2915 results found for 'Hywind Scotland'

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  • Scottish Government Awards GBP 7.9 Million Funding to Five Marine Energy Developers

    29 August 2012
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    Five marine energy developers will benefit from £7.9 million funding to further develop testing of new wave and tidal prototypes in the seas around Scotland, Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced. The second round of WATERS (Wave & Tidal Energy: Research, Development & Demonstration Support) funding is to enable Scottish developers and supply chain […]

  • Saipem 7000 Soon to Install Final Seagreen Jackets Offshore Scotland

    16 February 2023
    Wind Farm Update

    Seagreen offshore wind farm has entered the final phases of work after the remaining eight three-legged jacket foundations were loaded onto barges at Global Energy Group’s Port of Nigg in the Highlands of Scotland. Global Port Services, part of Global Energy Group, fulfilled the storage, marshalling, and logistics contracts for the 114 95-metre tall jacket […]

  • Major Funding for Orkney Renewables Projects

    27 March 2015
    Business & Finance, Technology

    An innovative community renewables project in Orkney has received £1.35m from the Scottish Government’s Local Energy Challenge Fund. Orkney Surf ‘n’ Turf will combine electricity from 2 tidal turbines and a wind turbine on Eday, which often produce more power than can be used in the area. The excess electricity will be used to produce […]

  • BP and EnBW Granted Electricity Generation Licences for Two UK Offshore Wind Farms

    13 December 2022
    Wind Farm Update

    BP and EnBW have received electricity generation licences for the Morgan and Mona offshore wind farms in the UK, for which the two companies jointly secured 60-year leases in the UK Round 4 leasing at the beginning of last year. The joint venture partners submitted applications for the licences to the UK’s regulator Ofgem through project companies […]

  • AREG’s Response to Samsung Plans for Fife Wind Farm (UK)

    1 February 2012

    First Minister Alex Salmond yesterday announced that Samsung is to base its first European offshore wind project in Fife in an inward venture worth up to £100m that is expected to create more than 500 jobs in Scotland. The announcement came at the Scottish Offshore Wind and Supply Chain Conference in Aberdeen. Morag McCorkindale, chief […]

  • TotalEnergies & Co’s ScotWind Plan Includes Industrial-Scale Hydrogen Production

    12 October 2021
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    A consortium established by Macquarie’s Green Investment Group (GIG), TotalEnergies, and Renewable Infrastructure Development Group (RIDG) is looking into using the electricity that could be produced by its proposed offshore wind project in Scotland to power the production of green hydrogen on an industrial scale on the island of Flotta in Orkney. If successful, the […]

  • Scotland Already Leads in Cutting Down Offshore Wind Costs

    13 June 2012
    Authorities

    Scotland is leading the way in driving down the costs of offshore wind, Energy Minister Fergus Ewing has told major industry conference. Scotland has a quarter of Europe’s offshore wind capacity and planned offshore wind projects in the country have the potential to produce up to 10GW of electricity by 2020. Speaking at the Global […]

  • Technology Centres Launch INTOG Network to Drive Innovation in Floating Offshore Wind

    28 May 2024
    Business & Finance, Business development, Industry, R&D, Research & Development, Technology

    The Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult and the Net Zero Technology Centre (NZTC) have launched the INTOG Innovation Network, focusing on maximising the impact of commercial, pilot scale, innovative, floating wind projects through the Innovation and Targeted Oil and Gas (INTOG) leasing process. The INTOG leasing round, managed by Crown Estate Scotland, is designed both […]

  • Scottish Renewables Welcomes GBP 15 Million Found Announcement

    29 April 2013

    The announcement of the Scottish Innovative Foundation Technologies Fund by Minister for Energy, Enterprise and Tourism, Fergus Ewing is welcomed by Scottish Renewables. The £15 million fund has been established to help develop deep-water wind turbine foundations in Scotland.  Michael Rieley, Policy Manager at Scottish Renewables said: “The announcement of the Scottish Innovative Foundation Technologies […]

  • UK: Trump Calls First Minister ‘Mad Max’ Over Wind Farm

    13 March 2012

    As part of his struggle against the proposed wind farm off his £1bn luxury golf resort in Aberdeenshire, the US businessman Donald Trump wrote a letter to Mr. Salmond, saying he would be known as “the man who destroyed Scotland.” “Do you want to be known for centuries to come as ‘Mad Alex – the […]

  • Voith Wins Award for World’s First Commercial Wave Power Plant (UK)

    22 December 2011

    Inverness, Scotland: Voith Hydro Wavegen, the Scottish Voith subsidiary for wave energy, has won an award for Outstanding International Achievement in Green Energy. With the award the Scottish Council for Development and Industry (SCDI) recognized the delivery of the world’s first full life commercial wave power plant in Mutriku in Northern Spain. Mutriku’s breakwater now […]

  • Scotland Leads the Way on Renewable Energy Delivery

    6 February 2013
    Authorities, Training & Education

    Scotland’s delivery of devolution and renewable energy development should be a model for other UK Governments to follow, according to a recent study by Robert Gordon University (RGU). The newly published study has shown that Scotland leads the way in renewables deployment across the UK and that independence is a driving force in the growth […]

  • Chinese Delegation Visits Scotland

    27 September 2011

      First Minister Alex Salmond welcomed a senior government and industry delegation from China, led by Vice-Minister Liu Qi of the country’s National Energy Administration (NEA), during a visit to learn more about Scotland’s offshore wind industry. The industry mission, which includes Shi Lishan, NEA Deputy Director General, and leading Chinese utility companies, had an […]

