Businesses of all shapes and sizes can now bid for a share of £30 million to boost growth, and build on the Humber’s position as the UK’s energy estuary, Business Minister Michael Fallon announced on February 8. The launch of the Humber local enterprise partnership’s (LEP) scheme came as part of the Minister’s tour of [...]
Energy and sustainability advisory company DNV KEMA, the energy arm of DNV, has appointed the former President of Sweco Norway to the post of Scandinavia regional manager. Vibecke Hverven joins DNV KEMA on 1 December with more than seven years of experience as President of Sweco Norge, a leading multidisciplinary consultancy company in the field [...]
As voters contemplate who will occupy the White House and Congress in the years ahead, The Center for the Next Generation and the Center for American Progress released “Regional Energy, National Solutions,” a new report that argues that the United States needs a long-term strategy to achieve climate stability, economic prosperity, and energy security using [...]
Following the CSO change in A2SEA, the company has appointed Sascha Wiesner as new Country Manager of Germany, to replace Martin Huss, who has just taken over the position as new CSO of A2SEA. Sascha Wiesner comes from a position as Offshore Sales Manager Europe for Samsung Heavy Industries, where he among others has held [...]
Deputy Secretary of the Interior David J. Hayes met with senior federal and state officials in Anchorage to ensure the continuing coordination of federal responsibilities related to energy permitting in Alaska. The visit was part of President Obama’s all-of-the-above energy strategy to safely and responsible expand domestic energy production and to coordinate energy development and [...]
As of 15 May, Martin Huss is employed as new Regional Manager and Managing Director of A2SEA GmbH. Martin will be operating from A2SEA’s Hamburg office, and work with all three A2SEA business units: Installation, Cabling, and Service and Logistics. Lars Kiesewetter, who has been Regional Manager since 2007, will join A2SEA’s growing Ser-vice and [...]
Cape Wind will reduce wholesale electric prices for the New England region by $7.2 billion over 25 years, according to a new report published by Charles River Associates, a leading economic consulting firm. The report shows that ISO New England, the electric grid operator, first dispatches electric generating units with the lowest cost fuel. Since [...]
The Crown Estate has commissioned ABPmer to develop a regional wave and tidal model for the Pentland Firth and Orkney Waters strategic area. The model aims to develop a refined description of the marine energy resource as well as help to better understand the magnitude and extent of cumulative effects from multiple planned developments. The [...]
Ballast Nedam is to adjust the capacity of the Infra regional companies in response to deteriorating market conditions. The regional companies have been unable to contribute positively to overall operating results. The regional companies are still to a large degree dependent on public tenders for securing smaller, traditional contracts. These contracts are largely with local [...]
Ten NOF Energy members based in North East England have been successful in securing a proportion of the Government’s £950million Regional Growth Fund. NOF Energy is the business support organisation for oil, gas, nuclear and offshore renewables sectors. George Rafferty, Chief Executive of NOF Energy said: “Our members are directly and in-directly involved in key [...]
