325 results found for 'norfolk zone'

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  • 14 March 2017
    Grid Connection, R&D, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    APEM has undertaken an aerial survey to assist Vattenfall in identifying an onshore cable corridor for the 1.8GW Norfolk Vanguard and the 1.8GW Norfolk Boreas offshore wind farms.

  • 4 January 2012

    Great Yarmouth could see increase in its population of up to 120,000. This increase would be the prospect of East Anglia Array offshore wind farm construction. Barry Stone, from Great Yarmouth Borough Council, said that increasing the number of houses would be the best way to attract businesses to the town and the area, reports […]

  • 20 March 2013
    Business & Finance

    This week, Electro-tech, a specialist source and supply company servicing the energy sector, is moving into the Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft Enterprise Zone, created by the New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership. Electro-tech offers UK and global clients a simple and cost effective way to purchase goods from one supplier. Items range from audio cables to […]

  • 18 April 2019
    Business & Finance

    Ørsted has awarded fourteen organizations from Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and North Norfolk in the UK with grants from the fifth round of its East Coast Community Fund. The East Coast Community Fund was launched in December 2016 as part of Ørsted’s community engagement program for its Hornsea Project One and Race Bank offshore wind farms. The 14 awarded groups […]

  • 16 January 2017
    Business & Finance

    UK community fund administrator GrantScape has, on behalf of DONG Energy, opened the first round of applications for the East Coast Community Fund available to coastal communities on the Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, and North Norfolk coasts. The East Coast Community Fund has been set up to ensure that local people benefit from the operation of two of DONG’s offshore […]

  • 25 April 2019
    Business & Finance

    Ørsted has opened the third round of its East Coast Skills Fund for applications, with GBP 55,000 available for coastal areas of Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and North Norfolk. The grants will be available to organizations that can develop and deliver Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) related training or education courses, a one-off event, or a program of […]

  • 27 February 2015
    Business & Finance

    New Anglia LEP has welcomed a big new investment in a major wind farm planned off the coast of East Anglia which has won the UK Government approval. Mark Pendlington, Chairman of New Anglia LEP said: “This further confirms the place of East Anglia as a top location in the world for offshore wind. “The […]

  • 8 April 2016
    Environment, R&D, Wind Farm Update

    APEM will complete a final survey over Vattenfall’s Norfolk Vanguard East site this month, as part of an eight month project to gather data on birds and marine mammals in the area. Eight surveys were flown out from Norwich International Airport at monthly intervals between September 2015 and April 2016 and the resulting images were […]

  • 2 July 2012
    Training & Education

    Scira Offshore Energy is evolving the Sheringham Shoal Community Fund, operated by Norfolk Community Foundation, to include a Bursary Scheme for young people from low income families who would like to study engineering at one of three Norfolk colleges. Potential students can now apply for a bursary to support their studies following the launch of […]

  • 20 January 2014

    A crewman has been airlifted to hospital this morning after a fire on board a wind farm support vessel 4 nautical miles off Great Yarmouth. Humber Coastguard received a call from the vessel Norfolk Tern just after 8am reporting they had a fire in their starboard engine. They had managed to bring it under control, […]

  • 3 July 2017
    Business & Finance

    East Anglia ONE has put Norwich and East Norfolk in a leading position among districts across the UK in 2016, with more than GBP 2.7 billion worth of construction contracts, helped greatly by the year’s largest contract award, the GBP 1.8 billion East Anglia ONE offshore wind farm.

  • 16 July 2018
    Business & Finance

    Ørsted has opened the second round of its East Coast Skills Fund for applications, with GBP 55,000 available for experienced organisations that can develop and deliver Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM)- related training or education courses, a one-off event, or a programme of targeted events.

