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• All-Energy 2014 All Ready to Kick Off

  

  25 March 2014

  All-Energy 2014 will get off to a flying start on Wednesday 21 May with a plenary session featuring both the Secretary of State for Scotland, Rt Hon Alistair Carmichael MP, and Fergus Ewing MSP, Minister for Energy, Enterprise and Tourism, with other speakers including Rob Cormie, Group Operations Director, UK Green Investment Bank and Angela […]

• Ørsted and WWF Testing 3D-Printed Reefs at Danish Offshore Wind Farm

  

  27 June 2022

  Environment, R&D

  Ørsted and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF Denmark) are testing how 3D-printed reefs can benefit biodiversity in the Kattegat, a strait between Denmark and Sweden, which is experiencing a historically low cod stock, the Danish energy company said. This is the first time 3D-printed reefs are used in Danish waters, and they will […]

• German Industry Calls for 10 GW, EUR 10 Billion Push for Offshore Green Hydrogen Production

  

  2 June 2022

  Business & Finance

  Eight associations and networks in Germany, through a joint initiative called Offshore-Wind-H2-Eight (Offshore-Wind-H2-Achter), have called for bigger and concrete steps in bringing hydrogen production at sea, powered by offshore wind, to a more significant spot in German plans for producing hydrogen from renewable sources. “Hydrogen production at sea in the German exclusive economic zone offers […]

• ORE and Doble Team Up for HV Lab

  

  24 July 2014

  The Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult’s UKAS accredited High Voltage Electrical Laboratory has taken delivery of a 640kV resonant transformer in collaboration with Doble Engineering. The new partnership gives the HV laboratory, based at the National Renewable Energy Centre in Blyth, an enhanced capability enabling testing on bushings, high voltage power cables and other transmission […]

• Strong Wind Blowing for Offshore Supply Chain (UK)

  8 November 2010

  The outlook for Northern Europe’s offshore wind industry couldn’t be any stronger. With £60 million pledged from the Coalition Government, the UK is now not only the largest offshore wind market globally, but is also moving from strength to strength, growing in confidence, and here to stay. Not to forget, it’s not just current UK […]

• Gamesa to Make Decision on Multi-million Pound Factory (UK)

  

  22 November 2011

  Business & Finance

  BOSSES at a Spanish offshore firm are poised to make an announcement over a multi-million pound factory which could bring 1,000 jobs to Hartlepool. Madrid-based Gamesa will choose either Hartlepool or Dundee to build a UK base to construct wind turbines, and with all other contenders ruled out it is now a two-horse race between […]

• Narec to Manage GBP 11 Million Wind Innovation Programme (UK)

  

  7 November 2011

  Narec was successful in its bid for the second phase of Regional Growth Funding (RGF). Narec will manage the £11 million Wind Innovation Programme, which includes match funding from the private sector to the order of £5 million, to bring together offshore market leaders with world-class technology providers and academia in the UK.  Andrew Mill, […]

• Port Business Leader Urges Maritime Sector to Work Together on Offshore Revolution (UK)

  10 May 2011

  Authorities

    A DIRECTOR of a Humber-based port business is urging the government and maritime industry to work more closely together to secure thousands of offshore wind power jobs. Richard Brough OBE, managing director of Jenkins Ports Services Ltd, said there is no one organisation ensuring the UK’s ports and maritime industry has a coordinated approach […]

• US offshore wind opportunities in 2018

  

  12 April 2018

  By: Jason Deign, for New Energy Update The US offshore wind sector ended 2017 on a slightly ironic note. Plans for Cape Wind, which was supposed to have been the country’s first offshore wind farm, were finally shuttered after a long period of uncertainty.[1] But prospects for the rest of the market looked better than […]