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  • Ideol Raises EUR 8 Million, Attracts Familiar Names

    7 June 2017
    Business & Finance

    French floating offshore wind developer Ideol has raised an additional EUR 8 million in financing to boost growth and accelerate international development.

  • Trump’s Politics Unlikely to Halt US Offshore Wind Growth, Says New Bedford Wind Energy Center

    12 May 2017
    Business & Finance

    New Bedford Wind Energy Center today (12 May) published an article on the status of offshore wind energy in the United States, saying that the administration of President Donald Trump, who advocated oil and gas exploration and resurrection of the coal industry throughout the presidential election process, is not likely to stop the growth of the offshore wind industry in the U.S.

  • Matchmaking for Offshore Wind Companies During OEEC

    12 May 2017

    A special international matchmaking event will be organised during the 2017 edition of Offshore Energy, headed by the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN).

  • Langlee Wave Power, Repnaval Shipyard to Develop Wave Power in Canary Islands, Spain

    24 October 2012
    Business & Finance

    Last week, during the EEA Grant Conference arranged by Innovation Norway and CDTI in Bergen, the Norwegian company Langlee Wave Power and Repnaval Shipyard (Zamakona Yards) signed an agreement for the development of wave power in the Canary islands. The two companies will file a common application to the EEA grants for development of renewable […]

  • Top News of the Week Mar 11 – 17, 2013

    18 March 2013

    Seaway Heavy Lifting Wins Third Major Contract for Gwynt y Môr Offshore Wind Farm (UK) Seaway Heavy Lifting (SHL) has won a new contract with Gwynt y Môr Offshore Wind Farm Limited to begin the second half of foundation installation off the North Wales coast.   VIDEO: 3D View of Gwynt y Môr Offshore Wind […]

  • Ireland: Mainstream Closes EUR 100 Million Equity Investment with Marubeni

    4 October 2013
    Business & Finance

    Mainstream Renewable Power today announced the closing of the €100 million equity investment by global Japanese Trading Company Marubeni Corporation. The deal, which was announced in August, has been approved by Mainstream’s shareholders and makes Marubeni the largest institutional investor in Mainstream with a significant minority stake of approximately 25%. Commenting on the closing of […]

  • Bilfinger to Produce Steel Foundations for Polish OWF

    5 December 2013

    The engineering and services group Bilfinger, along with Polish steel construction company Crist and the state-owned investment fund MARS, will together produce steel foundations for offshore wind turbines in Szczecin, Poland. At a celebratory ground-breaking, Poland’s Finance Minister Włodzimierz Karpiński and Member of the Executive Board at Bilfinger Joachim Enenkel signaled the start of construction […]

  • UK: BMT to Design Vessels for BLRT Grupp

    22 May 2012

    BLRT Marketex, a subsidiary of BLRT Grupp AS, and BMT Nigel Gee Ltd (BMT), a subsidiary of BMT Group Ltd, have signed an agreement whereby BMT will provide vessel designs to BLRT Marketex. The relationship has provided immediate success with an outline agreement announced for BLRT Marketex to construct four new 24m highly flexible and […]

  • UK: Hull City Council to Discuss Wind Turbine Factory Plans

    9 May 2012
    Authorities

    A GBP 200 million wind turbine factory plans are to be discussed by Hull City Council, This is Hull and East Riding news portal writes. If the plans are approved they could create about 800 jobs and lead to 10,000 in the renewables supply chain and support services. Last year in December, Associated British Ports […]

  • Shell Opposes to UK Offshore Wind Revolution

    1 May 2012

    Shell, a group of energy and petrochemicals companies, will not take David Cameron’s side in attracting private sector investment into the North Sea wind revolution, reported Guardian. The company said that the current economics of wind power did not pile up. The company’s finance director Simon Henry said that his company was spending USD 6 billion on alternative […]

  • Switzerland: New Energy Partnering Congress 2012

    30 April 2012

    Everyone who’s anyone in the renewable energy market will come together again this year at New Energy Partnering Congress. At this high-quality B2B event, utilities, banks, investment firms, pension funds and insurance companies from across Europe will be on the lookout for interesting investment opportunities. Developers will have the chance to make their wind, solar […]

  • Switzerland: ABB Appoints New Member of Executive Committee

    5 April 2012

    ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has appointed Prith Banerjee to its Executive Committee in the role of Chief Technology Officer. Banerjee, 51, will start midyear 2012 and will be based in Zurich. He joins ABB from Hewlett Packard, where he was Senior Vice President of Research and Director of HP Labs. Prior […]

  • MaRINET Marine Renewables Infrastructure Network (UK)

    26 January 2012

    MARINET (Marine Renewables Infrastructure Network), is a €9 million EU funded FP7 project which aims to accelerate the development of marine renewable energy (wave, tidal and offshore wind) by coordinating marine research and development at all scales (small models through to prototype scales from laboratory through to open sea tests) and allowing researchers and developers […]

  • New Offshore Strategy From Partnership Megavind (Denmark)

