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  • UK: Houlder Presents Turbine Access System at BIS

    17 April 2012
    Technology

    UK Engineering company Houlder’s Turbine Access System® is being showcased at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) today, and for the next fortnight, to highlight its contribution to the UK Marine Industry.   Held in association with the UK Marine Industries Alliance ‘Marine Manufacturing – Global excellence and innovation’ celebrates the role of the industry […]

  • Fishermen Continue Fight Against New York Offshore Wind Farm

    21 September 2017
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    A group of fishing organizations, businesses, and communities, led by the Fisheries Survival Fund (FSF), has moved forward with its lawsuit to halt the leasing of a planned wind farm off the coast of New York.

  • Siemens Opens Its Testing and Assembly Facility in Bristol, UK

    8 April 2013
    Technology

    Edward Davey, secretary of state for Energy and Climate Change praised Siemens for its investment in innovative marine technologies at the opening of its new testing and assembly facility in Bristol today. The new 25,000 square feet facility will be the base for the development of next- generation drive trains used in SeaGen – the […]

  • RenewableUK Welcomes GBP 20 Million MEAD Scheme

    8 April 2012

    RenewableUK, the trade association for the wind, wave and tidal industry, has welcomed the launch of the Marine Energy Array Demonstrator (MEAD) scheme, which will provide £20 million of funding for the first marine arrays. An ‘array’ is an arrangement of multiple wave and/or tidal power devices, analogous to multiple wind turbines arranged into a […]

  • Marine Current Turbines Gets Green Light for First Tidal Farm off Isle of Skye

    1 April 2011

    Marine Current Turbines Ltd, the British developer of SeaGen the world’s first commercial-scale offshore tidal energy turbine, is on course to install one of Scotland’s first tidal energy farms after securing an Agreement for Lease from The Crown Estate for a four turbine tidal farm in Kyle Rhea, a strait of water between the Isle […]

  • Crown Estate Grants Site Lease to Marine Current Turbines (UK)

    12 October 2011

      Plans by Marine Current Turbines and its project partner RWE npower renewables to install and operate Wales’s first-ever tidal energy farm have moved a step closer with the granting of an Agreement for Lease by The Crown Estate for the Skerries Tidal Stream Array, which is proposed for the waters off the coast of […]

  • FORCE to Update Parrsboro’s Public on Tidal Energy Project

    16 May 2014
    Technology

    FORCE and its partners will hold a public meeting on Tuesday, May 20, in Parrsboro. They will offer an update on the tidal energy project in the Bay of Fundy, as well as introduce some of their new members. This will be an opportunity to meet and hear from: Minas Energy, Marine Current Turbines (a Siemens business), and Bluewater, OpenHydro […]

  • RYA Objects to Tidal Energy Development

    10 July 2014

    The Crown Estate, manager of the UK seabed, has announced that it has agreed seabed rights for six new wave and tidal current demonstration zones and five new wave and tidal current sites around the UK. Of the 11 zones and sites announced the RYA is particularly concerned with plans to place a further tidal […]

  • UK: A2SEA Signs Contract for Gwynt y Môr

    12 July 2012
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    From spring 2013, A2SEA will play a key role in helping build one of the largest offshore wind farms in the world. A2SEA will provide specialist jack-up’s SEA JACK and SEA WORKER to install 160 Siemens 3.6MW turbines on RWE’s Gwynt y Môr offshore wind farm. Gwynt y Môr offshore wind farm, located off the […]

  • UK: Tritech’s Marine Mammal Detection System Shows Good Results

    3 June 2012
    Environment

    Gemini SeaTec provides an early warning of the presence of marine mammals in the vicinity of marine current turbine structures. The Gemini SeaTec system has been successfully field tested on the Marine Current Turbine (MCT) SeaGen installation in Strangford Lough, Northern Ireland, overseen and tested by the Sea Mammal Research Unit (SMRU) Ltd. Launched at […]

  • Narec Completes Testing of Siemens’ 1MW Powertrain

    11 June 2014
    Technology

    The Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult’s (ORE Catapult), National Renewable Energy Centre has completed a multi-axis onshore endurance test programme on Siemens-owned Marine Current Turbines’ (MCT) first 1MW powertrain (gearbox, generator and power conditioning equipment) using the 3MW tidal turbine drive train testing facility. During the 11 month test programme the 1MW turbine was exposed to […]

