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  • UK: Eden Rose Joins Tidal Transit Windfarm Service Vessel Fleet

    10 April 2012

    Eden Rose, the second of Tidal Transit’s fleet of windfarm service vessels, was launched on 30 March 2012 by its Spanish boat builder, Mercurio Plastics. Like its sister Ginny Louise, it is a state-of-the-art, purpose designed vessel for use by companies involved in the planning, development and construction of offshore wind farms in the Greater […]

  • USA: Maryland Senate Fails to Pass Offshore Wind Bill

    10 April 2012

    Executive Director of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, Mike Tidwell, released the statement regarding the Maryland Senate not voting for O’Malley’s offshore wind bill. “In the face of increasingly extreme weather linked to climate change and in light of new studies showing Maryland is outrageously vulnerable to sea-level rise, it is totally unacceptable that the […]

  • USA: Minority Business Owners and Civic Leaders Support Offshore Wind Bill

    6 April 2012
    Authorities, Ports & Logistics

    In anticipation of the much favoured adoption of the offshore wind Bill in the Senate Finance Committee, minority business owners and civic leaders plan to hold a gathering Friday morning to voice the Bill’s importance and thus pave the way for its passing, the Associated Press reports. It is said that the backers of the […]

  • The Netherlands: Van Oord Records Increased Turnover in Difficult Year

    9 March 2012
    Business & Finance

    Van Oord’s turnover in 2011 was EUR 1,715 million (2010 EUR 1,578 million) and was evenly attributable to activities performed by Van Oord’s divisions and areas. The net profit for 2011 amounted to EUR 118 million (2010: EUR 165 million, including an extraordinary tax gain of EUR 40 million). CEO Pieter van Oord: ‘Given the […]

  • USA: Ocean Renewable Power to Install Power Unit in Cobscook Bay

    7 March 2012

    Ocean Renewable Power Co., a Maine-based tidal energy company, is going to install its first grid-connected power unit in mid-March at a 60-acre site in Cobscook Bay, reports The Huffington Post. Chris Sauer, president and chief executive officer of the Portland-based company, explained that the first unit will have the capacity to power 20 to […]

  • Norway: Inocean Inks Agreement with ABB to Provide Engineering Services

    5 March 2012

    Inocean, a leading Norwegian naval architect company, has signed an agreement with ABB, to set up an engineering services joint venture specializing in offshore wind integration projects. ABB will have a majority shareholding in the new entity, ABB Inocean AB which will be located in Gothenburg, Sweden, a region with a shipbuilding history and recognized […]

  • TINAs Provide Report on Innovation Needs in OW Industry (UK)

    28 February 2012

    Technology Innovation Needs Assessments (TINAs) have provided an independent analysis of innovation… ( read more ) [mappress] Offshore Wind Staff, February  28, 2012

  • USA: Reedsport to Host Ocean Renewable Energy Development

    24 February 2012

    Ocean Policy Advisory Council and the Territorial Sea Plan Working Group will host today a public work session at Umpqua Discovery Center in Reedsport to discuss locations for the ocean renewable energy development, reported The World. Three years ago, the LCDC described wave energy generation with the new addition to the territorial sea plan. The […]

  • UK: Trump Supports Anti-wind Farm Group

    23 February 2012

    While the Scottish Parliament’s economy, energy and tourism committee is considering to invite Donald Trump to give “wind farm evidence“, the US tycoon is giving his support to the anti-wind farm group. The tycoon’s staff, based at Trump Towers in New York, will be working on a daily basis with Communities Against Turbines Scotland (Cats), […]

  • OPT Welcomes Report on Future of Marine Renewables in UK

    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 […]

  • USA: Interior to Assess Energy Potential in Mid- and South Atlantic

    29 March 2012
    Authorities

    As part of President Obama’s all-of-the-above energy strategy, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Director Tommy P. Beaudreau yesterday announced that Interior is taking steps to assess the conventional and renewable energy resource potential in the Mid- and South Atlantic. The draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS), released […]

  • Denmark: Avanti to Present Two Service Lifts at EWEA 2012

    28 March 2012

    Avanti Wind Systems presents two newly developed Service Lifts for wind turbines at the EWEA Convention in Copenhagen from 16th-19th April 2012. The new Pegasus is a Rack and Pinion Service Lift guided by the ladder system in the wind turbine. The lift is pulled up and down through pinions geared by motors on the […]

  • USA: Virginia Approves Offshore Wind Turbine Prototype

    28 March 2012
    Authorities

    Governor McDonnell announced that the Virginia Marine Resources Commission has voted unanimously to approve proposed construction of a 479-foot-tall, five-megawatt wind turbine generator prototype in the lower Chesapeake Bay, three miles off the Eastern Shore town of Cape Charles. The construction of the prototype turbine is scheduled to be completed in late 2013, which would […]

  • Scotland: Vattenfall to Conduct Environmental Assessment for Ocean Energy

    23 March 2012
    Authorities

    Monitoring the environment at sea in a region where waves are usually some five metres high is obviously challenging. That is what Vattenfall plans to do off the coast of the Shetland Islands in Scotland, the site of the company’s first wave-energy farm. The location for the wave energy farm was chosen because of the […]

