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  • RenewableUK Highlights Wind Energy Jobs in January

    1 February 2012
    Jobs & Recruitment

    RenewableUK, the renewable energy trade association, is highlighting a raft of job announcements in the wind industry in January, bucking the national trend. On 31st January, Samsung announced a £100 million project in Scotland to develop its new 7 megawatt offshore turbine at Fife Energy Park, which will employ up to 500 people. It’s the […]

  • SSE Rolls Out GBP 7 Billion Green Investment Plan

    17 June 2020
    Business & Finance

    SSE plc is planning to invest more than GBP 7 billion over the next five years in major low-carbon construction projects to support the net-zero target and spur a green economic recovery.    The plan will see SSE invest almost GBP 4 million every day for the next five years on projects, including the GBP 3 […]

  • Offshore Energy Girl Power Promoted at Westminster

    15 June 2015

    The Great Yarmouth-based Women in Energy Networking Group’s (WEN) – set up to support, nurture and develop females in an industry where 96.3% of offshore workers are men – joined the Powerful Women’s networking event at Westminster. In its first year it has organised events, worked with colleges and schools to show female students opportunities […]

  • Saipem Sheds More Light on Formosa 2 Contract

    28 November 2019
    Contracts & Tenders

    Italian offshore energy contractor Saipem will manufacture and deliver 32 wind turbine jacket foundations for the 376MW Formosa 2 offshore wind farm in Taiwan. As reported earlier, Jan De Nul, the EPCI contractor for the project’s foundations and subsea cables, selected Saipem and Sembcorp to deliver the pile jacket foundations for the wind farm. At […]

  • Insurers to Play Important Role in Sustaining Growth of Renewables Sector in UK, Ireland

    18 April 2013

    Green energy is set for big growth across the United Kingdom and Ireland, prompting Lloyd’s to hold its All Island Renewable Energy Conference today at the iconic Titanic Belfast complex in Northern Ireland. Speakers representing stakeholders from across the sector will explore the important finance, investment and risk management issues confronting the renewable energy business. […]

  • Bourbon to Operate IWS Skywalker Vessels on French Offshore Wind Farms

    16 June 2022
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    Bourbon has entered into a strategic partnership with IWS Fleet, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Integrated Wind Solutions AS (IWS), that will allow the company to offer commissioning and maintenance services to the French offshore wind market by using IWS’s Skywalker class vessels. This agreement will allow Bourbon to market and operate the IWS’s Skywalker class […]

  • Top Industry Journal Recognizes Natural Power Complex Flow Paper (USA)

    2 March 2011

    Independent renewable energy consultancy Natural Power has published a paper on time-dependant computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis which has been accepted by the peer-reviewed Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics. The journal reports on all aspects of wind engineering and the activities of the International Association for Wind Engineering. The paper was written by […]

  • Bourbon Establishes Offshore Wind Division

    29 September 2022
    Business & Finance

    Bourbon has set up a new division dedicated solely to offshore wind, Bourbon Wind, following the Bourbon Group’s increasing involvement in the sector. The company says the new division will support the group’s ambition to become a major player in the entire value chain: pre-studies, transport and installation services, field maintenance, floaters repair, and personnel […]

  • Irish Floating Wind Developer Setting Up Operations in US

    18 August 2021
    Business & Finance

    Irish floating offshore wind developer Simply Blue Group is looking to develop floating wind projects in the US and has now assembled a leadership team for its operations in the country. With the US recently announcing its offshore wind target of 30 GW by 2030 and experts saying the country has the potential to develop […]

  • Nexans Wins Moray West Export Cable Supply Contract

    9 December 2021
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    French cable specialist Nexans has won a contract to supply the onshore and offshore export cables for the 860 MW Moray West wind farm project off Scotland. Subject to the award of a Contract for Difference in 2022 and Financial Close, the wind farm will feature Nexans High Voltage Alternating Current (HVAC) cabling. Project execution […]

  • EDF Renewables Picks Sennen O&M Software for Offshore Wind Portfolio

    18 November 2021
    Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance

    EDF Renewables has selected UK technology company Sennen to deliver a software system that will improve the operational efficiency and safety of its global offshore wind projects. Under a five-year contract, Sennen will deliver new technology which will enable EDF Renewables to manage operations across its offshore wind project portfolio in France and United Kingdom […]

  • Floating Turbines Receive Boost at RenewableUK’s Event

    12 June 2013
    Authorities

    RenewableUK has heralded new announcements planned today which will bring floating turbines a step closer to UK waters and open up the possibility of further developments. At RenewableUK’s Offshore Wind conference in Manchester, the Crown Estate, the managers of the seabed, will announce a new offshore wind leasing round for innovative structures. This is to […]

