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  • IMCA Applauds UK Extending Offshore Wind Immigration Rules Concession

    5 September 2017
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Vessels

    The International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) has welcomed the one-year extension by the UK Home Office of the concession to UK immigration rules concerning workers joining vessels engaged in the construction and maintenance of offshore wind projects.

  • UK: HiDef to Take Part in Global Offshore Wind Show

    21 May 2012

    HiDef will be exhibiting at the first Global Offshore Wind Show to be held in London’s Excel Centre on 13th and 14th June. Stand 233. HiDef Managing Director John Martin commented: “There are so many nations now contemplating offshore wind that it makes sense to have a global show. HiDef have invested in our largest […]

  • UK Launches GBP 20 Million Marine Energy Array Demonstrator Scheme

    5 April 2012
    Authorities

    Government has today launched its eagerly awaited £20 million Marine Energy Array Demonstrator scheme (MEAD). This scheme will support up to 2 pre-commercial projects to demonstrate the operation of wave and/or tidal devices in array formation over a period of time. Organisations across the UK will be able to bid for a share of the […]

  • FoundOcean Completes Grouting at Nordsee Ost

    3 April 2014
    Wind Farm Update

    On Friday 14th March 2014, it was confirmed that FoundOcean had completed grouting operations on the 48th turbine, of RWE Innogy’s 295 MW capacity Nordsee Ost Offshore Wind Farm. The wind farm is located 35 kilometres north-east of the island of Helgoland in the German North Sea and sits in water depths of up to […]

  • Rhenus Offshore Logistics Moves Closer to UK Offshore Wind Action

    3 August 2016
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Rhenus Offshore Logistics, a Germany-headquartered offshore logistics company and part of Rhenus Group has set up its first UK office at Lowestoft to be closer to the UK’s thriving offshore wind industry. The company is among the latest tenants of the OrbisEnergy innovation and incubation centre. The move is expected Rhenus Offshore Logistics to expand its services to the growing […]

  • ‘Millennium Falcon’ Measures Tidal, Wave Energy Effect on Marine Habitat

    6 February 2015
    R&D, Technology

    Researchers from the University of Washington (UW) are building a new underwater robot named “Millennium Falcon”. The robot will deploy instruments to gather information in unprecedented detail about how marine life interacts with underwater equipment used to harvest wave and tidal energy. Researchers still don’t fully understand how animals and fish will be affected by ocean […]

  • EDP Opens Moray East O&M Base in Scotland

    22 October 2021
    Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    EDP has inaugurated the operations and maintenance center of the 950 MW Moray East offshore wind farm, which will now be controlled by this new infrastructure located in Fraserburgh Port, Scotland. This new operations and maintenance center will now manage this offshore wind farm, in particular by controlling the vessel ‘Alba’, which regularly spends two-week […]

  • 500 MW for Statkraft and CIP in First Irish Offshore Wind Auction

    11 May 2023
    Authorities, Business development, Research & Development

    Statkraft and its partner Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) have been selected in Ireland’s first auction for offshore wind under the Renewable Electricity Support Scheme (ORESS-1) to develop the 500 MW North Irish Sea Array (NISA) offshore wind project. NISA was one of seven offshore renewable projects issued with a Maritime Area Consent (MAC) last December. […]

  • RenewableUK: Ofgem’s Warning Highlights Need for Renewables

    19 February 2013

    RenewableUK says comments by the Chief Executive of the energy watchdog Ofgem about the need to protect the nation’s future energy supplies serve to highlight the case for clearer Government support for renewable energy. Ofgem CEO Alistair Buchanan said the closure of old fossil fuel plants in the UK, and tightening global demand for imported […]

  • Port of Wilhelmshaven: Fit for the future

    16 August 2012
    Ports & Logistics

    Germany’s ambition is to have 2.500 turbines installed in its territorial waters in the North and Baltic Seas by 2030. This means that on an average of 250 turbines will have to be produced and installed each year. This cannot be handled by one port alone and therefore several German ports are now trying to […]

  • USA: 75.8 Pct of North Carolinians Support Offshore Wind Energy

    6 March 2013
    Ports & Logistics, R&D

    North Carolinians overwhelmingly support the increased use of clean energy sources like solar or wind energy, according to poll results released on February 28 by the NC Sustainable Energy Association. A recent statewide public opinion survey conducted by Fallon Research found that 75.7% of Republicans, 89% of Democrats, and 81.6% of Independents (82.6% overall) said […]

  • Global Ocean Energy Prospects Boosted by Established Wind and Hydro Players (USA)

    20 October 2010
    Business & Finance

    The global ocean energy sector is at a turning point, with over 45 wave and tidal prototypes expected to be ocean tested in 2010 and 2011, after only a dozen were installed in 2009, according to a new IHS Emerging Energy Research market study. If these initial projects are successful, the global ocean energy project […]

  • Heerema’s Thialf Lowers Baltic Eagle Topside Into Place

    23 February 2023
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Heerema Marine Contractors has installed the offshore substation topside for Iberdrola’s Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm in Germany. The substation topside, which was completed last month, was installed by Heerema Marine Contractors’ semi-submersible crane vessel (SSCV) Thialf. The jacket foundation had been placed on the construction site in October 2022. The installation involved the heaviest lifting […]

