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  • Critical Group and Floating Power Plant Working on Poseidon (Denmark)

    16 November 2011

    Critical Software Technologies (UK), Critical Software (PT) and Critical Materials (PT) are working with Floating Power Plant to help the company adopt a proactive approach to monitoring the condition and structural health of its Poseidon off-shore plant. Critical’s work on the Poseidon prototype, situated off the coast of Lolland in Denmark, will open up an […]

  • Nova Scotia Issues Offshore Wind Roadmap

    19 June 2023
    Authorities

    The Canadian Province of Nova Scotia has released a roadmap for the development of its offshore wind industry following last year’s announcement to offer seabed leases for 5 GW of offshore wind energy by 2030. In September of last year, Nova Scotia announced that it will offer leases for 5 GW of offshore wind energy […]

  • Van Oord Using Cuxport Terminal’s New Berth for Deutsche Bucht OWF

    28 August 2018
    Ports & Logistics, Vessels

    Van Oord is using the new berth at the Cuxport Terminal in Cuxhaven for the Deutsche Bucht offshore wind project, Cuxport informed, saying that the berth no. 4 has thus become the location for its first offshore project even before its official launch. 

  • Atlantis Expects Financial Closure of MeyGen Project

    7 July 2014
    Business & Finance

    Atlantis, a vertically integrated equipment supplier and project owner in the tidal power industry, noted report regarding the Department of Energy & Climate Change’s likely participation in the MeyGen Project. The MeyGen project, which is 100% owned by Atlantis, is located in the Pentland Firth in Scotland and is the largest planned free stream tidal […]

  • Synced Approach to Help US Coastal States Reach Offshore Wind Targets, PJM Study Finds

    20 October 2021
    Grid Connection, R&D

    US regional transmission system operator (TSO) PJM Interconnection has published the Phase 1 results of a study into offshore transmission options to deliver offshore wind electricity to coastal states from their soon-to-be-built offshore wind farms. According to the first results of the study, undertaken together with state agencies to identify solutions across the PJM footprint, […]

  • WindEurope: Wind Can Power Quarter of Europe by 2030

    11 May 2016
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Grid Connection, R&D, Technology

    Wind energy can serve a quarter of Europe’s electricity demand by 2030 if policymakers take ambitious measures to reform EU power markets, WindEurope CEO Giles Dickson told the Flame conference in Amsterdam. Electricity market reform is the most important way of managing a higher share of renewables in the power mix, according to Dickson. “We […]

  • JDR Adds Board Muscle

    1 February 2016
    Business & Finance

    JDR, a UK based supplier of subsea umbilicals and power cables to the offshore energy industry, has appointed Rob Hastings and Alan Wilson as Non-Executive Directors. Rob Hastings is currently Executive Director of the corporate management board at The Crown Estate. He is directly responsible for the Energy & Infrastructure portfolio, constituting the Crown Estates’ property […]

  • Ørsted to Open New Jersey Office in May

    5 April 2018
    Business & Finance

    Ørsted, the developer of the Ocean Wind project proposed to be built off New Jersey, will open an office in Atlantic City next month, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy announced at the International Partnering Forum (IPF) 2018 in Princeton. 

  • Update: First Block Island Nacelle Installed

    4 August 2016
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Brave Tern has installed the first of five Haliade nacelles on the 30MW Block Island offshore wind farm, the first wind farm of its kind in US waters, located some three miles south-east of Block Island, Rhode Island. The installation of the blades, delivered to the site by lift boats L/B Caitlin, and L/B Paul, […]

  • Windstream Energy to Invest in Kingston (Canada)

    26 January 2012

    Windstream Energy has announced its decision to invest in Kingston, home to Ontario’s first contracted offshore wind power project. At a press conference yesterday organized by the Lake Ontario Offshore Network (LOON), Windstream announced preliminary agreements with Anchor Concrete Products Ltd., George A. Wright & Son Ltd. and M. Sullivan & Son Ltd. for its […]

  • Fundy Tidal Closes Partnership with Ontario Firm

    24 November 2014
    Business & Finance

    Fundy Tidal has closed investment by Tribute, through its wholly owned subsidiary International Marine Energy Inc. (IME), on November 6, 2014, during the International Conference on Ocean Energy 2014 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. IME subscribed for 10% minority interest in Fundy Tidal, being 398,500 common shares, for a subscription price of $597,750.  In addition, the […]

  • The Netherlands: ECN Releases Policy Brief on “Renewable Energy: from Marginal to Mainstream”

    25 April 2013

      Renewable energy is facing a new era, both globally and in the European context. Whilst renewable energy is foreseen to play a key role in all routes towards decarbonisation of energy economy, fundamental questions of how to bring renewable energy from marginal to mainstream remain to be addressed. There is currently no European renewable […]

  • Support for Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon Grows

    17 January 2014

    Support for the proposed Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon continues to grow with over 1000 people having signed up to become members of Active Supporters Groups. The Groups are chaired by Ian Isaac, Tony Cuff, Chris Kelly and Alan Glass. Ian Isaac, Chief Executive of NSA Afan explains why he has chosen to support plans for […]

