Statnett and National Grid are jointly developing a project to construct a High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) electrical interconnector between Norway and Great Britain. MMT will be performing the route survey for this project between Hylen, Norway and Blyth, UK. The survey will be performed April –
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) yesterda held its first offshore renewable energy task force meeting in cooperation with South Carolina’s Energy Office. This intergovernmental task force was established to facilitate communication between BOEM and state, local, tribal and federal stakeh
Vallourec, world leader in premium tubular solutions, presents its patented PREON® marine tubes system designed to anchor offshore wind turbines to the seabed. Developed by Vallourec’s R&D teams, this solution will mean that offshore wind turbine foundations can be installed with less effort, noise
It seems that the accusations, saying that the projected savings in carbon dioxide emissions, amounting to 200,000 tonnes a year of Redcar’s offshore windfarm, are not overstated, Gazette live reports. Namely, EDF Energy Renewables launched construction in February of an offshore windfarm at Redcar,
Energy Minister, Pat Rabbitte, welcomes the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding on offshore renewable energy research cooperation with the United States Department of Energy. The memorandum was signed on his behalf in Washington last week during the Taoiseach’s visit to the US. Dr Peter Heffern
Since early 2003, StormGeo has been running nested, limited area numerical weather prediction (NWP) models to gain real-time weather prediction and for studying historical periods. The company have extensive practice in using weather models to produce high-horizontal resolution hindcasts; historical
Nordic Capital Fund VII (“Nordic Capital”) today announced the acquisition of Bladt Industries A/S (“Bladt” or “the Company”) from Maj Invest Equity, Industri Udvikling and Bladt management. Bladt, headquartered in Aalborg, Denmark, is an international steel contractor specializing in large-scale an
Energy Minister Fergus Ewing has welcomed new figures that demonstrate Scotland will beat the 2011 renewables target. Statistics published today show that the amount of renewable electricity generated in 2011 rose 45 per cent on 2010 to 13,750 Gigawatt hours. Assuming gross consumption in 2011 is si
According to Whats on Xiamen, the south-eastern Chinese province, Fujian got the first 5MW direct-drive permanent magnetic offshore prototype. The prototype has been installed by XEMC, in a land surrounded by the sea in three sides in Dongsha village, Sanshan town of Fuqing city, Fujian province. Th
The Elbehafen Brunsbüttel, a universal port in private ownership of Brunsbüttel Ports GmbH / SCHRAMM group, is going to be extended this year. Brunsbüttel Ports GmbH, port operator and owner of the infrastructure, invest a total of about 15 Million Euro to improve the middle berth in the multi-purpo
Offshore Turbine Services Ltd is a new entrant into the rapidly expanding offshore wind turbine support market and having carried out a great deal of research, identified the CTruk Boats’ vessel as a very viable solution to all its needs so have two under construction and they are due to be in servi
Building and maintaining an offshore wind farm requires extremely accurate predictions of the weather windows available for each operation. Navigating a specially built vessel with a wind-sensitive load of turbine parts on its deck, jagging up the vessel to prepare for turbine installation, position
Tens of thousands of jobs are on the horizon in the new renewables, energy and chemicals process workforce over the coming few years, and many of them will be on the Humber, say industry experts. The massive potential for jobs in the region came under the spotlight at a Hull conference organised by
StormGeo will investigate the potential and consequences for developing Offshore Wind Power in Norwegian waters. In late spring/early summer 2012 the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate, NVE, on behalf of the Oil and Energy Ministry, will present the results of a major study examining t
