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  • UK Renewables Jobs Grow Faster Than National Average

    4 May 2015
    Jobs & Recruitment

    The Renewable Energy Association (REA) has released regional and national jobs analysis, which has revealed remarkable growth in the UK’s renewable energy labour market. In the UK as a whole, employment in renewable energy increased by 9% across all sectors, bringing the total number working in the industry to 112,026. In comparison, the Office for […]

  • 2012 Record Breaking Year for Scottish Renewable Energy

    31 December 2012

    Energy Minister Fergus Ewing has hailed 2012 as the “best year yet” for renewable energy in Scotland. Industry figures estimate that renewable energy capacity coming on line in Scotland during 2012 represents investment of more than a billion pounds for the first time, while industry surveys also suggest that the renewables sector currently employs around […]

  • Entrion Wind Wins ScotWind Feasibility Deal for Its 100-Metre Depth Foundation Tech

    24 February 2023
    Business development, Contracts & Tenders, R&D, Research & Development, Technology

    Entrion Wind has been awarded a project to evaluate the feasibility of its patent-pending fully restrained platform (FRP) offshore wind foundation technology by a ScotWind developer. Under the agreement, Entrion will assess the technical and economic feasibility of the FRP foundation technology, extending the monopile and its established supply chain and favourable economics up to […]

  • UK Offshore Wind Power Generation Up 68 Pct in 2011

    27 July 2012
    Authorities

    Government figures released yesterday in the annual Digest of UK Energy Statistics show that electricity production from renewable energy sources in 2011 was up by 33% on the previous year and accounted for 9.4% of all electricity generated in the year. This increase has predominately been driven by increases in electricity generation from both onshore […]

  • UK Renewable Electricity Generation Up 10%

    27 June 2013

      RenewableUK has welcomed new official Government statistics published today by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) showing that renewable electricity generation was 12.4 TWh in 2013 Q1 an increase of 10% on the same period the previous year. Overall renewables provided 12.3% of power in 2013 Q1, an increase of 1% from […]

  • LM, Goldwind Present Longest Blade in China

    18 October 2017

    LM Wind Power has announced the launch of its longest blade in China, the LM 75.1 P, tailor-made blade for Goldwind’s new 6.7MW offshore wind turbine.

  • China Appetite for Renewable Energy to Drive Wind Power Installation Capacity

    31 August 2010
    R&D

    Favourable economic and operating environment coupled with focus on offshore wind power development to result in phenomenal growth of wind power installations in China. According to the research report “China Wind Power Market Outlook 2014” by TechSci Research, The wind power installation in China has been experiencing exponential growth in recent years due to favourable […]

  • Germany: More than 100 Exhibitors Already Booked at WINDFORCE 2014

    30 November 2012

    The organisers of WINDFORCE 2014, Germany’s trade fair for the offshore wind industry, have already registered more than 100 firm bookings of international exhibitors a good year and a half prior to the event. The trade fair will be held for the second time in 2014, following on the first event this year which attracted […]

  • The Netherlands: Lagendijk Equipment Fits Two Cranes to WaveWalker 1

    24 October 2012
    Technology

    Lagendijk Equipment revealed the completion of an order from Van Oord for two electric/ hydraulic cranes to be installed on the innovative walking jack-up barge WaveWalker 1. Van Oord is a leading international contractor in dredging, marine engineering, and offshore oil, gas and wind projects. The first, Lagendijk’s LKB 13.0 / 20.0 – 10.0 Offshore […]

  • Avanti Wind Systems Participates in Hannover Industrial Fair 2013, Germany

    12 April 2013

    Hannover Industrial Fair 2013 had around 180,000 visitors from more than 90 countries all over the world. It is the leading trade fair for Wind generation Technology, Components and Service. Avanti Wind Systems was one of the exhibitors, and in five days General Manager for Central Europe, Markus Oehler, and Service Manager Jens Stange had […]

  • Just 2.67p Per Household, New Study Shows (UK)

    22 March 2013

    New figures released by Ofgem yesterday show that wind energy costs as little as 2.67p per household per day. The news that the cost of wind is so low comes as the energy regulator revealed that together onshore and offshore wind accounted for nearly 59% of renewable energy generation in the UK in 2011-2012, which […]

  • WindEnergy Hamburg Kicks Off

    27 September 2016
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology, Training & Education, Vessels

    Germany’s Minister for Economics Sigmar Gabriel has officially opened the second edition of WindEnergy Hamburg, a biennial trade fair focussing on wind energy. The WindEnergy Hamburg 2016 will run from September 27 to September 30 in Hamburg’s fairgrounds where over 1,200 exhibitors from 34 countries are expected to present their innovations in the onshore and offshore industry […]

