Simon Melrose, the platform project manager for the Fundy Ocean Research Center for Energy (FORCE), speaking at the Nova Scotia Energy Research and Development Forum yesterday, announced construction contracts for a new underwater platform designed to measure the tide in real time via cable connecti
Media and airline businessman Sir Richard Branson is calling on Scottish entrepreneurs to challenge what he describes as ‘the climate change sceptics’ with the facts about the changing environment. Sir Richard was speaking to delegates attending the 14th All Energy Conference and Exhibition in Aberd
The Sierra Club, along with more than 20 partners, has announced the Wind 100 – a 100 mile run across Long Island for offshore wind power on June 14th. The event will highlight the historic opportunity for New York to build one of the nation’s first-ever offshore wind farms 30 miles off the coast of
After 14 highly successful years in Aberdeen, 2015 sees the UK’s largest renewable energy event move to a new home in Glasgow. Like Aberdeen, Glasgow understands and appreciates the strategic importance of renewable energy and is rapidly emerging as a leading international hub for energy expertise,
MENCK, a provider of specialized hydraulic pile driving solutions to the offshore oil, gas, wind farm, bridge and harbor industries, will take part in WindEnergy Hamburg 2014, from 23-26 September 2014. The company’s team will be located at hall B4 Booth416, where visitors can meet its experts to le
Importance of the UK’s offshore wind industry was at the heart of a speech delivered by Greg Barker, the UK Minister of State for Energy and Climate Change, to the Royal Bank of Canada Capital Markets on UK renewables infrastructure investor day. Mr. Barker stressed that the UK is now the fastest-gr
“Last year was an extraordinary year, capped by the merger of DNV and GL in September and the beginning of a truly transformative period in our company’s history,” says Henrik O. Madsen, President & Chief Executive Officer of the DNV GL Group. “We strengthened our market position and expertise in al
Great Yarmouth-based GEV Offshore is taking advantage of the booming offshore wind industry. “We worked on over 30 wind farms last year, both onshore and offshore, and 40 this year,“ said Managing Director David Fletcher, according to the Norwich Evening News 24. However, as the work scope increases
Following the financial close of the Gemini offshore wind project, nkt cables received a binding order worth approximately 165 mEUR for the delivery of more than 200 kilometers of 220 kV high voltage submarine cables and related accessories, all to be manufactured in Cologne, Germany. The cables are
Dong Energy has contracted SPT Offshore for the structural and geotechnical design of suction bucket foundations for potentially five transformer substations, namely Burbo Bank Extension, Race Bank and Walney Extension. The 4 suction buckets will potentially form the foundation of 4-leg jackets supp
Scottish Enterprise announced £3.5 million of new investment in Scotland’s growing renewable energy sector, Energy Minister Fergus Ewing said. Four projects are being supported through the enterprise agency’s Renewable Energy Investment Fund (REIF). Islay Energy Community Benefit Society will receiv
The deadline for Expression of Interest (EoI) for the development of French tidal energy projects was closed on Friday, May 16th. French President François Hollande called for expressions of interest for pilot tidal farms on September 30, 2013. Under the EoI, seven zones have been provided for the i
Development of the offshore wind industry in North-West Europe was the central topic at the Dutch – German – American Offshore Wind Summit held on 19th of May 2014 in Hamburg. The Renewable Energy Hamburg Cluster (EEHH) alongside the Dutch network Cleantech Holland, organized the workshop, which was
Tethys, a robust online resource available for free to anyone interested in ocean energy and offshore wind resources, focuses on the environmental effects of energy projects that are proposed, underway or completed in the ocean and above it. The database includes hundreds of scientific papers, techn
