Solar power

Group Press Releases

• Alstom’s orders, during the third quarter of 2011/12, remained sound whilst sales are gradually recovering

  19/01/2012

  Over the third quarter 2011/12 (from 1 October to 31 December 2011), Alstom registered orders of €4.9 billion, confirming the sustained commercial activity of the past four quarters.

• Alstom and SSE Renewables create joint venture to co-develop world's largest wave farm off the coast of Orkney, Scotland

  17/01/2012

  Alstom and the leading Scottish marine developer SSE Renewables have signed a new joint venture agreement to develop the Costa Head Wave Project, an up to 200 Megawatts (MW) wave energy site located north of mainland Orkney, in The Crown Estate’s Pentland Firth and Orkney Waters Strategic Area.

• Alstom will supply the signalling system of the Albacete-Alicante high speed line in Spain

  11/01/2012

  Adif, the Spanish railway infrastructure manager, has awarded a contract globally worth around €280 million to the Alstom-led consortium to build and maintain for a period of 20 years the signalling and telecommunications systems for the high speed line Albacete-Alicante.

• EDF Energies Nouvelles and Alstom announce the submission of four projects forming the basis for a sustainable French wind energy equipment manufacturing industry

  11/01/2012

  EDF Energies Nouvelles has today on behalf of a consortium consisting of strategic partners submitted four robust and realistic projects in response to the French offshore wind energy call for tenders.

• Alstom wins HVDC contract worth around €240 million in Sweden

  02/01/2012

  Alstom Grid has been awarded a contract worth approximately €240 million by the Swedish utility Svenska Kraftnät for the 1440 MW South-West Link. The project will connect Barkeryd in central Sweden to Hurva in southern Sweden, using High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) technology.

• Alstom signs a new €1.35 billion syndicated revolving credit facility

  16/12/2011

  On 16 December, Alstom signed with 18 international banks a €1.35 billion syndicated revolving credit facility with a 5 year maturity to refinance an existing undrawn €1 billion facility.

• Contract worth around €350 million for Alstom in the UK

  15/12/2011

  Nottingham City Council has awarded on 15 December a €680 million (£570 million) contract to the Tramlink Nottingham consortium to construct and operate two new tram lines, expanding the existing network by 17.5 km.

• Alstom to strengthen Iraq’s electricity network with a 728 MW gas-fired power plant

  11/12/2011

  Patrick Kron, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Alstom, and the Iraqi Vice Minister of Electricity, His Excellency Salam Kazzaz, signed on 11 December, in the presence of His Excellency Karim Aftan El Jumaily, Minister of Electricity, a contract worth approximately €400 million to build the 728 MW Al Mansuriya gas-fired power plant in the Diyala Governorate, northeast of Baghdad.

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  Alstom to supply the boiler and turbine hall for a new highly efficient 900 MW coal-fired power plant in Poland

  05/12/2011

  Alstom has been awarded a contract worth approximately €900 million by Elektrownia Rybnik S.A. (ERSA) to supply the core power generation equipment for a new 900 MW coal-fired power plant to be built at the Rybnik site in Poland

• Chair in Clean Energy Systems launched at Wits University in Johannesburg

  01/12/2011

  The Alstom Chair in Clean Energy Systems Technology (ACCEST) was inaugurated today at the University of the Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg, South Africa through a partnership, which will see Alstom investing over ZAR 17 million in various projects at the University between 2009 and 2016.