  • UK: East Coast Charters Secures Contracts for Entire Fleet

    11 July 2013

    East Coast Charters Ltd has sourced contracts for its fleet of crew transfer vessels on the London Array Offshore windfarm. ECC Opal and ECC Topaz were already working on site and the company’s new 18m vessel ECC Challenger has now joined them on a short term contract. General Manager Sam McNamee commented: ” In a […]

  • Race for New Offshore Wind Acreage Starts in Poland

    8 February 2022
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders

    Polish energy companies PKN Orlen and PGE have separately submitted multiple applications for location permits to develop offshore wind farms in newly designated areas of the Polish Baltic Sea. The Polish Ministry of Infrastructure opened a 60-day window for developers to apply for location permits to build and operate offshore wind farms in the new […]

  • VTT: Artificial Intelligence Road to Erosion-Free Blades

    22 January 2019
    Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology

    Artificial intelligence and 3D printing can help in solving the problem of erosion on wind turbine blades, according to a project conducted by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. The antiAGE project saw VTT develop an optimized solution to the material problem through a design process using virtual testing and machine learning in less than a […]

  • Boskalis Further Cuts Stake in Fugro

    13 December 2016
    Business & Finance

    After the last week’s announcement that Royal Boskalis Westminster reduced its holding in Fugro to 24.9%, the Dutch dredging, maritime and offshore company informed this morning that it further cut its stake in Fugro to 9.38%. Peter Berdowski, CEO Boskalis: “During the presentation of the half year results, we indicated that we would reconsider our position in […]

  • 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 […]

  • UK Wind Energy Hits New Record High

    6 November 2014
    Authorities

    New figures from the National Grid for October show that wind power smashed more energy generation records, contributing even more to the UK’s clean electricity mix. Wind energy hit a record high providing a 24% daily share of the UK’s electricity needs on the 20th October, beating the previous record of 22% set in August. […]

  • Foreign Firms to Earn GBP 120 Billion on UK’s Offshore Wind Bills

    4 February 2013
    Business & Finance

    Foreign companies will earn up to GBP 120 billion by 2020 on British subsidies for offshore wind, the Renewable Energy Foundation (REF) claims. This will be done through burdening consumers’ electricity bills. According to REF, owners of nine new UK’s large-scale offshore wind farms, which are expected to be mostly operational by 2020, will acquire […]

  • David Still: “Energy Is the Lifeblood of Any Country!”

    27 November 2015

    UK renewables and wind expert David Still lives in a country with huge onshore and offshore wind resource and additional major potential for exploiting waves and sea current energy. Still firmly believes in a sustainable future energy supply based upon renewables and provided as an essential public service to the people in the UK. Availability […]

  • WINDFORCE 2012 – More than 250 Exhibitors and 50 Speakers in 4 Days (Germany)

    31 May 2012

    Exhibition Hall 5 at the Bremen Fair is almost fully booked. WINDFORCE 2012, Germany’s first trade fair for the offshore wind energy industry, will present more than 250 international exhibitors, including global businesses and young start-ups representing the entire value-added chain. “To exceed the number of exhibitors we expected in our first year is of […]

  • Westermeerwind Records Stellar Results in October

    3 November 2017
    Wind Farm Update

    Dutch nearshore wind farm Westermeerwind generated 69.7 GWh of electricity in October, marking the best monthly result ever for the 144MW wind farm since its inauguration in 2016.  

  • NSB, OFFCON Introduce New Design for MPOV-Wind Family

    16 June 2014

    Reederei-NSB (NSB) and the offshore consultancy OFFCON GmbH (OFFCON) introduced a new design for the MPOV-wind family. It is a tailor made, extremely flexible and cost efficient, modular vessel family designed for the special requirements of the offshore wind industry. The MPOV-Wind family is the product of a joint-venture (JV) of the shipping company Reederei-NSB […]

  • Marylanders Support Offshore Wind

    3 April 2017
    Authorities, Ports & Logistics

    The Maryland Public Service Commission (PSC) held the second offshore wind public hearing on 30 March and saw hundreds of Marylanders, including legislators, business leaders, labour groups, environmental organisations and other citizens joining the meeting.

  • Germany: Messe Husum & Congress Appoints New Sales Manager

    10 December 2012

    Lars Kessler is the new man in charge of sales at Messe Husum & Congress. As senior sales manager his primary focus will be on the leading international wind industry trade fair, HUSUM Wind. With this newly created position the HUSUM organising company is enlarging a strategically important area of business, and will be concentrating […]

  • Scottish Renewables Industry Displaces Record Amount of CO2

    3 October 2013

    New figures from the UK Government have shown that more than 10 million tonnes of CO2 emissions were displaced by renewable electricity generation in Scotland – up by almost a quarter from the previous year. Niall Stuart, Chief Executive of Scottish Renewables, said: “Last week’s climate change report reinforced the need for concerted action to […]