As part of President Obama’s all-of-the-above energy strategy, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Director Tommy P. Beaudreau yesterday announced that Interior is taking steps to assess the conventional and renewable energy resource potential in the Mi
With an aim of reducing carbon emissions in half by 2020, Britain is pushing ahead with fast development of wind industry on its coastlines, The Telegraph reports. Namely, the plan for this year is to reach the number of 3,500 wind turbines, which underlies construction of additional 300 wind turbin
Siem Offshore Contractors GmbH (“SOC”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Siem Offshore Inc., announced today that SOC has been awarded the contract for the installation of the inner array grid cables as well as associated services for the Amrumbank West Offshore Wind Farm (“OWF”) project by Amrumbank We
Department of Energy (DOE) grant recipient, Ocean Renewable Power Company (ORPC) is now licensed to construct, operate, and maintain its 5-unit, 300 kW TidGen Power System in Cobscook Bay, Maine. In 2010, DOE awarded $10 million to ORPC’s $21-million TidGen Power System Commercialization Project. Th
MAJOR components have begun arriving at new port facilities on the River Mersey in Birkenhead for the construction of Gwynt y Môr Offshore Wind Farm in Liverpool Bay. The €2billion (EURO) project, one of Europe’s largest offshore wind farms, 18km off the Wirral coast, is enabling significant new inv
OSBIT Power (OP), Siemens Wind Power and Statoil announced that they have successfully completed offshore trials of OP’s innovative offshore wind turbine access system, MaXccess. The trials were conducted with the backing of Siemens Wind Power and Statoil, at the Hywind Demo floating offshore wind t
3TIER, a world leader in renewable energy risk analysis, announced that Jerry Schwartz has joined the company as vice president of global sales. Mr. Schwartz is a former Microsoft international sales executive with over 15 years of senior leadership experience directing global sales and marketing st
Lincs Wind Farm Ltd has chosen Associated British Ports’ (ABP) Port of Hull as one of its logistics bases for its Lincs Offshore Wind Farm. Over the next few months, the port’s Albert and William Wright Docks will be the focal point for the storage and distribution of transition pieces installed as
Xinjiang Goldwind Science & Technology Co., Ltd. (Goldwind) announced its annual results for the year ended 31 December 2011 (the “reporting period”). In 2011, volatility in the domestic and global economies presented great challenges for China’s wind power industry. During the reporting period, to
At today’s press conference held in Frankfurt chief executive officer of KfW, German development lender, Ulrich Schroeder, stated that KfW is considering the manners in which the production of renewable energy in Germany could be expanded, reported Bloomberg. He stated that there is a „room for mano
In the aftermath of the decision made by Spanish company Gamesa not to award an 800-job contract to the Tees Valley, but to assign a £125m worth deal for construction of wind turbines to Leith near Edinburgh, Damien Wilson, the assistant director of regeneration and planning at Hartlepool Borough Co
At a meeting of the Board of Directors of DONG Energy A/S on 9 March 2012, the Board decided to ask the law firm Norrbom Vinding to conduct a legal investigation to assess whether, in connection with the establishment of salary and employment terms for specific existing and former employees, Anders
East Anglia Offshore Wind has revealed more info on one of the world’s largest offshore wind farms to be constructed off Suffolk coast. Joint venture between ScottishPower Renewables (SPR) and Vattenfall Wind Power Limited plans to develop one part of the 7,200MW project. The East Anglia ONE Offshor
Global leader in subsea and offshore grouting, FoundOcean announces today that its expanded Offshore Service Base in Livingston, Scotland will see it doubling the number of employees the company has based there, including offshore personnel. A specialist provider of support services for the energy c
