This week, PSEG kicks off two weeks of public hearings on their proposed Utility 2.0 plan, part of Governor Cuomo’s promise to reorganize Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) as a 21st century utility. The hearings are scheduled for Smithtown (8/19), Mineola (8/20), Rockaways (8/21), East Hampton (8/2
Officials from the Government of Bermuda, Dr. the Hon. E. Grant Gibbons J.P., M.P., Minister of Education and Economic Development and the Hon. Jeanne Atherden, JP, MP, Minister for Health, Seniors and the Environment, recently received the final report from the University of California (Santa Barba
A Norwegian shipbroker company, Pareto JGO Shipbrokers will acquire Derrick Offshore, a specialist in subsea cable installation and other services in the offshore energy market. Derrick Offshore will continue to trade under its current name and trademark, with all of the current directors and shareh
The Munich City Utility (Stadtwerke München) has assigned BBB Umwelttechnik GmbH (BBB) to conduct a technical due diligence on the Sandbank project in the German North Sea. The transaction between SWM and Vattenfall has now been successfully completed. The offshore wind farm is planned to be impleme
The Isle of Wight’s innovative tidal energy firm, Sustainable Marine Energy (SME), is creating new jobs as it develops unique sustainable electricity projects – thanks to two of the area’s most important green energy funds. East Cowes-based SME has been awarded the grants by the IoW Council’s Solent
RenewableUK says a record high of 22% of the UK’s electricity was generated by wind on Sunday (17th August), beating the previous 24-hour record of 21% set earlier this month (Monday 11th August). Before that, the record stood at 20%, set on 20th December 2013. The UK’s onshore and offshore wind tur
BASF A/S, the Danish legal entity of BASF’s Construction Chemicals Division, is the first company to obtain the Type Approval Certificate (TAC) from certifying body DNV GL for the company’s offshore grout MasterFlow 9500 used in the grouted connections of offshore wind turbine foundations. MasterFlo
First Flight Wind has appointed Northern Ireland archaeological consultancy Gahan and Long to assess the potential impacts, from an archaeology and cultural heritage perspective, of connecting the offshore wind farm to the Northern Ireland electricity grid network. Their findings will feed into the
Offshore WIND brings the following article with permission from the LatinAmericanScience.org. The article on offshore wind potential in Latin America has been written by Luis Armando Pagan Quinones, who is specializing in the production of drinking water by desalination systems using offshore wind p
Blue Offshore, a specialist in subsea cable installation, will attend the Offshore Energy 2014 exhibition in Amsterdam on 28 and 29 October 2014. Visitors to the Blue Offshore’s stand (no. 9.048) will have an opportunity to learn more about the company and its modular offshore equipment solutions an
Atkins has been appointed by Tidal Lagoon Swansea Bay Plc to act as an engineer for its Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon project in Wales, UK, the first renewable energy scheme of its type in the world. Under the contract, Atkins will provide specialist design and engineering support acting on behalf of the
David Morris, MP for Morecambe and Lunesdale, has said that a recent accident involving a ship and a wind turbine at Walney caused him “great concern” and has praised the coastguard and lifeboat crews. Mr. Morris, who is also the Chairman of the Parliamentary Coastal and Marine group, said: “It caus
A proposed wind farm off the coast of Sussex has gained consent with important input from ornithologists at APEM, who carried out further assessment work on the wind farm’s potential impacts on migratory birds, including gannet, gulls, terns, waders and wildfowl during the examination of the project
ABB has been awarded a contract by Atlantis Resources Limited to provide the onshore grid connection for Phase I of the MeyGen tidal stream project in Scotland’s Pentland Firth. The MeyGen tidal stream project is at the forefront of world marine energy development and will harvest the tidal resource
