UK-based health-and-safety specialist Steel River Consultants (SRC) has been selected to act as hazard identification (HAZID) facilitator and provide CDM support and health and safety advisory services to cable supplier Prysmian on a project to construct an electricity link between the UK and Norway
The European Union risks losing its leadership in wind energy without a clear policy vision for renewables towards 2030, the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) said today in response to China overtaking the EU in installed wind capacity in 2015. In 2015, China overtook the EU for total installe
Reaching financial close and entering construction phase for Neart na Gaoithe offshore wind project could be jeopardized by the ongoing judicial review, requested by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) last year. In January 2015, RSPB submitted a legal challenge of the decisions by
Powered by 30,500 MW of new installations in China, the global wind power industry installed 63,013 MW in 2015, representing annual market growth of 22%, according to the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC). Germany led a stronger than expected performance in Europe with a record 6 GW of new installat
U.S. President Barack Obama’s final budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2017 includes a request for USD 7.7 billion in discretionary funding for clean energy research and development across 12 governmental agencies, an increase of about 20 percent compared to the previous year. U.S. Energy Secretary Ern
Swedish company Hexicon has appointed Atkins as engineering partner for the world’s first multi-turbine offshore wind floating platform to be deployed at the Dounreay Trì Project off the Scottish north coast. Atkins’ offshore wind team has been working with Hexicon to define the concept since 2015 a
The boards of directors of Bonheur ASA and Ganger Rolf ASA have resolved to propose a merger of the two companies, with Bonheur being the surviving entity and maintaining its listing on the Oslo Stock Exchange. The corporate structure of Bonheur and Ganger Rolf has historically taken the form of a c
Serco has received confirmation from the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) that the first of the company’s five new or upgraded Air Defence radars which prevent wind farms interfering with the UK’s air defence capability is now fully operational. Trials and analyses have shown that the Remote Radar Head
Netherlands Enterprise Agency (Rijksdienst voor Ondernemend Nederland or RVO.nl) has invited tenders for the collection of meteorological and oceanographic data obtained through real time field measurements at the Wind Farm Zone Hollandse Kust (Zuid). The objective of this tender is to conclude an a
Norwegian parliamentary deputy Nikolai Astrup and his fellow Conservative Party members Odd Henriksen and Gunnar Gundersen have proposed partial privatisation of the state-owned energy company Statkraft. Astrup proposes carrying out an IPO to raise capital and help the company to expand further in t
Denmark’s Ministry for Energy, Utilities and Climate has approved Energinet.dk’s application for a EUR 320 million investment in a new 400 MW interconnection between one Danish and two German offshore wind farms in the Baltic Sea. The interconnector will link the 600 MW Danish offshore wind farm Kri
Oldenburg-based utility EWE will not see any power coming from its 113.4 MW Riffgat offshore wind farm until the end of April due to a malfunction on the subsea cable some 22 kilometres off the coast, Mathias Fischer, a spokesperson for the grid operator TenneT TSO, told Offshore WIND. The wind farm
Centrica and its 50% joint venture partner EIG Global Energy Partners (EIG) have agreed a joint sale of the 194 MW Lynn and Inner Dowsing offshore wind farms to a consortium comprising the UK Green Investment Bank Offshore Wind Fund and funds managed by BlackRock. The overall transaction also includ
EnBW and Iberdrola have concluded a contract under which EnBW will provide services for the construction of the Wikinger offshore wind farm in the German Baltic Sea. The two-year contract covers services dealing with the coordination of shipping traffic, health and safety and environmental protectio
