The Scottish Government’s flagship renewables target is “not realistic”, according to engineering leaders – the second such… By Kate Devlin (heraldscotland) [mappress] Source: heraldscotland, November 24, 2011
MAKE Consulting – a leading strategic advisor to the wind power industry – enhances its offshore wind intelligence and advisory offerings. Through stronger offshore wind experience, a tailored research concept, and the addition of a known offshore wind specialist – Kaj Lindvig – MAKE Consulting is p
Buss will be presenting itself and its offshore activities at the world’s largest trade fair for offshore wind power, the 2011 EWEA OFFSHORE in Amsterdam, from 29 November until 1 December. The port services provider has business locations on the North Sea and Baltic Sea coasts, which are ideally su
Narec expects to run a concession tender process to choose project partners to deliver the maximum benefit to industry commensurate with appropriate public procurement rules. They are now engaging with the market regarding the concession opportunity and their initial proposal on structure is to offe
The world’s first wave power machine to be sold to a utility company has celebrated its first anniversary since grid connection at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) with a series of technical achievements and no lost time incidents. The E.ON machine was installed in October 2010. Since then a
Hamilton councillors hope they are not blowing hot air. By Kevin Werner (sachem) [mappress] Source: sachem, November 24, 2011
Developing a new electricity grid under the Irish Sea connecting power sources on Scottish, Northern Ireland and Republic… [mappress] (mediacontact) Source: mediacontact, November 24, 2011; Image: dcenr
Vestas has announced that the nacelles for prototype and pre-series versions of their new dedicated offshore turbine, the V164-7.0 MW, will be assembled at Lindø, Denmark. For these purposes, Vestas has signed a fixed period business lease agreement with Lindø Industrial Park. The agreement, which t
Wind Power – Global Market Size, Turbine Market Share, Installation Prices, Regulations and Investment Analysis to 2020 is the latest report from GlobalData, the industry analysis specialists that offer comprehensive information and understanding of the global wind power market. The research provide
Scott McMillan has been appointed managing director of CLS Offshore, the energy sector (tms-media) [mappress] Source: tms-media, November 24, 2011
At a media briefing in Inverness, Moray Offshore Renewables Ltd published a report detailing the work it has undertaken over the past year to develop plans for 1 500MW offshore wind generation in the Outer Moray Firth. The power will be generated by offshore wind turbines, capable of delivering up t
Chevalier Floatels has made good progress with the development of its new offshore floatel concept. The design of the two DP2 floatels with Ampelmann Heave Compensated Gangway nears completion. With the Ampelmann located on the top deck a whole range of advantages are achieved. The high location of
This time next week Amsterdam will be a hive of activity for anyone interested in the offshore wind energy sector. EWEA spoke to Heiko Ross from Windreich to uncover what he thinks will be the hot topics at his session at EWEA’s OFFSHORE 2011 conference… Why is offshore wind energy expensive compare
A full-size prototype of the floating LIDAR offshore resource assessment system, known as FLIDAR™, has been successfully tested 15km off the Belgian coast. It has been located next to a stationary LIDAR (WINDCUBE®v2 LIDAR from Leosphere) on a fixed communication mast for the month of October, in ord
