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  • 18 June 2014
    Authorities

    Wirral Council has launched a new campaign aimed at securing major, global investment into the borough from two growing sectors. The campaign, “Wirral – Ready, Now”, is targeting key businesses within the supply chains of the automotive and offshore wind and renewable energy sectors. The automotive industry in the UK is booming, and is the […]

  • 9 July 2014

    The trade association representing the wind and marine energy industries, RenewableUK, has welcomed announcement by The Crown Estate of further opportunities to develop the UK’s wave and tidal resources. The Crown Estate, which manages the UK’s seabed, has announced 6 new wave and tidal stream demonstration zones, as well as 5 new wave and tidal […]

  • 10 May 2012

    Jonathan Cawley from West Coast Energy has been appointed the new chairman of RenewableUK Cymru, the trade and professional body for the wind and marine renewables industries in Wales. He is currently planning and development manager at Mold-based West Coast Energy where he is responsible for overseeing the company’s interests in Wales. He is a […]

  • 30 September 2014
    Grid Connection

    Jee Ltd, a leading independent multi-discipline subsea engineering and training firm, has been awarded a contract from Scottish Enterprise to develop subsea electrical array cable solutions for tidal energy installations. The contract is part of a pioneering study for the marine energy industry in Scotland, and will see Jee develop solutions for locating, securing, protecting […]

  • 20 January 2011
    Business & Finance

    Siemens and Associated British Ports (ABP) have announced today (20 January) that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding in connection with ABP’s proposed Green Port Hull development at Alexandra Dock, Port of Hull. The parties have agreed to work together to develop plans for the construction of a new Siemens offshore wind turbine manufacturing […]

  • 21 February 2012

    Ocean Power Technologies Ltd (“OPT”), a leading wave energy technology company, announces its support for the key conclusions of the UK’s Energy and Climate Change Select Committee report on the future of marine renewables in the UK. The Report’s key recommendations include: A formal cost of energy target of 14p/kWh by 2020 is adopted to […]

  • 19 November 2012

    The RYA is concerned that leases for tidal energy projects at sites around the UK confirmed by the Crown Estate on 14 November, have been granted with no specific planning parameters that reference the safety of navigation for coastal mariners. Stuart Carruthers, RYA Cruising Manager: “We are disappointed that the Crown Estate has leased the […]

  • 11 December 2012

    Aberdeen Harbour Board has submitted a Directions for Growth document to the National Planning Framework, in response to its call for candidate developments. The document outlines the findings from an ongoing feasibility study, which was launched in September to assess the viability of potential expansion options for a new or improved harbour facility. Three potential […]

  • 26 July 2021
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    A joint venture between Cobra Instalaciones y Servicios and Flotation Energy has revealed its plan to apply for development consent to build offshore wind farms in Ireland, once the country’s new legislative framework is in place. Offshore Wind Ltd (OWL) plans to build one wind farm, called Greystones, in the waters off the Irish coast […]

  • 15 October 2012
    R&D, Technology

    The Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology (IMarEST) will be exhibiting at RenewableUK’s 34th Annual Conference & Exhibition being held in Glasgow on 30 October – 1 November. As a supporting organisation of the long-running event, organised by the trade and professional body for the wind and marine energy industries, the Institute is looking […]

  • 22 March 2022
    Wind Farm Update

    The UK’s total pipeline of offshore wind projects now stands at 86 GW, more than eight times the UK’s current operational capacity, according to statistics published by RenewableUK on 22 March. This represents a 60 per cent increase over the past 12 months, driven mainly by massive leasing round announcements by The Crown Estate (8 […]

  • 6 June 2013
    Business & Finance

    IBERDROLA has allocated some €25,000 million to developing economically sustainable renewable energies in the last decade. This is the highest figure ever invested by a company in this field. With over 200 wind farms in Spain and 330 elsewhere in the world, these investments mean that the company now has a renewable installed capacity of […]

  • 12 October 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, R&D, Technology

    Environmental Resources Management (ERM), the developer of the Dolphyn technology, has awarded a Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) contract to Principle Power for a 10 MW floating wind-to-hydrogen demonstration project in Scotland. The ERM Dolphyn concept employs a modular design integrating electrolysis and a wind turbine on a moored floating semi-submersible platform which uses Principle Power’s […]

