2874 results found for 'Hywind Scotland'

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  • Ocean Winds Opens Moray West O&M Base in Scotland

    10 September 2024
    Operations & Maintenance

    Ocean Winds has opened its new operations & maintenance (O&M) base in Buckie, Scotland, that will service the Moray West offshore wind farm once it becomes fully operational in 2025. The First Minister of Scotland, John Swinney, visited the facility on 9 September to mark the opening of the Ocean Winds’ O&M base with associated […]

  • Siemens Books Nigg Energy Park for Beatrice Project

    15 June 2016
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    Global Energy Group and Siemens have signed a contract for the use of Nigg Energy Park fabrication yard on the Cromarty Firth during the construction of the 588MW Beatrice offshore wind farm. This multi million pound contract award is scheduled to commence in the spring of 2018 with every likelihood of retaining and creating in excess of […]

  • UK Offshore Wind Generation on the Rise in 2017 Q2

    29 September 2017

    In the second quarter of 2017, offshore wind generation in the United Kingdom increased by 22 percent or 0.7TWh to 4.0TWh in comparison to the same period in 2016.

  • Buchan Wraps Up Offshore Site Investigations for 1 GW Scottish Floater

    15 November 2023
    Floating Wind, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Buchan Offshore Wind, a consortium comprising BayWa r.e., Elicio, and BW Ideol, has completed offshore site investigations for the 1 GW floating wind farm in Scotland. Ocean Infinity, who commenced the surveying process for Buchan Offshore Wind in April this year, used the Normand Superior vessel to conclude the survey with cone penetration tests on […]

  • Environment Secretary Richard Lochhead launches consultation at the All Energy (UK)

    19 May 2010
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    Ambitious plans for the development of offshore wind energy projects in Scotland took a significant step forward today. The Scottish Government launched a 12 week consultation detailing draft plans to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and realise Scotland’s multi-billion pound potential in renewables. The Strategic Environmental Assessment and Development Plan for Offshore Wind sets out […]

  • SDI to Present Scottish Offshore Wind Industry in Frankfurt, Germany

    14 November 2013

    This year, Scottish Development International (SDI) will be present at the EWEA conference in Frankfurt with 24 Scottish companies, representing the entire value chain of the offshore wind industry. SDI will present products, technologies and services from Scotland at the Scottish National Pavilion at Stand 30C10. The country is leading in the area of renewable […]

  • Thumbs up for European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (UK)

    30 January 2012

    Aberdeenshire Council has given the offshore wind farm proposal near Aberdeenshire the thumbs up. The proposal, as well as the details of all project related concerns will be sent to the body that manages Scotland’s waters, Marine Scotland. Vattenfall, Technip and Aberdeen Renewable Energy Group (AREG), a GBP 150 million joint venture behind the cutting […]

  • Scotland’s Renewable Energy Investment Fund Opens for Business

    10 October 2012
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    A multi-million pound renewable energy investment fund (REIF), geared to stimulating greater levels of private finance into innovative green power and renewable district heating projects in Scotland, was opened for business by First Minister Alex Salmond today. As senior figures from green energy, finance and government gathered in Edinburgh for the Scottish Low Carbon Investment […]

  • Floating LiDAR Deployed at Stromar Wind Project Site Offshore Scotland

    15 September 2023
    Floating Wind, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    A floating Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) buoy has been launched at the Stromar floating wind farm site offshore Scotland. The E38 EOLOS LiDAR was deployed at the Stromar site off the coast of Caithness, approximately 50 kilometres from the Port of Wick on 8 September. Equipped with fully independent and remote sensing devices, the […]

  • RSPB Scotland Objects Offshore Wind Farm Offshore Aberdeen (UK)

    1 November 2011

      RSPB Scotland has objected to proposals for an offshore wind farm near Aberdeen. A planning application for an 11-turbine wind farm off Abe… (bbc) [mappress] Source: bbc, November 01, 2011

  • Scots Approve Pentland Offshore Planning Application

    7 December 2022
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    The offshore consent application for the 100 MW Pentland Floating Offshore Wind Farm (PFOWF) has been approved by the Highland Council’s North Planning committee. A majority of Councillors agreed that no objection should be raised in relation to the applications under s36 of the Electricity Act and under s20 of the Marine (Scotland) Act as […]

  • Geotechnical Investigation Contract Awarded for 3 GW Scottish Floating Wind Project

    20 September 2023
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Floating Wind, Project Updates, Supply Chain

    Geoquip Marine has secured a contract to gather engineering data to support a proposed floating offshore wind project in Scotland that is being developed by ScottishPower and Shell. To support the MarramWind project, Geoquip Marine is set to perform a complete geotechnical investigation to gather soil and geotechnical data for developing an engineering ground model. According to […]

  • 2 GW Scottish Offshore Wind Project Advances with Onshore Planning Application

    7 November 2023
    Authorities, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The consortium behind the West of Orkney Windfarm, comprising Corio Generation, TotalEnergies, and Renewable Infrastructure Development Group (RIDG), has submitted an onshore planning application to the Highland Council for onshore works for the 2 GW offshore wind farm. The onshore application provides detailed information on the proposed cable landfills on the North Caithness coast, the […]

  • Atmos Consulting Joins Seagreen Roster

    4 February 2020
    Environment, Wind Farm Update

    Atmos Consulting is tasked with monitoring contractor compliance with environmental safeguards on the offshore wind farm.

