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Companies, Spanish economy 28th March 2023

Iberdrola to lead green hydrogen consortium, Atmosphere

Alphavalue / Divacons | The Spanish utility has announced that it will lead the ‘Atmosphere’ consortium, a project that will integrate different companies to innovate in new technologies that can be applied to the critical equipment of green hydrogen generation plants, thus covering the entire value chain, as reported by the company in a statement. The consortium will also include Ingeteam Power Technology, Inerco Ingeniería Tecnológica y Consultoría, ABC Compressors,…

Companies, Spanish economy 27th March 2023

ACS wins contracts worth more than €315 million for water treatment and broadband network deployment in California

Intermoney | The company, through its US subsidiary Flatiron, has been awarded a series of water treatment and broadband network deployment contracts in California, involving an investment of €315 million, according to the financial daily Expansión, among other media. The largest of these will provide drinking water to communities in and around Oakland. Flatiron will upgrade existing facilities and build new ones. The developer of these investments is the East…

Companies, In the World 24th March 2023

Alphabet launches “Bart” AI chatbot to compete with ChatGPT

Banca March | The search engine Google has announced the launch of Bart, an artificial intelligence chatbot to compete with Open-AI’s popular ChatGPT. For the time being, the US multinational communications services company has opened access to the intelligent assistant to a limited number of users in the United States and the United Kingdom, in order to detect possible failures. Like ChatGPT, Bart is a chatbot that can be conversed…

Companies, In the World 21st March 2023

Iberdrola begins work on photovoltaic plants in Texas and Ohio, combined capacity 523.5 MW

Link Securities | The company, through its US subsidiary Avangrid, has begun construction of two of its largest photovoltaic plants in the country, located in Texas and Ohio. These are the True North and Ohio Powell Creek projects, with a combined capacity of 523.5 megawatts (MW). The Ohio Powell Creek farm, which is being built in Putnam County (Ohio), will have a capacity of 202.5 MW and will generate enough…

Companies, Spanish economy 20th March 2023

Repsol suspends LNG terminal project in Canada due to cost overruns

Norbolsa | Repsol has decided not to develop the Liquefied Natural Gas terminal it had projected on the east coast of Canada for European supply, as it would not be profitable due to transport costs. To reach the terminal, the gas would have to be transported thousands of kilometres from western Canada, which would require a new pipeline network through Canadian provinces and northeastern US states that have resisted fossil…

Companies, Spanish economy 16th March 2023

Credit Suisse model not comparable to that of Spanish banks: combined risk would not exceed €1 billion

Renta 4 : Credit Suisse has asked the Swiss National Bank to lend it 50 billion Swiss francs (€50.6 billion) of liquidity to strengthen it pre-emptively. In addition, the bank has announced a senior debt offering. This aid comes after the bank announced a review of its 2021 and 2022 accounts after finding flaws in risk measurement, and its main shareholder with a 9.8% stake said it will not inject…

Companies, European economy, In Europe 16th March 2023

Iberdrola and Haizea Wind Group sign €200m+ contract to supply East Anglia Three wind farm

Alphavalue/Divacons | The chairman of the Spanish utility, Ignacio Sánchez Galán, said that it is necessary to “run” and “accelerate” the commitment to a system based on clean energy so that Europe does not continue “with the anguish” of energy supply that it is experiencing and makes progress towards the self-sufficiency that “renewable energies provide”. On the other hand, Iberdrola (IBE) and Haizea Wind Group signed a contract worth more…

Companies, In the World 15th March 2023

HSBC buys UK subsidiary of Silicon Valley Bank for £1

Singular Bank | HSBC has bought the UK subsidiary of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) for £1 following the collapse of the regional bank. The purchase has been made through a private rescue provided by the UK government and the Bank of England. HSBC, Europe’s largest bank operating mainly in the Asian market, estimates the tangible equity of SVB’s UK subsidiary at around £1.4 billion. The money of all SVBUK depositors…

Companies, Spanish economy 11th March 2023

IAG, with biggest share of slots, to benefit most from Heathrow’s lower charges

Intermoney | The UK’s airport regulator decided on Wednesday that Heathrow’s airport charges should be lowered because passenger numbers have recovered faster than expected. In 2021, Heathrow was given permission to increase passenger charges for airlines from £19.60 to £30.19 by summer 2022 and the average passenger charge for 2023 is £31.57. This should fall to £25.43 in 2024 and remain flat until the end of 2026. Heathrow wanted charges…

Companies, In the World 10th March 2023

Breaking with rapper Kanye West and drop in Chinese sales cause Adidas to lose €724M in 4Q22

Norbolsa : The company publishes pre-announced results. It registers an operating loss in Q4 of €724M due to the effect of breaking the agreement with the rapper Kanye West and with sales in China falling by 50% in the quarter. Gross margin was 39.1%, affected by higher supply costs and higher discounts. It estimates an operating loss of €700m in 2023 due to inventory provisions and extraordinary costs. It considers…

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