Sunday, 4 October 2026

Origin Energy is pulling out of the Skye Ridge Wind Farm immediately and will put its development work in the New England Renewable Energy Zone (REZ) behind the Northern Tablelands Wind Farm instead.

The company pointed to higher costs for building new wind generation, which it said weakened the argument for running two projects in the same region at once.

Skye Ridge, first called the Ruby Hills Wind Farm, had been mapped 10km west of Walcha at the southern end of the New England REZ. Early scoping outlined as much as 870 MW and 140 turbines.

NNPC New Energy Limited, 3D HighTech Systems and the Ogun-Oshun River Basin Development Authority (OORBDA) signed a memorandum of understanding on September 29 to implement a bioethanol production project in Lagos State, Nigeria, according to Ecofin Agency.

The plant would be built on a 200-hectare site in the Itokin area at an announced cost of EUR 256 million, about USD 290 million, Ecofin Agency reported.

To secure feedstock, OORBDA plans to make 15,000 hectares available for large-scale cassava cultivation across Lagos, Ogun, Osun and Oyo states, according to Ecofin Agency.

The plan would turn cassava into fuel for blending with petrol to cut import bills, with the plant sited at Itokin in Lagos State, Nigeria's commercial hub.

German companies are showing growing interest in Romania's energy sector, particularly solar and wind power, German Ambassador to Romania Angela Ganninger said at the launch conference of the third edition of the Code of Good Practice for Renewable Energy in Romania.

Greek companies have already built a substantial position in the same market. Investments by Greek companies in Romania's energy sector have exceeded EUR 5.5 billion, according to Greek Ambassador to Bucharest Evangelia Grammatika, who said the figure confirmed the significant presence of Greek enterprises in the Romanian energy market.