  • Largest UK Offshore Wind Tower Factory Gathering Construction Team

    21 February 2022
    Contracts & Tenders

    Metec Group (Metec), a South Tyneside manufacturing company, has been awarded a six-figure offshore contract to supply and install a 30-year cathodic protection system for what’s set to be “the largest offshore wind tower factory in the UK”. The company will produce around 400 sacrificial anodes for the development of the new quay in Cromarty […]

  • Amazon Reveals Offshore Wind Play in UK

    19 April 2021
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Amazon has announced nine new utility-scale wind and solar energy projects including a 350 MW offshore wind farm off the east coast of Scotland. The US technology company said that the wind farm is Amazon’s largest in the UK. The project is also the largest corporate renewable energy deal announced by any company in the […]

  • Scotland Makes Last Minute Push for Green Investment Bank

    23 February 2012
    Authorities

    Energy Minister Fergus Ewing yesterday met with members of Edinburgh’s Green Investment Bank Group in a last-minute push to secure the bank for the city. After his meeting he went to the Scottish Parliament to open a debate in support of the city’s bid for the bank. There is already cross party consensus on the […]

  • Bottlenecks Loom Unless Installation Vessels Keep Pace with Super-Sized Wind Turbines – Report

    2 February 2022
    Vessels

    Offshore wind turbines are growing in size as technology advances and demand for renewable energy soars but installing them could be a headache for operators as demand will outpace the supply of capable vessels by 2024, Rystad Energy research shows. Operators will have to invest in new vessels or upgrade existing ones to install the […]

  • ABPmer to Back Scottish Deep Water Renewables Plan

    23 January 2018
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders

    Marine Scotland has awarded a contract to ABPmer to prepare the necessary scoping documents to support the development of floating wind and/ or other possible deep water technologies in Scottish waters. 

  • BiFab Gets a Lifeline as Canadians Take Majority Share

    17 April 2018
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    Canadian company JV Driver, through its subsidiary DF Barnes, has acquired BiFab as part of an agreement brokered by the Scottish Government to support new opportunities at BiFab’s renewables and marine fabrication and construction yards in the UK.

  • Siemens Nabs Moray East Grid Link Contract

    6 December 2018
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Siemens has secured an order to connect the 950MW Moray East offshore wind farm to the Scottish grid.

  • UK: ROVOP Named Promising New Business

    22 June 2012

    Fast-growing energy company ROVOP has won a top industry accolade after being named Promising New Business at last night’s (Thursday, June 21) 2012 Grampian Awards for Business Enterprise awards ceremony. Within just a year of its inception, ROVOP has successfully carved out a niche for itself as an independent company providing specialist, rapid response ROV […]

  • OHT to Transport UAE-Made Moray East Jackets

    23 September 2019
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    DEME Offshore has awarded Norway’s OHT with a contract to transport 48 jacket foundations for the Moray East offshore wind farm from the United Arab Emirates to Scotland. OHT will transport the 45 wind turbine jackets and three offshore transformer module (OTM) jackets from Lamprell’s fabrication yard in the UAE to the Port of Nigg in […]

  • TFKable and VolkerInfra Land Moray East Cable Contract

    29 January 2019
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    The TFKable Group and VolkerInfra have won a contract to provide the onshore high voltage cable for the 950MW Moray East offshore wind farm in Scotland. Siemens is in charge of connecting the offshore wind farm to the Scottish grid. TFKable Group’s HV production plant in Bydgoszcz, Poland will manufacture the 220kV cable, with the production […]

  • Serious Complaint Against UK and Scottish Government

    22 August 2012
    Authorities

     In respect of the Scottish Government’s target based renewable energy programme, a serious complaint has been filed to hold both the UK and the Scottish Government to account via the United Nations. It should be appreciated that both the EU and the UK are now being held to account by the United Nations Economic Commission […]

  • UK: Repsol, EDPR Submit Consent Application for Inch Cape

    5 July 2013

    Inch Cape Offshore Limited (ICOL), the joint venture partnership formed between Repsol Nuevas Energias UK Limited (Repsol) (51%) and EDP Renováveis SA (EDPR) (49%) announced that it had submitted consent applications to Marine Scotland to develop an offshore wind farm and transmission assets in the outer Firth of Tay, as part of The Crown Estate […]

  • Moray Offshore Renewables Releases Report on Project Development (UK)

    24 November 2011

    At a media briefing in Inverness, Moray Offshore Renewables Ltd published a report detailing the work it has undertaken over the past year to develop plans for 1 500MW offshore wind generation in the Outer Moray Firth. The power will be generated by offshore wind turbines, capable of delivering up to 7MW each,. These utilise […]

  • Moray East Onshore Cable Work Done

    9 November 2020
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Work to install the onshore cable which will connect the 950 MW Moray East offshore wind farm to the Scottish grid has ended, Siemens Energy said. The onshore cable, which starts near Banff, Aberdeenshire, takes the power generated offshore from the three 220kV subsea cables, and transmits it to the new onshore substation at New […]