  • Viessmann to Introduce Its Method to Turn Excess Renewable Power into Gas

    5 March 2014
    R&D

    At Ecobuild 2014 Viessmann will be presenting its power-to-gas solution for addressing the peaks in power generation from weather-dependant renewable energy sources. Viessmann, one of the world’s leading sustainable heating systems manufacturers, believes its model for storing excess power in the gas grid can pave the way for the UK’s successful transition from conventional to […]

  • Maryland Governor Testifies to Support Offshore Wind Act (USA)

    4 March 2011
    Ports & Logistics

    Governor Martin O’Malley today appeared before the House of Delegates’ Economic Matters Committee to testify in support of the Maryland Offshore Wind Energy Act of 2011, which will require that public utilities leverage Maryland’s outstanding offshore wind resources by entering into long-term purchase agreements with wind power generation facilities off of the Mid-Atlantic coast. The […]

  • Danish Researchers Turning Wind Energy into Gas

    22 January 2016
    Environment, R&D, Technology

    Wind energy can be converted into methane gas and stored in a natural gas grid, eliminating carbon emissions from biogas plants which use this method, a research project carried out by the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and Lemvig Biogas Plant has shown. Through the MeGA-StoRE project (Methane Gas Storage for Renewable Energy), DTU and Lemvig Biogas […]

  • Floating Wind Farm Offshore Portugal Overdelivers

    24 September 2021
    Wind Farm Update

    The 25 MW Windfloat Atlantic floating wind farm offshore Portugal produced 75 GWh of electricity in its first year of operation, EDP Renewables said. Located 20 kilometers off the coast of Viana do Castelo, the project is the world’s first semi-submersible floating wind farm which became operational in July 2020. The wind farm was developed […]

  • Beothuk Proposes 1GW Wind Farm off Nova Scotia

    22 December 2015
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Canada’s Beothuk Energy has revealed plans to build a 1 gigawatt offshore wind farm off the coast of Nova Scotia. The project is estimated to cost CAD 4 billion (USD 2.87bn). Beothuk is proposing to manufacture and install the wind farm in shallow waters off Canada’s southwest coast. The power generated by the wind farm will be exported to New England via a […]

  • VIDEO: How WaveRoller Works?

    6 February 2013
    R&D, Technology

    AW-Energy Ltd is a Finnish company developing the patented WaveRoller, which is the first device to utilize the well known form of ocean wave energy – the surge phenomenon. Recently, Memorandum of Understanding of cooperation in the energy sector between Chile and Finland was signed. The agreement includes an initial statement to set up a […]

  • New Analysis of Vattenfall AB (Sweden)

    21 December 2011

    Research and Markets published Vattenfall AB SWOT analysis. Vattenfall AB is a power company that has its headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden. Established in 1909, the company has gone on to expand itself to the point of generating EUR 15 billion in revenues last year alone. It now has significant presence in Germany, Poland, Netherlands, United […]

  • Renewable Energy Advancing in USA

    27 February 2013

    The Obama Administration’s renewable energy program has authorized dozens of renewable energy projects on public lands and will hold the first-ever auctions for commercial wind development in the Atlantic this year, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar told offshore wind stakeholders at a conference in Boston. Salazar noted that the rapid progress – as well […]

  • SCORE Looking to Back Ideas for Maturing OWF O&M, Decommissioning

    26 February 2018
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, R&D

    The team behind the GBP 6 million SCORE grant fund is looking to support companies from the oil & gas industry that can bring new ideas for long-term offshore asset management in the offshore wind sector.

  • Atlantis Raises GBP 2.5 Mln for UK Tidal Energy Projects

    20 August 2015
    Business & Finance

    Atlantis Resources Limited has raised £2.5 million before expenses through the conditional placing of 5,952,380 new ordinary shares. Tim Cornelius, CEO of Atlantis, commented: “We are very pleased with the continued support of our shareholders demonstrated through this successful placing. The funds raised will allow us to replicate our success at the MeyGen project and bring […]

  • U.S. Senator Menendez: New OW Project Adds Jobs, Makes NJ National Wind Energy Leader

    12 August 2014
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Last week, U.S. Senator Robert Menendez visited Steel Pier in Atlantic City, where it was officially announced that Fishermen’s Energy will receive up to $47 million in federal grants over the next four years from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Wind Program for its Atlantic City Wind Farm offshore wind energy demonstration pilot project. Senator Menendez discussed the […]

  • Offshore Wind Supply to Exceed Demand for Next Decade, Says EWEA (UK)

    16 January 2012

    One of the latest developments coming from Germany – Europe’s biggest economy – in relation to the renewable energy industry is news that the utility giant RWE has announced its plans to invest €5bn in both the UK and Poland. There is also to be an additional €1bn investment in offshore wind developments in the […]

  • Australia: Renewable Energy Industry to Share Its Knowledge

    7 June 2013

    Information, data and lessons learnt by the renewable energy industry will be shared in a $60 million initiative launched today by Resources and Energy Minister Gary Gray. The goal is to overcome barriers and increase the use of renewable energy. Mr Gray said the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) was driving a range of knowledge […]