AREVA and South Korea’s largest utility, KEPCO, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in the renewable energy sector. AREVA will identify with KEPCO the commercial opportunities in its fields of expertise in renewable energy: offshore wind, energy storage, concentrated solar power, and bio
Attendees at the EWEA Offshore exhibition will have the opportunity to meet Royal Wagenborg’s logistic experts, who have extensive experience in the wind power industry. Among the projects in which Royal Wagenborg is and has been involved recently, are offshore wind farms Bard Offshore I, Borkum Wes
A group of scientists from the United Kingdom and the United States have developed a method to assess the potential impacts of offshore wind farm construction on marine mammal populations, particularly the noise made while driving piles into the seabed to install wind turbine foundations. “Pile-driv
Chief Technology Officer at the National Renewable Energy Centre (Narec), Ignacio Marti, has been elected Vice Chair of the Executive Committee for the International Energy Agency Wind Implementing Agreement (IEA Wind). The International Energy Agency (IEA) Wind agreement is a vehicle for member cou
Tidal Transit has won a long-term contract for its Ginny Louise, the first of a potential fleet of ten crew transfer vessels. This is a second 18-month contract awarded by Scira Offshore Energy to Tidal Transit. The Ginny Louise will be working alongside her sister vessel Tia Elizabeth servicing the
Falck Safety Services has invested more than GBP 100,000 in cutting edge crisis management facilities near its existing training centre at Aberdeen airport. The facilities, based in Forties Road at Aberdeen Airport provide state-of-the-art training rooms for Major Emergency Management Initial Respon
The Offshore WIND team will be at the RenewableUK 2013 annual conference and exhibition taking place from 5th to 7th November in Birmingham. Widely recognised as the key renewables event in the UK, RenewableUK 2013 is taking place for the 35th time this year and it will be attended by over 5,000 del
NAVALU, French workboat builder, will introduce its new catamaran SeaFox at the EWEA Offshore 2013 in Frankfurt Messe, Germany. NAVALU launched the SeaFox in September. The vessel is an offshore wind farm service vessel (WFSV) with a total length of 24 meters and width of 9.90 meters. The SeaFox is
At tomorrow’s RenewableUK annual conference in Birmingham, Vestas will bring its innovative global campaign to the UK and Ireland, with an aim to separate rhetoric from reality and to channel public support towards actions that help wind energy. “The public debate about wind energy and green levies
Paramarine software has been selected by Mojo Maritime Ltd. to support the design of a new dynamic positioning (DP) offshore construction vessel, the HiFlo-4 (HF4,) which will have applications for the tidal energy industry. The purpose of the HF4 is to reduce the installed cost of marine renewable
Great Yarmouth is set to become a home to dedicated business park for firms in the energy industry. The plan is led by Great Yarmouth Development Company, a new joint venture between Great Yarmouth Borough Council and Norfolk County Council, which aims to pool skills and resources to unlock and acce
The OWDIn (Offshore Wind Drivetrain Innovation) project was announced today by the Rt Hon Edward Davey MP, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate, speaking at the annual RenewableUK conference in Birmingham. The Ricardo-led project takes a broad drivetrain approach to improving reliability throug
Optimization Group of the Department of Informatics at the University of Bergen, Norway hosted an offshore wind farm optimisation workshop with an aim to identify the best layout in terms of turbine and substation positions and cable layout, given expected wind distributions and some development opt
Green Marine Solution (GMS), a provider of professional marine services and specialist support to the offshore wind industry, has received GBP 450,000 from Northstar Ventures’ Finance for Business North East Accelerator Fund. “The funding received from Northstar is going to be used primarily to comp
