RWE Innogy invests into Swedish developer of innovative heat exchangers
* Equity holding of 20 percent in Airec AB, Sweden
* Investment through Innogy Renewables Technology Fund I
* New technology enables competitive efficiency gains for heat exchangers of up to 20 precent - for example in micro...
Successful appraisal well in RWE Dea’s Breagh field
RWE Dea UK is pleased to announce the successful drilling of the appraisal well 42/13a-6 in the Breagh Field located in the United Kingdom Southern North Sea. RWE Dea UK is operator of the Breagh field with a 70% interest, the...
Thyssengas divestiture completed
RWE AG today completed the divestiture of Thyssengas.
Foundation contract award for Gwynt y Môr Offshore Wind Farm.
RWE npower renewables has today announced the award of the contract to manufacture the wind turbine foundations for the 576MW Gwynt y Môr offshore wind farm, off the North Wales coast. The foundations are the steel structures...
RWE Innogy grows wind portfolio in Poland to 108 megawatts
* Two more wind farms in Poland commissioned
* Piecki and Tychowo meet annual electricity requirements of more than 62,000 residential households
RWE Symposium shows climate protection possible through intelligent use of carbon dioxide
How can CO2 become one of the raw materials of the future? The CO2 Symposium run by RWE in Duesseldorf on Tuesday was devoted to this topic. The international conference brought together over one hundred delegates from political,...
RWE issues the Group’s first hybrid bond
Yesterday, RWE issued a hybrid bond with a volume of €1.75 billion. This makes it the biggest euro hybrid bond ever issued in Europe by an industrial company. The bond met with keen interest from investors and was soon well...
Important progress in construction of Andasol 3 solar power plant: Turbine and generator installed
With the installation of the power generator another important construction phase of the Andasol 3 solar-thermal power plant has been completed. Together with the 50-megawatt (MW) steam turbine that weighs 160 tons, the some...
BYD and RWE conclude cooperation on e-mobility - European package deal for end-customers from 2012
BYD Europe B.V., of Rotterdam, the Netherlands, a subsidiary of the Chinese battery and car manufacturer BYD, is now co-operating with the Essen-based utility RWE in the fields of electric vehicles and charging facilities....
RWE takes electric car on a 4000-kilometre field test
RWE has given today the go-ahead for a new large-scale test of electro-mobility's fitness for everyday use. A team of young drivers will cover 4000 kilometres from Essen to Istanbul in a Tesla Roadster within 13 days. "In so...
RWE Dea Norge makes significant gas discovery offshore Norway
RWE Dea Norge is pleased to announce that the company has made a significant gas discovery near the Heidrun field in the Norwegian Sea.
RWE Innogy awards contract for offshore high-voltage cable to nkt cables GmbH
RWE Innogy and nkt cables GmbH have today signed a contract for the manufacture and delivery of high-voltage sea cable for the Welsh offshore wind farm “Gwynt y Môr”.
In total, nkt cables will produce around 83 kilometres of...
RWE Innogy inaugurates new Energy Centre in Berlin
The new Energy Centre of BTB GmbH, a subsidiary of RWE Innogy, will be inaugurated in Berlin today. The four combined heat & power units of the plant will in the future supply the prestigious Adlerhof Science Park with heat and...
RWE Innogy awards contract for offshore substation to Siemens
RWE Innogy and Siemens have today signed a contract for the supply of a substation for the "Nordsee Ost“ offshore wind farm. The contract covers the construction, delivery and commissioning of the substation out at sea, some 33...
RWE again listed on Dow Jones Sustainability Index
For the twelfth time in succession, RWE AG has qualified for inclusion in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI). The Group was selected for inclusion in both the worldwide “DJSI World” index as a utility and the European...
RWE Companius honoured by “Deutschland – Land der Ideen”
RWE named a “2010 Selected Landmark”: As part of the nationwide “365 Landmarks in the Land of Ideas” campaign, RWE Companius, the voluntary initiative created by the RWE Group, was awarded this distinction today. This campaign,...
Starting shot fired for work on RWE’s first own offshore installation ship
After successful completion of the detailed planning, construction has begun of RWE’s first own offshore installation ship with today’s steel cutting ceremony at the Korean shipyard of Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co....
RWE welcomes political decision on nuclear energy policy
The RWE Executive Board and the Group’s employees welcome the fact that the German government has agreed on the fundamentals for extending the operating life of nuclear power stations. Nuclear energy will now continue to play a...
RWE Innogy and German Pellets inaugurate the "Wittgenstein double"
RWE Innogy and German Pellets today officially inaugurated RWE's biomass-fuelled cogeneration station and the neighbouring pellet plant as part of a site presentation in the Wittgenstein industrial estate. NRW Pellets GmbH is the...
RWE Innogy awards contract for offshore sea cable to ABB
RWE Innogy and ABB have today signed a contract for delivery of underwater cable for the offshore wind farm “Nordsee Ost”. In total, ABB will supply around 63 kilometres of sea cable. They will be used to network the 48 wind...
Distribution system operators of RWE Rheinland Westfalen Netz paid around EUR 1 billion in feed-in tariffs in 2009
Figures for 2009 have shown that the distribution system operators of RWE Rheinland Westfalen Netz paid approximately EUR 1 billion in feed-in tariffs in accordance with the German Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG). Over two...
Solar power plant Andasol 3 : assembly of all parabolic trough collectors completed
The construction works for the joint solar thermal power plant Andasol 3 are on schedule. Now one important construction progress, the assembly of the parabolic trough collectors for the solar field of Andasol 3, has been...
RWE supports First European Energy Transparency Award
RWE sponsors the First European Energy Transparency Award launched, solely and independently managed by the Florence School of Regulation (FSR). RWE asks other companies to join this initiative as co-sponsors to help promoting...
RWE Innogy, Stadtwerke München and Siemens build offshore wind farm Gwynt y Môr
RWE Innogy, Stadtwerke München (SWM - Munich Municipal Utility) and Siemens have entered into a joint venture to build the offshore wind farm Gwynt y Môr (Welsh for “wind in the sea”). RWE Innogy will hold a 60% stake in this...
RWE Innogy commissions first wind farm in Italy
RWE Innogy commissioned the first onshore wind farm in Italy in the middle of June. The San Basilio wind farm is situated in Sardinia around 35 km north of the city of Cagliari.