  • UK: Smit Constructor Completes Undersea Works at Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm

    13 March 2012
    Wind Farm Update

    A stalwart vessel of the Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm fleet has left the Greater Wash after reaching another project milestone, the completion of the undersea works to prepare the site for the installation of the cables that transport the power generated by the wind turbines. The 77m vessel Smit Constructor has been home and […]

  • Abengoa and Wavebob Team Up on Development of Wave Energy Systems (Ireland)

    23 March 2011
    Business & Finance

    Ocean wave power company Wavebob and the international company that applies innovative technology solutions to sustainable development in the energy and environment sectors, Abengoa, announced a planned collaboration which will see the two companies working together on the research, development and commercialization of wave energy systems. Considered one of the world’s leading wave energy technologies, […]

  • Dron & Dickson Targets Renewables Market from Hull

    10 June 2014
    Business & Finance, Technology

    Dron & Dickson, specialists in design, supply and maintenance of hazardous area electrical equipment, has appointed a new sales manager to oversee its Hull operation. Robert Courtney, who joined Dron & Dickson as a sales coordinator at its Aberdeen office in 2013, has been promoted to the role of sales manager at the Hull branch. […]

  • SGN Working on World’s First Offshore Wind-Powered Hydrogen Heating Project

    15 July 2020
    Business & Finance, Technology

    The UK gas network operator SGN has launched a project that will be world-first to employ a direct supply of offshore wind power to produce green hydrogen energy for heating. The project will start with heating around 300 homes in Fife, Scotland, using clean gas produced by an electrolysis plant, powered by the offshore wind […]

  • East Anglia ONE O&M Base Opens in Lowestoft

    18 October 2019
    Operations & Maintenance, Ports & Logistics

    ScottishPower Renewables has opened the new operations and maintenance building for the 714MW East Anglia ONE offshore wind farm at the Port of Lowestoft, UK. Located at Associated British Port’s Hamilton Dock, the O&M building is part of a GBP 25 million investment made by ScottishPower Renewables into the Port of Lowestoft. The site is now the […]

  • Ørsted and Eversource Setting Up Offshore Wind O&M Hub on Long Island

    24 November 2020
    Operations & Maintenance

    Sunrise Wind has purchased a facility in Suffolk County, New York, that will serve as the regional Operations and Maintenance (O&M) hub the offshore wind joint venture between Ørsted and Eversource. Located in East Setauket, the Town of Brookhaven, the Research Way O&M facility will also be used to help support the joint venture’s portfolio […]

  • Hamburg Messe und Congress Regrets Failure of Talks with Husumer Wirtschaftsgesellschaft (Germany)

    19 September 2012

    Hamburg Messe und Congress GmbH (HMC) regrets the failure of the talks with Husumer Wirtschaftsgesellschaft mbH (HWG) which sought to achieve agreement on procedure for organisation of a wind energy fair. “Right up to the last minute we had been hoping for an agreement,” said Bernd Aufderheide, President and CEO of Hamburg Messe und Congress […]

  • In Wind Industry Every Day is Different (Denmark)

    7 February 2011
    Training & Education

    Over 200,000 people make the European wind industry tick. Who are they and what exactly do they do? Wind Directions met some ’wind workers’ to find out. Martin Mortensen spends most of the year out of his home country, Denmark. A commissioning engineer with Suzlon for nearly 11 years, Mortensen’s job involves starting up the […]

  • Glomar Wave Wraps Up Rentel Wire Works

    27 November 2017
    Grid Connection, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Glomar Offshore’s multi-purpose DP2 subsea support vessel Glomar Wave has executed a project for GeoSea on the Rentel offshore wind farm in the Belgian North Sea.

  • Kinewell Energy: KLOC Cuts Cable Costs and Electrical Losses

    28 January 2016
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology

    Kinewell Energy has re-designed an existing offshore wind farm in a case study which demonstrated that its new software, KLOC, could have saved the developers 3% of the installed cable cost had the technology been available when the wind farm was designed. The North East of England based company used the 576 MW Gwynt-y-mor in the case study. The software […]

  • Siemens Receives Walney Extension Order

    28 October 2015

    With the final investment decision for the Walney Extension project in place, Siemens has received its first order for the new 7MW offshore wind turbine. The company will supply, install and commission 47 direct drive wind turbines in the Walney Extension East project in the Irish Sea. The order is part of the frame agreement concluded between […]

  • RSPB Challenges Scottish Offshore Wind

    13 January 2015
    Environment

    The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) has launched a legal challenge against approval of four wind farms off Scottish coast. Namely, the Scottish part of the wildlife charity is seeking a judicial review against Inch Cape, Neart na Gaoithe and Seagreen Alpha and Bravo, claiming they could have serious implications for the wildlife in […]

  • Scotland: Energy Minister Welcomes Audit Scotland Findings

    12 September 2013
    Authorities

    Commenting on today’s Audit Scotland report Fergus Ewing said:  “Today, I welcome the findings of this report which shows that strong and strategic leadership from this government within the renewable sector is key to the successes to date.  “No government since devolution has embarked on such an ambitious programme of investment to transform our renewable […]