  • 23 May 2016
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    The GBP 2.6 billion Beatrice Offshore Windfarm Ltd (BOWL) project has been given the green light for construction by owners SSE, Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) and SDIC Power after the project reached financial close. The 588MW, 84 turbine project, situated in the Outer Moray Firth, was consented by the Scottish government in March 2014 and granted an […]

  • 12 May 2020
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    Danish offshore support specialist Esvagt has contributed to an economic rescue package for the Havyard shipyard, the builder of the company’s next three Service Operation Vessels (SOVs), and has accepted a delay in delivery. The delay in the delivery was caused by the Norwegian shipbuilder experiencing ”financial whirlwinds” , Esvagt said. Offshore WIND reached out […]

  • 25 November 2010

    Draka announces that it has been awarded the array cabling contract for the Baltic 2 offshore wind farm from Visser & Smit Marine Contracting. The Baltic 2 contract, valued at approximately € 23 million requires Draka to deliver approximately 95 kilometers of 36kV subsea power cable for use in the project. The first delivery on […]

  • 25 December 2012
    Grid Connection

    Part of the SSE energy group, Scottish Hydro Electric Transmission, announced that they will delay the grid connection between Orkney and Shetland until 2018, reports BBC. This announcement raises questions over the Scottish government’s Saltire Prize which was created to accelerate the commercial development of wave and tidal energy technology. This competition will run from […]

  • 27 June 2016
    Technology

    A new design of floating turbine has been demonstrated as the collaboration behind it says it is nearing readiness for a full commercial test. The TLPWIND project, led by Iberdrola Engineering & Construction (IEC) with project partners the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult and the University of Strathclyde, saw the development of a Tension Leg Platform (TLP) […]

  • 6 October 2020
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Environment, Jobs & Recruitment, Operations & Maintenance, Ports & Logistics, Technology

    UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has set out commitments to ensure that offshore wind will produce more than enough electricity to power every home in the country by 2030, based on current electricity usage, boosting the government’s previous 30 GW target to 40 GW. The commitments, part of the Build Back Greener initiative, also include […]

  • 2 November 2017
    Vessels

    One of SSI Energy’s HSE Offshore Medics, who are often trained technicians working as part of a maintenance team, is now permanently based on the Bibby Wavemaster 1 vessel, supporting the works on the Galloper offshore wind farm in the UK.

  • 24 June 2011

    As reported in the latest edition of “Pictures of the Future”, Siemens is also turning to tidal power as it strives to exploit alternative forms of energy. The company has recently secured a stake in SeaGen, the world’s first commercial power plant to generate electricity from tidal energy. Commissioned in 2008, the 1.2 MW plant […]

  • 21 July 2011
    Authorities

    Business Secretary Vince Cable has today toured Alexandra Dock where Siemens plans to build an £80 million wind turbine factory which will create 700 jobs, expected to be operational by 2014. Under the development plan Associated British Ports (ABP) will build a £100 million deepwater berth capable of handling the new generation of large offshore […]

  • 12 September 2012
    R&D

    Finnish wave energy developer, Wello Ltd, has on September the 11th released further test results of the Penguin wave energy converter installed in Orkney, Scotland. The Penguin wave energy converter survived first heavy storms in Orkney when the device was battered with over 12 meters waves. Even the mooring system appeared to work as designed. Additional […]

  • 3 November 2015
    Business & Finance, R&D, Technology

    CorPower, a developer of a wave energy converter inspired by the pumping principles of the human heart, has completed a €6.5M funding round, thus securing a critical investment for the next stage of the company’s development and allowing for the third round of testing of its wave energy technology, called the HiWave. Results from the second stage of HiWave […]

  • 22 November 2011

    Leading Dutch offshore energy company Bluewater Energy Services has secured a tidal demonstration berth at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) for demonstration of its floating Tidal Energy Converter, BlueTEC. Bluewater has successfully completed its development and design phase including model testing and is now ready to enter the market with a full scale demonstration […]

  • 25 July 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Offshore wind developer Ocean Winds has awarded the partnership between Navantia Seanergies and Windar Renovables with a contract to manufacture and deliver 14 monopiles for the Moray West wind farm in Scotland. This contract will be the first order executed in the new XXL monopile factory that Navantia and Windar are building in the Fene […]