  • Offshore Wind Leaders Ask for Certainty

    2 February 2015
    Business & Finance

    Talk of long-term funding dominated the agenda item at Scottish Renewables’ Offshore Wind and Supply Chain Conference last week, as the sector stands poised for the results of CfD deliberations this month. Discussions about the future of the sector were prompted in part by the upcoming decision on the first CfD allocation round, and in […]

  • Cerulean Reveals 6 GW Floating Offshore Wind Bid Under INTOG Leasing Round

    19 July 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Environment, Jobs & Recruitment, Ports & Logistics, R&D, Technology

    Green energy infrastructure developer Cerulean Winds has revealed it will bid for four seabed lease sites with a combined capacity of 6 GW of floating wind to decarbonise the UK’s oil and gas sector under Crown Estate Scotland’s Innovation and Targeted Oil and Gas (INTOG) leasing round. This scale will remove more emissions quickly, keep […]

  • First Jacket In at Deepest Fixed Bottom Offshore Wind Farm

    11 October 2021
    Ports & Logistics, Wind Farm Update

    The first wind turbine jacket foundation has been installed at the 1.1 GW Seagreen, Scotland’s largest and the world’s deepest, fixed bottom offshore wind farm, SSE Renewables said. Two jackets operated by main contractor Seaway 7 made their way on a barge from Global Energy Group’s Port of Nigg in the Highlands of Scotland to […]

  • Scotland Report Outlines Investment Programmes in Offshore Renewables Sector

    25 June 2012
    Business & Finance

    The Scotland Report 2012 is now available. Entitled ‘Investing in Tomorrow, Working Hard Today’, it outlines investment programmes in key sectors of the Scottish economy such as offshore renewables and marine leisure. The publication of the Scotland Report and the UK Annual Report have been brought forward to ensure that they are available before the […]

  • Ocean Winds Confirms Plan to Use ScotWind Site to Full Capacity

    5 July 2022
    Wind Farm Update

    Ocean Winds (OW), a 50-50 joint venture between EDP Renewables and ENGIE, has confirmed its intent to maximise the developable area of the project site for which it won the development rights in the ScotWind auction. Across the 429-square-kilometre site, Ocean Winds plans to build out its Caledonia offshore wind farm to an installed generation […]

  • Power generated by wind turbines meets demands (Scotland)

    2 September 2010
    R&D

    Power generated by wind turbines has met the demand for electricity in the north and north east of Scotland for the first time.The Press and…   by Emily Thomas (energysavingtrust) [mappress] Source: energysavingtrust, September 02, 2010;

  • CIP Revives Floating Wind Project Offshore Scotland

    18 June 2021
    Authorities, R&D, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Danish fund management company Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) plans to build a floating wind farm with a capacity of up to 100 MW off the coast of Dounreay, Scotland. The demonstrator floating wind project is being brought forward by Highland Wind Limited, a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV), formed with CIP acting as the majority shareholder. […]

  • SSE Consulting Public on 2.3 GW Scottish Offshore Wind Farm

    13 November 2020
    Wind Farm Update

    SSE Renewables has invited residents, businesses, community groups and consultees in Scotland’s East Lothian to have their say regarding the plans for the massive Berwick Bank offshore wind farm and provide initial feedback during the first round of public consultation. The developer is organising an online showcase this month for the public to find out […]

  • World’s Most Powerful Wind Turbines Unleashed Offshore Scotland

    7 September 2018
    Environment, Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    Vattenfall has officially inaugurated the 93.2MW European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC) in Aberdeen Bay, Scotland.

  • Scotland to Give Higher Incentives to Innovative Offshore Wind Projects

    11 June 2013
    Authorities, Business & Finance, R&D, Technology

    Scottish Government will boost its incentives for innovative offshore wind technology through Renewable Obligation Certificates. Next generation, cutting-edge offshore wind turbine projects will receive 2.5 tradable Renewable Obligation Certificates (ROCs), whilst those test projects that aim to develop floating turbines, which are not attached to a foundation, will receive 3.5 ROCs, Bloomberg writes. Energy Minister […]

  • Scotland and England Strive to Create Hub for Offshore Wind Industry

    23 February 2012
    Business & Finance, R&D

    Scotland and England are competing to create hub for $52 billion offshore wind industry. Leith, the port area of the Scottish capital, Edinburgh, and the northeast English coastal town of Hartlepool are striving for an investment worth 150 million-pound ($237 million) from a Spanish wind-turbine maker Gamesa Corp Tecnologica SA. It is estimated that the […]

  • UK/Scotland: ‘Friends of Floating Offshore Wind’ Group Formed

    18 May 2016

    No less than 10 technology developers and associations gathered to found “Friends of Floating Offshore Wind”, a group which will promote the interests of floating offshore wind in Scotland and UK. The group, comprising Pilot Offshore Renewables, Hexicon, RES Offshore, IDEOL, Floating Power Plant, Glosten PelaStar, Principle Power Inc, Atkins, ACS Cobra and GICON, aims at creating favourable conditions for further development of the sector. Global […]

  • Scotland Officially Sets 50% by 2030 Renewables Goal

    21 December 2017
    Authorities, R&D

    Scotland has published a new Energy Strategy setting the country’s goal of reaching 50% of renewable energy by 2030 and increasing the productivity of energy use across the Scottish economy.