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  • Head of RenewableUK to Step Down

    16 September 2015

    The Chief Executive of RenewableUK, Maria McCaffery, will be stepping down next year from her role in the trade association. Julian Brown, Chairman of the Board, announced that Maria has tendered her resignation and will be staying in post until a successor is able to take over the leadership role. This is likely to be […]

  • EPISCentre to Produce Skilled Energy Workers from July

    15 May 2014
    Business & Finance, Training & Education

    A new skills centre to become the focal point for world class energy skills training in the East of England is to be launched in the Great Yarmouth borough in July. The EPISCentre project will start initially from the Minerva House building near the home of EEEEGR, the East of England Energy Group, at Beacon […]

  • NASA Uses Laser to Measure Offshore Wind Speed (USA)

    18 October 2011
    R&D

    Grady Koch is not a weatherman but he knows which way the wind blows.   By Cory Nealon (dailypress) [mappress] Source: dailypress, October 18, 2011

  • Penguin Finishes 3rd Test Season with Success

    11 December 2014
    R&D, Technology

    Wello has successfully completed the third test season of the Penguin wave energy converter. During this test season, the device was deployed on site six months continuously. All components inside the device are still original from 2011 building further confidence to the durability and survivability of the design. The Penguin wave energy converter solution is […]

  • Gwynt y Môr Offshore Wind Farm Tourism Fund Opened in Rhyl, UK

    24 April 2013

    THE FIRST completed project to be funded by RWE npower renewables’ Gwynt y Môr Offshore Wind Farm Tourism Fund was officially opened in Rhyl yesterday. The £250,000 Rhyl Beach Access Project includes a new ramp to make it easier for disabled visitors to get down to the beach, and will also help people wanting to […]

  • Boskalis Harbours EOWDC Foundations at Peterhead Port

    10 August 2017
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Boskalis has awarded Peterhead Port Authority with a contract to harbour the suction bucket jacket foundations for the 11-turbine European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC) in Aberdeen Bay, Scotland.

  • HVDC – Securing supply

    9 October 2013

    When the ‘battle of the currents’ ended in the late 19th century with Westinghouse and the AC lobby victorious over Edison’s DC lobby, AC became the dominant means for transmission of electrical power; a method which was to remain dominant for over a century. AC, with the ability for stepping the voltage up or down […]

  • USA: Grand Valley Students Visit Lake Michigan Research Buoy

    23 July 2013

    A group of Grand Valley student researchers traveled seven miles off the coast of Lake Michigan July 18 to visit the Offshore Wind Assessment research buoy. The students are helping to analyze data collected from the buoy to determine the amount of power that could be created if wind turbines were installed in Lake Michigan. […]

  • UK Monopile Factory Changes Location, New Address at Teesworks

    14 February 2022
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Ports & Logistics

    SeAH Wind Ltd will build a GBP 200-300 million UK XXL monopile manufacturing facility at Teesworks and not at Able UK’s Able Marine Energy Park (AMEP) on the South Bank of the Humber as initially planned. SeAH Wind Ltd, a subsidiary of South Korea’s pipe manufacturer SeAH Steel Holdings, has not specified the reason for […]

  • Fugro to Showcase R30 Marine Drill in Frankfurt, Germany

    13 November 2013

    Fugro Renewables will present a new marine drill, R30, which was built by Fugro Seacore on the Fugro Renewables stand (30A100) at EWEA Offshore in Frankfurt, Germany. The drill was built for the renewables market at Seacore’s facility in Falmouth, UK. Matthew Chappell, Offshore Geotechnics Manager at Fugro Seacore explains: “It is a modular ram […]

  • Electro-Tech Set for Ambitious Growth in Enterprise Zone (UK)

    20 March 2013
    Business & Finance

    This week, Electro-tech, a specialist source and supply company servicing the energy sector, is moving into the Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft Enterprise Zone, created by the New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership. Electro-tech offers UK and global clients a simple and cost effective way to purchase goods from one supplier. Items range from audio cables to […]

  • Support for Offshore Wind Gathers Momentum in New York

    15 August 2017
    Business & Finance, Environment

    New York’s business, environmental, labor, and community leaders gathered yesterday, 14 August, in Rockaway Beach in support of Governor Cuomo’s plan to make offshore wind a key component of the state’s strategy to increase renewable energy and stimulate economic development. This coalition has come together in advance of a series of New York City public […]

  • Vattenfall Reveals Offshore Wind Research Projects

    20 June 2017
    Environment, R&D, Training & Education

    Swedish utility company Vattenfall has announced the first successful projects for its EUR 3 million research programme aimed at examining the environmental and socio-economic impacts of offshore wind farms.

  • Second Hollandse Kust Tender Confirmed for Year-End, Rules Tweaked

    3 October 2018
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders

    The Netherlands will invite tenders for the Hollandse Kust (zuid/south) III & IV offshore wind sites at the end of this year, Eric Wiebes, the country’s Minister of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy confirmed, adding that the upcoming process will see some changes despite running under the old regulation.

