Award-winning energy services company ROVOP has bolstered its rapid growth by investing in two new innovative ROVs (remotely-operated vehicles) to add to its fleet of high-performance vehicles. Both new ROVs, which represent an investment of more than £2million, are powerful vehicles for the subsea
Oceanflow Development Limited has been successful in winning WATERS-2 (Wave and Tidal Energy R&D Support) funding from Scottish Enterprise for the development of a twin-turbine variant of its floating, tethered Evopod technology. This latest award follows WATERS 1 funding in 2010 to demonstrate Ocea
As Reuters reports, German Chancellor Merkel’s cabinet gave a green light to a draft law aimed at spurring offshore wind development, which is the key part of the German green energy shift. The draft will now go through the parliamentary legislative process. So far the offshore wind development has
The New England Marine Renewable Energy Center at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (MREC) announced that it has signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). The three-year agreement creates a partne
Last week, the UK based Fugro commenced the assembly of the red jack-up barge at the New Bedford Harbor, South Coast Today news site writes. After assembly, the company will use this vessel to take samples of the ocean floor where the Cape Wind’s planned 130 wind turbines will be located. Cape Wind
On Friday August 24th Kenz Cranes, well-known specialist in offshore cranes and lifting equipment, successfully delivered the new build 400t boom hoist offshore pedestal crane. After been fully tested and commissioned the crane has been transported from the Kenz construction quay in Zaandam to Amste
The consultancy and software developer Systecon AB, a company with extensive expertise and experience in operation and maintenance analysis, performs simulations to analyze different logistics concept for East Anglia Offshore Wind, a joint venture between Scottish Power and Vattenfall. East Anglia O
On Friday afternoon, August 24, the employees at Bladt finished the two transition pieces that the company has fabricated for DONG Energy. The two 350 tonnes transition pieces and the monopiles, each 406 tonnes of weight, make up the foundations for two of Siemens’ new 6 MW wind turbines that will b
The wind farm project developer, PNE WIND AG, has published its results for the first half of 2012. The reporting period was characterised by ntensive onshore and offshore project development activity which required advance payments and investments in projects whose realisation will lead to future s
Antwerp-based Scaldis Salvage and Marine Contractors ordered the Star fleet management system and related implementation services with Dutch company MirTac. Scaldis, well-known for amongst others the heavy-lifting/floating crane vessel Rambiz, chose MirTac after a thorough selection process with mul
The UK Government is to support a range of major collaborative research and development projects, worth in excess of £13 million, that will help to show how wave and tidal energy can be generated at scale, and with lower energy production costs. The UK’s innovation agency, the Technology Strategy Bo
German unit of Vattenfall says that the German energy strategy will hit the consumers’ pockets as costs for new renewable power generation units and networks must be passed on. Vattenfall Europe chief Tuomo Hatakka told the Sueddeutsche Zeitung that he expects the electricity bill for private custom
G&W Electric Company introduces a new concept in power switchgear for offshore wind applications. The switchgear is self-contained, maintenance free and fully submersible, eliminating the need for special climate and humidity regulated control rooms. The switchgear is sized to fit through the typica
At 7:00 p.m. on Monday 3 September, German Federal Secretary of Commerce and Technology Dr Philipp Rösler will officially open the SMM, shipbuilding, machinery & marine technology international trade fair hamburg at the CCH-Congress Center Hamburg. Bernd Aufderheide, Chairman of the Board of Hamburg