  • UK: SNP MSP Responds to Offshore Wind Sector Attack

    10 August 2012

    Scottish MEP Struan Stevenson’s recent attack on offshore wind energy sector has been categorised as an attack on jobs and investment by the SNP MSP John Wilson, who is the deputy convener of the Economy, Energy and Tourism Committee. Namely, yesterday at a meeting organised by Communities Against Turbines Scotland (CATS) in Girvan, Ayrshire, Mr […]

  • Spanish-Japanese Company Plans 500 MW Floating Wind Project in Scotland

    7 May 2021
    Business & Finance

    A Spanish-Japanese company has unveiled plans for a 500 MW floating wind farm in the North East of Scotland and is now looking for a financial partner to develop and build the project. The company, with head offices in Madrid and Tokyo, announced on 5 May that it had begun the process of searching for […]

  • Scottish Energy Minister Unveils GBP 103 Million for Renewable Energy

    22 March 2012
    Business & Finance

    Energy Minister Fergus Ewing has today announced a new £103 million investment fund which will drive the growth of renewable energy in Scotland for generations. The Renewable Energy Investment Fund (REIF) will initially focus on supporting communities and rural businesses to develop their own local renewable projects, on supporting district heating, and on supporting wave […]

  • Wood Thilsted Wins Work on 2 GW Caledonia Offshore Wind Project

    19 August 2024
    Contracts & Tenders, Supply Chain

    Caledonia Offshore Windfarm has selected the engineering consultancy Wood Thilsted to develop the structural concept design for the 2 GW project’s turbine foundations. The Caledonia offshore wind farm is being developed in the Moray Firth by Ocean Winds and is scheduled to be operational by 2030. Wood Thilsted will use the ground and metocean data […]

  • Cenos Floating Wind Project to Perform Surveys to Revalidate NorthConnect Data from 2017

    6 March 2024
    Floating Wind, Grid Connection, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The developers of the 1.4 GW Cenos floating offshore wind project in Scotland are set to run a nearshore survey campaign in March to revalidate data collected in 2017 by NorthConnect, an interconnector project whose infrastructure Cenos planned to use to connect to the grid. Starting on 11 March, the export cable corridor surveys will […]

  • Report Shows 11,000 Scottish Jobs in Renewable Energy Industry

    27 March 2012
    Jobs & Recruitment, Training & Education

    A major report by Scottish Renewables has revealed more than 11,000 jobs in the renewable energy industry in Scotland. The study ‘Delivering the Ambition: employment in renewable energy in Scotland’, which will be launched at the Scottish Renewables Annual Conference in Edinburgh (27 March), is the first comprehensive assessment of full-time equivalent posts in Scotland […]

  • Boskalis Installs First Moray West Offshore Substation Platform

    19 December 2023
    Fixed-Bottom, Grid Connection, Offshore Platforms, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Boskalis’ DP installation vessel Bokalift 1 has installed the first offshore substation platform (OSP) at the Moray West offshore wind farm site in Scotland. The heavy lift operations in the Port of Nigg and on-site were completed safely and successfully, according to the developer Ocean Winds. As offshore commissioning starts, the previously laid export cable […]

  • Onshore Scoping Report Submitted for 1 GW Scottish Offshore Wind Farm

    11 September 2024
    Authorities, Fixed-Bottom, Grid Connection, Onshore Infrastructure, Planning & Permitting

    Thistle Wind Partners (TWP) has submitted an onshore scoping report to Aberdeenshire Council for the onshore infrastructure associated with its 1 GW Bowdun offshore wind farm in Scotland. The report provides information on the proposed onshore infrastructure and further outlines the approach to the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), including baseline data sources. Located 44 kilometres […]

  • Scottish Renewables Respons to Trump’s Anti-wind Letters (UK)

    10 February 2012

      In response to a letter sent by Donald Trump to the First Minister regarding offshore wind, Niall Stuart, Chief Executive of Scottish Renewables, said:  “Who is Donald Trump to tell Scotland what is good for our economy and our environment?  “Offshore wind is already attracting billions of pounds of investment and supporting hundreds of […]

  • Survey Starting at Scottish Floating Offshore Wind Project

    8 July 2022
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    A geophysical and environmental survey is set to soon commence at the Salamander floating offshore wind project off the coast of Scotland in the North Sea. The geophysical survey and benthic drop-down video and grab survey activities are expected to commence on 26 July at the earliest and run until 30 September at the latest, […]

  • New Contracts Awarded for 1 GW Floating Wind Project Offshore Scotland

    7 July 2023
    Contracts & Tenders

    The developers behind the Buchan floating offshore wind project, have awarded a series of contracts worth more than GBP 1.5 million to three Scottish companies. The 1 GW Buchan floating offshore wind project is being developed by the Floating Energy Allyance, a consortium comprising BW Ideol, Elicio, and BayWa r.e., which secured the rights for the project […]

  • Offshore Wind Developers Answer Scotland’s Call for Innovation, Oil and Gas Decarbonisation

    13 December 2022
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders, Environment, Industry, R&D, Technology

    Crown Estate Scotland has received a total of 19 applications for its Innovation and Targeted Oil and Gas (INTOG) offshore wind leasing process.   This level of interest from industry demonstrates significant support for this exciting new opportunity, the Scottish seabed manager said.   INTOG aims to help decarbonise the North Sea oil and gas […]