  • Energy Minister Announces £4 Mln Grant for Port of Cromarty Firth

    8 August 2014
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Ports & Logistics

    Energy Minister Fergus Ewing has today announced a £4 million grant from Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) for the development of a new deepwater quayside at the Port of Cromarty Firth – bringing the total redevelopment project to £25 million. The 35 acre Invergordon Service Base, operated by the Port of Cromarty Firth, has been […]

  • UK: Francis Brown Recruits Two New Apprentices

    20 June 2012
    Training & Education

    Francis Brown Ltd, the North East engineering company, has asserted its commitment to future skills after taking on new apprentices who trained in the region.  The Stockton-on-Tees firm, which already operates an apprenticeship programme with three advanced apprentices currently training with the company, has now recruited Christopher Brown, 19, from Seaton and Luke Swinborne, 16, […]

  • GE Has the World’s 2nd Largest Order Backlog (Interview)

    18 November 2015

    Eize de Vries has spoken to Anders Søe-Jensen, CEO of GE’s offshore wind unit, at the EWEA 2015 event in Paris, where the company introduced its new Renewable Energy business, following the acquisition of Alstom’s power and grid businesses. GE Offshore Wind’s brand new nacelle factory in St Nazaire is currently manufacturing five Haliade 150-6MW turbines for the US […]

  • Mabey Bridge Makes Senior Sales Appointment to Strengthen Its Offshore Renewables Sector (UK)

    30 April 2013
    Business & Finance

    Mabey Bridge – the UK leading wind turbine tower manufacturer and international bridge builder – has appointed Gerry Voller as Sales Director – Tubular Products. The company – which employs 600 people in the UK and internationally with a turnover exceeding £80m per annum – is expanding and investing in sales leadership as it widens […]

  • Severn Provider Reaches Safe Transfer Milestone at Meerwind

    4 July 2016
    Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    Severn Offshore Services’ 26-metre Crew Transfer Vessel (CTV), Severn Provider, has completed 5,000 safe passenger transfers since starting her charter at the 288MW Meerwind offshore wind farm in the German part of the North Sea in April 2015. The Severn Provider is now in her second season of operation for the same client and since her […]

  • BOEM to Discuss Virginia’s Offshore Renewables Activities

    13 September 2016

    The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will host a Virginia Intergovernmental Renewable Energy Task Force meeting on 22 September in Virginia Beach to discuss the current status of activities offshore Virginia. The meeting will start at 10:00 a.m. and end around 3:45 p.m. with participation during the meeting limited to Task Force members only. A public question and […]

  • Rabobank Issues Report on Offshore Wind Installation Vessels

    21 January 2014
    R&D

    Rabobank has issued a report called Navigating the future of offshore wind energy, which states that a radical redesign of offshore wind energy installation vessels is needed in the long-term to lower installation costs and realise projected capacity growth. The high growth rates in offshore wind energy have led to an influx of new installation […]

  • SeaZone Teams Up with Snowflake to Launch ‘HydroView Now: Features’ (UK)

    9 July 2013

    Comprised of key marine and nautical feature types from vector charting supplied by official International Hydrographic Organisation (IHO) chart producers, HydroView Now: Features is an ideal complement to the free-to-use HydroView Now: Basemap. Delivered through an authenticated geography mark-up language (GML) web feature service, organisations can utilise the service via an application programming interface (API) […]

  • DOE Awards USD 1.1 Mln for Wildlife-Wind Power Study

    11 September 2014
    R&D

    Biodiversity Research Institute (BRI) and collaborators HiDef Aerial Surveying, University of Maine at Orono, and First Wind have received $1.1 million from the U.S. Department of Energy to further develop technology to understand how birds and bats avoid wind turbines. The collaboration will refine a stereo-optic, high-definition camera system already under development by HiDef Aerial […]

  • USA: Narragansett and Deepwater Wind Discuss Block Island OWF Transmission Route

    4 July 2013
    Grid Connection

    A meeting between the Narragansett Town Council and the CEO of Deepwater Wind, Jeff Grybowski, was held on June 26 in the Town Hall, where they discussed a transmission route for the proposed Block Island offshore wind farm, The Block Island Times writes. The transmission line comprises a subsea cable from the offshore wind farm, […]

  • Triton Knoll Moving Into Turbine Installation Phase

    6 October 2020
    Ports & Logistics, Wind Farm Update

    The first turbine components for the Triton Knoll wind farm are expected to arrive at MHI Vestas’ logistics and pre-assembly hub in the Able Seaton Port in Hartlepool next month. MHI Vestas has now moved in to Able Seaton Port in preparation to start installing 90 of its V164-9.5 MW turbines at the site 32 […]

  • The Netherlands: Post Workboats Develops New Vessel for Offshore Industry

    30 July 2012
    Operations & Maintenance

    Post Workboats has developed a unique Tornado RIB with water jet propulsion especially for the offshore and the wind farm industry. “It is the first time that such a RIB has been equipped with water jets”, says entrepreneur Klaas Post. “And what is more it offers many important advantages. With water jets you can maneuver […]