    6 December 2010

    In May 2006, the Danish Government presented a report on promoting environmentally effective technology and established a number of innovative partnerships. The partnerships intend to strengthen public-private cooperation between the state, industry, universities and venture capital to accelerate innovation for a number of green technologies. The partnership for wind energy is called Megavind. Megavind’s vision […]

  • Why the US Offshore Wind Market Is Going to Be Even Bigger than You Think

    8 May 2018

    By Jason Deign, for New Energy Update There is one subject that all commentators on the US offshore wind industry agree on: the sector is going to undergo rapid expansion over the next decade. What does provoke argument is the likely scale of this growth, and the relative importance of the factors that are going to […]

  • Hochtief Reports 3Q Net Profit of EUR 98.7 Million (Germany)

    16 November 2011
    Business & Finance

    HOCHTIEF’s operating business performed as planned in the third quarter of 2011: The Group is in the black, with profit before taxes of EUR 333.0 million and consolidated net profit of EUR 98.7 million. That means HOCHTIEF achieved turnaround in the operating business, although it has not yet fully made good the loss incurred in […]

  • Spain: IBERDROLA and Barcelona Supercomputing Center Team Up for Sedar Project

    29 July 2013

    IBERDROLA and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center – Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS), are jointly developing a major R&D&I initiative known as the ‘Sedar Project (High Resolution Wind Simulation)’. SEDAR is an innovative project aimed at developing a new computer model to improve estimates of electrical energy production in windfarms before their construction. Current models have […]

  • Poland lacks legislation that enables offshore wind projects

    2 August 2010
    R&D

    Development of offshore wind farms in Poland has been slow, despite the country’s leadership of the wind energy sector in Central and Eastern Europe. Although the offshore wind energy market is well-established in Western Europe, primarily in the UK and Denmark, central and eastern European nations have yet to appear on the offshore wind energy […]

  • STRABAG Invests in Development of Own Offshore Wind Power Plants (Austria)

    23 May 2011

    The construction group STRABAG SE signed an agreement on acquiring a 51 % stake in two holding companies to develop, build and operate offshore wind power plants. With the transaction, the company extends its existing competence as a builder of wind power facilities. STRABAG and project developer Northern Energy Projekt GmbH, represented by its managing […]

  • UHI to Identify Sites for Wave Power Projects off Western Isles (UK)

    25 March 2011
    Business & Finance, R&D

    Lews Castle College UHI, part of the University of the Highlands and Islands, is to lead on a key research project that could help to make the Hebrides one of the most valuable and sought-after marine energy sites in Europe. The wave power to the west of the Outer Hebrides is said to be one […]

  • 20 MW Wind Turbines Are Feasible (Belgium)

    15 March 2011

    20 Megawatt wind turbines are feasible, according to a new report from the EU-funded UpWind project, published today at the EWEA 2011 Annual Event in Brussels. The UpWind project explored the design limits of upscaling wind turbines to 20 Megawatt (MW) and found that they would have rotor diameters of around 200 metres, compared to […]

  • E.ON Remains on Course Despite Extraordinary Business and Energy-Policy Challenges (Germany)

    11 May 2011
    Business & Finance

    E.ON remains on course despite extraordinary business and energy-policy challenges. Its forecast for full-year 2011 is nearly unchanged despite the anticipated negative impact of the economic crisis on its power business and rising margin pressure in its gas business plus the additional negative impact of the shutdown of two of its nuclear power stations in […]

  • A&P Tyne in ‘Super Group’ to Demonstrate Region’s Ability in Offshore Renewable Industry (UK)

    21 October 2011

    A&P TYNE is part of a newly-launched North East “Super Group” formed to tell global business just how deep the region’s talent pool is in the growth area of renewable energy. The influential band of companies – united under the name Energi Coast – aim to demonstrate the region’s ability to service the entire needs […]

  • EU-funded Initiative Set to Boost Marine Renewables with EUR 9 Million (Ireland)

    12 December 2011
    Business & Finance

    A new EU-funded initiative is set to give the marine renewable energy sector a boost worth EUR 9 million. The MARINET (‘Marine renewables infrastructure network’) initiative will give companies access to test facilities in specialist marine renewable energy centres across Europe. Led by researchers at the Hydraulics and Maritime Research Centre (HMRC) at University College […]

  • Offshore Center Danmark Wins Distinguished EU Award

    14 August 2012

    The Danish knowledge center for the offshore sector, Offshore Center Danmark, has been acknowledged in a very distinguished way for its efforts in helping to create collaboration through networks and for making visible Danish competences in the oil, gas and offshore wind turbine sectors. In its capacity as a cluster organization, Offshore Center Danmark has […]

  • Belgium: Second Phase of Thornton Bank Offshore Wind Farm Starts Operation

    31 January 2013
    Wind Farm Update

    Thornton Bank 2 offshore wind farm, located off the Belgian coast, was fully commissioned in January. The second phase of the wind farm consisting of 24 new wind turbines with a total output of 148 megawatts (MW) is now fully in operation and connected to the grid. The turbines are set to generate approximately 500,000 […]