 32 main generators, each with a capacity of 700 MW, and two plant power generators, each with capacity of 50 MW. It is 2,335 meters (7,661 feet) long and the top of the dam is 185 meters (607 feet) above sea level.

4.)    Siemens

Siemens Wind Power, with headquarters in Hamburg, Germany, has a 6.3 percent share of the world’s wind power generation. From the outset, Siemens has played a key role in founding the offshore wind industry, having installed the world’s first offshore wind farm in Vindeby, Denmark, in 1991.

Since then, Siemens has supplied the world’s largest offshore projects. For several years, the 165 MW Nysted offshore wind farm held the record as the largest offshore project. In 2009, that record was broken by the 200 MW Horns Rev II project. The 500 MW Greater Gabbard Project raised the bar again. And the world’s first 1 GW project, London Array, represents yet another step toward large-scale, green energy supply.

- Statoil Energy Ventures announces today that it has invested USD 3 million in United Wind, the leading provider of distributed wind energy leasing solutions. This is the first investment by Statoil Energy Ventures: Statoil’s new USD 200 million venture capital fund dedicated to investing in attractive and ambitious growth companies in renewable energy, supporting its strategy of growth in new energy solutions.