  • UK: Part of GBP 20 Million Fund for Sea Generation Wales

    27 February 2013
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    Sea Generation Wales Ltd has been awarded a share of £20 million funding under the government’s Marine Energy Array Demonstrator scheme (MEAD), launched in April last year, to support the development and testing of pre-commercial marine devices in array formations out at sea. Besides Sea Generation Wales Ltd, MeyGen Ltd also received share of this […]

  • Tritech Launches Mammal Detection System at All-Energy (UK)

    18 May 2011

    Tritech expands its industry-standard sonar range with a key renewables device, launching its Gemini SeaTec Mammal Detection System at the All-Energy show in Aberdeen, UK. Gemini SeaTec is a mammal detection system which provides a valuable tool in the detection of marine life around subsea turbines. Tritech’s subsea sonars have been deployed on marine current […]

  • RWE OLC Charters Offshore Construction Vessel to ZPMC Profundo

    2 December 2014

    Offshore Logistics Company (OLC), a subsidiary of RWE Innogy GmbH (RWE), has signed a 5 year bareboat charter for their offshore construction vessel, Friedrich Ernestine, with the Chinese joint venture company ZPMC Profundo Wind Energy Co.,Ltd. The vessel will mobilise to the Far East in early 2015 to commence operations in the Chinese and Asian […]

  • UK: Port of Mostyn Confirmed as Turbine Installation Base

    13 July 2012
    Operations & Maintenance, Ports & Logistics

    GWYNT Y MÔR Offshore Wind Farm Limited can confirm that the Port of Mostyn in North Wales will be the base for its wind turbine installation programme. All 160 turbines will be installed from the Port on the Flintshire coast, and follows an announcement last year that Mostyn will benefit from the construction of an operations and maintenance […]

  • Andrew Tyler Resigns as CEO of Marine Current Turbines (UK)

    18 December 2012
    Business & Finance

    Dr Andrew Tyler FREng CBE has resigned as Chief Executive Officer of Siemens’ Marine Current Turbines (MCT) and will be leaving the company at the end of the year. Andrew was appointed as MCT’s CEO in June 2011 after five years as Chief Operating Officer for the UK Ministry of Defence. Andrew was recruited to […]

  • Belfast Waterfront Hosts RenewableUK Wave and Tidal Event

    31 March 2014

    Belfast Waterfront recently hosted RenewableUK’s 11th Annual Wave and Tidal Conference and Exhibition, the largest event of its kind not only in the UK, but throughout the world, for the first time in Northern Ireland. Hailed as being at the forefront of developing energy generation from the tides, Northern Ireland has `charged ahead` in the […]

  • RWE Innogy to Use Liverpool for Gwynt y Môr Installation (UK)

    5 October 2011

    RWE Innogy today signed agreements on the use of areas at Birkenhead port near Liverpool. From October this year, RWE Innogy will use these areas as a base port for constructing the offshore wind farm Gwynt y Môr (Welsh for “sea wind”). The lease agreements concluded between RWE npower renewables and the Cammell Laird shipyard […]

  • IT Power Wins FCO Contract to Cooperate on UK-China Ocean Energy

    29 September 2011

      IT Power has been awarded a contract by the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), as part of its China Prosperity Strategic Programme, to establish co-operation between the UK and China on Ocean Energy. Working with the Sustainable Energy Research Group (SERG) at the University of Southampton and Chinese partners including the China National […]

  • UK: Marine Renewables Play Key Role in All-Energy 2012

    14 May 2012

    All-Energy, the UK’s largest exhibition and conference dedicated to renewable energy being held in Aberdeen on Wednesday 23- Thursday 24 May, is just over a week away. Not surprisingly in a city – The Energy City – where offshore interests (oil, gas and fishing) are so important, marine renewables in the form of offshore wind, […]

  • Canada: Tidal Energy Holds Great Potential

    27 July 2011
    Business & Finance, Technology

    Minas Basin Pulp and Power Co. Ltd. (MBPP) is paving the way for coastal communities in Nova Scotia to compete in a growing industry. In 2008, the provincial government gave MBPP, a Hantsport-based pulp and power production company, the go-ahead to develop North America’s first tidal power observation facility — a multi-million dollar project that […]

  • M/V Torben

    3 October 2014

    Year of build: 2011  Design: Seabreeze Wartsila & IMS for RWE Innogy  LOA: 100m  Gross tonnage: 11,730t  Deck area:   Variable Load: 15t/m²  Max water depth: up to 45m  Crane type: Liebherr BOS 35000  Max lifting capacity: 1000t at 25m  Accommodation details: 60 persons  Helideck: ø17m  Service speed: 7.5 knots