  • Germany: TenneT Announces Tender for Subsea Cable Surveying Services

    23 March 2012
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection

    TenneT Offshore GmbH has announced the tender for subsea cable surveying services for the Alpha Ventus’ BorWin project. The BorWin Alpha in the North Sea is known as the biggest and most remote offshore wind farm cluster project in the world. For the first time in wind power history, the generated power will be transmitted […]

  • Belgium: Five Grid Initiatives Call for Supergrid Action

    21 March 2012
    Grid Connection

    Five grid initiatives, representing a range of global energy actors, today called on decision makers to accelerate the transition to a pan European electricity infrastructure. At their inaugural conference “Supergrid 2012”, the Friends of the Supergrid today signed a Joint Declaration with representatives of Medgrid, the Renewable Grid Initiative and the Desertec Industrial Initiative as […]

  • UK Event Provides Potential Personnel for Subsea Sector

    15 March 2012

    Business leaders have hailed a high-profile recruitment event for military personnel in Scotland as a resounding success for helping to attract skilled people into the subsea industry. Subsea UK’s flagship event, which was held in Moray in conjunction with Kinloss Skills Partnership, provided the region’s high concentration of ex-military personnel with the opportunity to learn […]

  • UK: TGL Tidal Turbine Passes 200 Megawatt Hours Mark

    13 March 2012
    Technology

    Harnessing the reliable and predictable energy of tidal streams, Tidal Generation Limited has surpassed the 200 megawatt hours (MWh) mark of electrical power generated and fed into the national grid with its 500 kilowatt (kW) tidal turbine prototype, which operates subsea off the Orkney Islands, Scotland. Robert Stevenson, CEO, Tidal Generation Limited said: “We are […]

  • UK: Humber Stimulates Local Businesses to Use Its Opportunities

    16 May 2012
    Business & Finance

    The latest Renewing the Humber conference offered insights to companies in the area, which are searching to identify the Humber opportunities, This is Grimsby news portal reported. Grimsby is already serving the growing needs of the O&M part, with manufacturing, assembly and installation logistics considerations for the larger later round projects, and Able’s Marine Energy […]

  • UK: Energi Coast to Showcase at All-Energy Exhibition

    14 May 2012

    Energi Coast, North East England’s Renewables Group, will be showcasing the region’s integrated offshore renewable supply chain at a major industry exhibition in Aberdeen later this month. All Energy, which takes place on 23 and 24 May, is the UK’s largest renewable energy event. It brings together companies and experts from across the world to […]

  • Spain: Iberdrola Q1 Net Profit Up 0.7 pct

    10 May 2012
    Business & Finance

    IBERDROLA’s first quarter net earnings rose 0.7% to €1,022 million with Ebitda up 4.1% at €2,365 million, driven by international growth and despite a decline in Spain where recent regulatory decisions have had a negative effect. Revenues rose 10% to €9,331 million, while gross margin was up 4.1%. Net operating income (Ebit) rose 1.3% higher […]

  • South Africa: Scientists Need Support for KZN Sea-Power Project

    8 May 2012
    Authorities

    At a workshop to show the eThekwini municipality’s plan to partner US HAE (Hydro Alternative Energy) in building a R 155 million sea-power project off the KwaZulu-Natal coast, scientists said that the research and technological knowledge were available in their country, reported the Iol. Professor Wikus van Niekerk, director of the Centre for Renewable and […]

  • UK: RWE Launches Wind Apprenticeship Programme in Wales

    7 May 2012
    Training & Education

    RWE npower renewables has launched an apprenticeship scheme, the company announced at the Renewables UK Cymru Conference in Cardiff. The First Minister of Wales welcomed the announcement that offers skilled, long-term jobs in the renewables industry for the first time in Wales.  “In March I announced the Welsh government’s commitment to work with business to […]

  • Partrac to Attend RenewableUK Global Offshore Wind Event

    7 May 2012

    Partrac will be exhibiting at the RenewableUK Global Offshore Wind Conference and Exhibition on the 13th and 14th June in London ExCel. It will be exhibiting within the Scottish Pavillion. RenewableUK’s 11th annual offshore conference and exhibition will have a global focus. UK and emerging markets will showcase their strengths and opportunities. Partrac is a marine data acquisition […]

  • UK: E.ON to Install Humber Gateway Onshore Cable

    4 May 2012
    Wind Farm Update

    E.ON is taking the next step in construction of its £736m Humber Gateway wind farm and will soon begin laying the onshore cable, which will be used to connect the offshore turbines to a new onshore substation at Salt End. The wind farm which will be located 8km off the East Yorkshire coast, is due […]

  • UK: Massive Wind Turbines Could ‘Confuse’ Air Traffic Radar

    3 May 2012
    R&D

    Developers of an offshore wind farm project in Moray Firth have examined the environmental impact and found that the turbines may be impossible to differentiate from aircraft on radar screens at the air traffic control centres, according to the Scotsman. The project could also affect evacuation and transfer flights to oil and gas platforms near […]