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		<title>UK: Renewable Energy Companies Invite Students to Seawork 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 08:13:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adrijana</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The companies from the renewable energy industry, which are to attend Seawork International commercial marine showcase and conference on May 22 – 24, are seeking talented students to join the industry, the Daily Echo reports. Renewable energy is predicted to have a fourfold increase in number of jobs in the next eight years, thus the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK: RWE Hires CMACS to Manage Marine-Life Protection Measures at Gwynt y Môr</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 07:50:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A WIRRAL based environmental consultancy is to manage marine-life protection measures at one of the biggest wind farms currently in construction in Europe, after securing a £multi-million contract with Gwynt y Môr Offshore Wind Farm Limited. CMACS Ltd will deliver a robust monitoring programme throughout the wind farm’s construction, ensuring the safety of marine mammals, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia: Incat Crowther Launches Two 18m Catamaran Wind Farm Service Craft</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 07:36:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Incat Crowther announce the launch of ASP Tyne and ASP Thames, two 18 metre Catamaran Wind Farm Service Craft. ASP Tyne and ASP Thames were constructed by Topaz Marine at their Abu Dhabi yard in the UAE, and will be delivered to ASP Holdings in the UK. ASP Tyne and ASP Thames are the latest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK: EEEGR Appoints New Chief</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 06:48:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adrijana</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Simon Gray, currently chief executive of Wells Community Hospital, is to be the new ‘face’ of EEEGR, the East of England Energy Group. Mr Gray takes over as chief executive from EEEGR founder John Best who stepped down earlier this year. A former chief executive of the East Anglian Air Ambulance and having held senior [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK: Humber Stimulates Local Businesses to Use Its Opportunities</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 19:24:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adrijana</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest Renewing the Humber conference offered insights to companies in the area, which are searching to identify the Humber opportunities, This is Grimsby news portal reported. Grimsby is already serving the growing needs of the O&#38;M part, with manufacturing, assembly and installation logistics considerations for the larger later round projects, and Able&#8217;s Marine Energy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK: Colpitts Formes Renewable Energy Travel Support Team</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 19:08:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adrijana</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Colpitts World Travel announces its newly formed Renewable Energy travel support team, operating from their UK and European Headquarters in Edinburgh.   The team is able to draw on over 30 years of experience from the Oil and Gas division in Aberdeen, utilising a number of transferable skills as well as offering concessionary airfares that many sectors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scotland to Join Renewable Power Forces with Norway</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 19:08:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adrijana</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond while speaking on Monday in Norway, referred to progress made on NorthConnect, according to the UPI news portal. The NorthConnect is a planned venture to join the British and Scandinavian electricity grids by laying a subsea cable that would act as a two-way traffic route in renewable power, exchanging Scotland&#8217;s wind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK: Crown Estate Discusses Mapping Project with NFFO</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 19:07:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Federation of Fishermen&#8217;s Organisations (NFFO) and the Crown Estate recently hosted a meeting for representatives of fishing organisations from France, Netherlands, Germany, Belgium and Denmark, the FishUpdate news portal reports. The European fishing organisations were acquainted with the mapping project that the NFFO is working on in collaboration with the Crown Estate, which is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK: South Boats Delivers First WFSV to Offshore Wind Services BV</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 14:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[South Boats Special Projects Ltd. announce the launch and commissioning of its 60th offshore wind farm crew transfer vessel, ‘Offshore Wandelaar’. The vessel is the first of two South Catamaran 19m WFSV designs to be delivered to Offshore Wind Services BV, ahead of its sister ship ‘Offshore West Hinder’ which can be seen at Seawork [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RenewableUK Higlights Growth in Renewable Energy Supply Chain</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 14:16:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[RenewableUK, the trade and professional body for the wind, wave &#38; tidal industry, is today highlighting the string of recent announcements of growth in the renewable energy supply chain in the run-up to the world&#8217;s first global offshore wind conference. These announcements include: The granting of planning permission for Green Port Hull, an enormous development [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK: SSE Announces Full Year Results</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 14:11:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SSE announced its full year results for the year to 31 March 2012. Its renewable energy output came to a 3,206 GWh last year. It said that the progress at Greater Gabbard and Walney raised its net offshore wind capacity to 187MW. Lord Smith of Kelvin, Chairman of SSE said: &#8220;SSE has again delivered increases [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan: Reed Exhibitions Announces WIND EXPO 2013</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 11:35:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reed Exhibitions Japan Ltd. announced the opening of WIND EXPO 2013 – 1st Int&#8217;l Wind Energy Expo &#38; Conference. It is the very first exhibition and conference in Japan specialised in wind energy and will be held within World Smart Energy Week 2013 – a collective gathering of 8 specialised exhibitions and conferences related to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Germany: Operators to Charge Customers for Offshore Losses</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 11:17:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adrijana</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A draft made by the German Government indicates that it will allow  the offshore wind-power operators to compensate some of their losses by charging their customers, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports.   The mentioned losses refer to the ones regarded to the problems of transferring electricity to the mainland because of the damaged cables. The draft [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Germany: Number of Offshore Wind Employees Increases</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 10:19:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The number of employees in offshore wind industry in Germany rose from 6,900 employees in 2010 to 8,600 in 2011. The Federal Government said that the offshore wind energy is a new technological sector, for which there are no specific education and training programs. There were initial approaches and initiatives for definition of the new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK: Renewables Set to Boom in Asia, Says Report</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 09:11:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Renewable power is set to boom in many Asian countries, according to a new report from energy experts GlobalData. The new report states that government support for renewable generation in the Asia-Pacific is strong, due to growing energy demand, increasing concerns over global warming and the need to diversify energy sources. Australia, Japan and New [...]]]></description>