  • 17 August 2016
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    DONG Energy’s 580MW Race Bank offshore wind farm got the first of two of its offshore substations last week, Smulders reports. The topside and the jacket of the Race Bank 02 substation, loaded out back in June, were successfully installed at the site off Norfolk, UK, by Seaway Heavy Lifting. Iemants and Engie Fabricom are currently building […]

  • 31 October 2017
    Wind Farm Update

    Vattenfall has issued a preliminary environmental information report revealing project details related to the 1.8GW Norfolk Vanguard offshore wind farm.

  • 20 October 2014
    Operations & Maintenance, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    The Bathymetric Survey at the Robin Rigg offshore wind farm is now complete and the 12 meter Catamaran ‘Norfolk Swift’ has demobilised from this site. A general maintenance programme will continue with the transfer of technicians out to selected turbines by Crew Transfer Vessels (CTVs) on a daily basis as and when required. There are now […]

  • 3 July 2024
    Vessels

    WINDEA CTV, a partnership between Hornblower Group and MidOcean Wind, has completed the delivery of four US-built, hybrid-ready crew transfer vessels (CTVs) for operations supporting large-scale commercial offshore wind projects along the East Coast. The four CTVs include the previously delivered WINDEA Courageous and WINDEA Intrepid, as well as the recently completed and delivered WINDEA […]

  • 20 February 2012

    Ginny Louise, a vessel designed by a Norfolk company to handle the North Sea conditions, enters service today. Operated by Docking-based Tidal Transit, she will be in charge of transferring workers from Lowestoft to the Greater Gabbard site off the Suffolk coast. This £1.5m newbuild is designed to offer stability and safety while transporting people […]

  • 23 November 2021
    Wind Farm Update

    On behalf of Sheringham Shoal Extension and Dudgeon Extension partnerships (SEP and DEP), Equinor has published a summary of its phase two consultation, which took place in the summer of this year. SEP and DEP will double the capacity of the existing Sheringham Shoal and Dudgeon offshore wind farms off the Norfolk coast to around […]

  • 10 February 2012

    A Norfolk-based company has secured a contract to transfer workers between Lowestoft and a proposed Greater Gabbard wind farm offshore Suffolk, reports EDP 24. The five-month contract worth GBP 300.000 will help Tidal Transit create three new jobs. The wind farm, which is located 25 kilometres off the coast of Suffolk, will comprise 140 wind […]

  • 7 July 2017
    Business & Finance, Training & Education

    DONG Energy has announced plans for a new GBP 75,000 Skills Fund as part of the company’s annual GBP 465,000 UK East Coast Community Fund.

  • 12 December 2017

    A Cable Relay Station (CRS) for the Norfolk Vanguard project could turn out to be a stumbling stone for Vattenfall’s proposed HVAC option, as North Norfolk District Council pointed to this part of the proposal as the one to be further examined, a little after Happisburgh residents voiced their concerns over this onshore solution at Vattenfall’s consultation session mid-November.

  • 13 March 2012

    Cefas, executive agency of Defra acting on behalf of the UK Government, has been tasked with delivering a programme of R&D data collection to support implementation of Marine Conservation Zones (MCZs) within the UK Continental Shelf. MCZs are intended to conserve or improve the UK marine environment. A number of contracts (LOTs) have been awarded […]

  • 22 October 2017

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  • 23 January 2013
    Authorities

    Public consultation opened on Monday 21 January on North Norfolk District Council’s (NNDC) proposals to designate 28 hectares of land at Egmere, to the west of Walsingham and south of Wells-next-the-Sea, as suitable for companies supporting offshore wind energy schemes off the north Norfolk coast to locate their operations. The council is seeking to establish […]

  • 11 July 2017
    Business & Finance

    Twenty one local organisations in coastal areas of Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and North Norfolk have secured a total of GBP 195,000 in grants in the first round of DONG Energy’s GBP 9.3 million East Coast Community Fund.

  • 27 February 2017
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    ​DONG Energy has published an indicative area in which the cables carrying clean electricity from its proposed Hornsea Project Three offshore wind farm could be located, and is seeking feedback from local communities in Norfolk. Hornsea Project Three is a 2.4GW project that if built out to capacity will provide enough power for well over […]