Driving home the point that the end of Cape Wind is near, the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound launched a new radio campaign across the Cape and the Islands. The radio spots highlight the costly threats associated with the proposed massive wind turbine project that would be located in Nantucket S
HR Wallingford’s noise model within its Hydro-Acoustic Model for Mitigation and Ecological Response (HAMMER) tool has been validated using pin-piling and ambient noise data collected from a boat based hydrophone during the construction of the SeaGen tidal turbine in Strangford Lough, in Northern Ire
The Scots would pay the highest power bills in the world in an independent Scotland, as they would have to import electricity from England. The country’s current energy policy, which requires production of 100% renewable energy by 2020, and unreliability of wind power would lead to paying for import
David Cameron’s planning minister Nick Boles, has been stripped of his wind farm planning duties due to the fact that his brother is working for Siemens. Nick Boles was in charge of guidance on wind farms location since September until April, when his brother, chief financial officers for Siemens Wi
The Conservative- Liberal Democrat UK Government has been left embarrassed after suggesting that there are no ports in the North of Scotland, according to the news on SNP’s website. The Press and Journal reported on August 3 that a map included in the new offshore wind strategy – published last week
Together with RWE Innogy, FoundOcean is currently working on the 48-jacket Nordsee Ost offshore wind farm in the German sector of the North Sea. The project teams are undertaking onshore trials to investigate effective ways of speeding up the foundation installation process. One option under conside
On Thursday, August 8, at 3 p.m. ET, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) invites public to discuss the innovative projects, technologies, and policies that are helping America stay competitive in this booming global industry during a special Google+ Hangout on wind energy in America. During the Hangout,
GL Garrad Hassan has begun a project for the Hawai’i Natural Energy Institute at the University of Hawai’i (HNEI-UH) supporting the institute’s Hawai’i National Marine Renewable Energy Center (HINMREC) wave energy testing program. HINMREC, under funding from the Wind and Water Power Program of the U
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said that the UK Government is doing everything in their power to convince Siemens to advance with its proposal for the Hull facility, reports the Hull Daily Mail. During his visit to North East Lincolnshire, Clegg said: “We are working flat out to seek to persuade S
At the beginning of the week, RWE Innogy has started laying the first inter array cable in the construction area of the Nordsee Ost offshore wind farm. By mid-2014, 64 kilometers of cable will have connected the 48 wind turbines with the offshore transformer substation. The Dutch company Visser & Sm
The Humber LEP welcomes the publication of the Government’s offshore wind strategy. The strategy formalises and brings together the key strands of sector for the industry to strengthen the UK position, where there is already more wind operation than the rest of the world combined. The Humber is well
Providence-based offshore wind energy developer has withdrawn its application to run a transmission cable through the Town of Narragansett, writes the Providence Journal. Namely, Deepwater Wind planned to place the electric cable from the Block Island wind farm, made of 5 wind turbines, to the Block
K2 Management is now in a stronger position to supply its support, knowledge and experience to the wind industry in Taiwan and the surrounding region, with the official opening of the company’s office in Taiwan in July 2013. The local Government has set the goal to install 1000 wind turbines by 2030
Today just over 6GW of offshore wind generation capacity is inst alled world wide, with an equal amount in development or under construction. While the top offshore wind markets are still found in Europe, representing more than 90% of the current installed capacity, a number of Asian countries inclu