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		<title>France Reduces Nuclear Power Dependence with Offshore Wind</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 09:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[France&#8217;s first offshore wind farm tender, won by EDF in partnership with Alstom and Dong, will help reduce country’s dependence on nuclear power and catch up with the three leading countries in renewable energy capacity, according to PowerEngineering. Based on EWEA’s report published in November, even with the planned offshore wind projects, France has a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Austria: Offshore Wind Ecosystem Effects Discussed at EGU 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 08:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several sessions concerning climate change and the need to reduce society&#8217;s dependence on fossil fuels were held at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) general assembly in Vienna last month, PhysicsToday reports. Göran Broström of the Norwegian Meteorological Institute pointed out that the oceanographic and atmospheric community need to have a discussion about the influence before large offshore [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK: Rampion Met Mast Mistaken for Ship in Distress</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 08:28:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The meteorological mast installed offshore East Sussex to survey the planned wind farm site has been causing 999 calls, reported BBC. Mast&#8217;s flashing red and white lights look like a ship’s mayday call, but actually it is signaling a warning to ships in Morse code. Watch officer at Solent Coastguard, Karen Bosman said: &#8220;Obviously we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deutsche WindGuard and Petrofac Training Services Team Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 07:36:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Petrofac Training Services (PTS), a division in the Petrofac Group, has established a new training partnership with Deutsche WindGuard, a leading con-sultancy company to the German wind energy industry. Combining more than 40 years offshore experience, the two companies will pool their knowledge to add value to the training provided to both current and future [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK: Yellow Admiral at Seawork 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 07:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the last two years Yellow Admiral, the specialist marine employment agency based on the Essex coast, has sponsored the Guinness Bar at Seawork. This has coincided with, and hopefully been partially responsible for, a dramatic change in Yellow Admiral’s performance within the industry. Initially the company was built up around providing staff to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK: Trident to Take Part in All-Energy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 06:46:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Trident Energy will be exhibiting on Stand B62 at All-Energy, the UK’s largest Renewable Energy event taking place in Aberdeen on Wednesday 23rd and Thursday 24th May, 2012. The company is an independent developer of enabling technology for the offshore renewable energy industry. Its stand will feature the patented generator which converts linear motion directly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USA: Maine Approves Power Purchase Agreement With ORPC</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 14:33:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Care2 news portal, Maine’s Public Utilities Commission recently approved ORPC’s power purchase agreements (PPAs). The 20-year agreements with the tidal energy developer will generate electricity from its Cobscook Bay site in the Gulf of Maine. The company’s Maine Tidal Energy Project began to develop in March, when the bottom support frame for the first grid-connected [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Belgium: DeTect Installs MERLIN Avian Radar System at Thornton Bank</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 14:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DeTect has completed the installation of the MERLIN Avian Radar System at the wind farm substation on Thornton Bank, reports Windtech International. Last year in January, the Management Unit of the North Sea Mathematical Models (MUMM) acquired the radar system to track the bird movement along the coast at Zeebrugge. After the completed monitoring at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OGN Group to Showcase Its Expertise at RenewableUK Global Offshore Wind 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 13:23:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aquind, a subsidiary of OGN Group, one of the UK’s leading EPC service providers to the offshore wind energy sector is to exhibit at the RenewableUK Global Offshore Wind 2012 Exhibition. You can visit stand 436 to meet the Aquind and OGN team and find out more about their capabilities as a leading EPC contractor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK: GEO.xyz to Exhibit at All Energy 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 12:58:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[GEO.xyz continues to invest in bespoke survey &#38; support vessels and survey equipment. During All Energy 2012, “Geosurveyor VIII” will be presented as the fifth multipurpose catamaran in the GEO.xyz-fleet of vessels. With an MCA cat. 2 certificate, for operations up to 60 nm from safe haven, this new build vessel, confirms GEO.xyz’s commitment in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK: GlobalData Releases Vessels, Cables and Foundations in Offshore Wind Market Report</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 12:52:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Vessels, Cables and Foundations in the Offshore Wind Market &#8211; Global Market Size, Cost Analysis, Market Share and Demand-Supply Scenario to 2020&#8243; is the latest report from GlobalData, the industry analysis specialists that offer comprehensive information and understanding of the vessels and foundation market in the offshore wind industry. The research provides an understanding of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK: NFFO Releases 2012 Report</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 11:37:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chairman of the National Federation of Fishermen&#8217;s Organisations, Arnold Locker has released a report for 2012. For the fishing industry, this is a period of enormous upheaval and change. The stability, in regulatory requirements, that has been the industry’s constant demand for well over a decade, seems even further out of reach than ever. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Canada: Nova Scotia Outlines Steps for Marine Renewable Energy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 10:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nova Scotia has taken another step towards turning its abundant ocean energy resources into an affordable supply of clean, renewable electricity. The province released a plan today, May 14, that outlines how it will use local expertise and knowledge to develop the emerging energy sector. The Marine Renewable Energy Strategy contains broad policy, economic and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A2SEA Signs Renewable UK Offshore Wind and Marine Energy Safety Accord</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 09:52:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A2SEA has signed up to the Renewable UK’s Offshore Wind and Marine Energy Safety Accord. A2SEA has always supported and been a member of Renewable UK actively campaigning to establish safety standards in Offshore Wind by utilising voice at events and conferences, ensuring a safe working environment and participating in working groups with Renewable UK [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Germany: Change in Solar FIT Could Threaten Offshore Wind</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Upper House of the German Federal Parliament, the Bundesrat, voted against reform of the feed-in tariff (FIT) for solar energy, according to the North American Windpower. The opposition didn&#8217;t get enough votes to reject the law, but the number was enough to postpone its adoption. The research firm Jefferies reported that the FIT rates [...]]]></description>
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