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  • Repayment Terms of Existing Loan Facility Extended (UK)

    24 December 2010

    SeaEnergy (AIM: SEA) today announces that it has agreed an extension to the terms of an existing £3.8 million loan facility until 31 January 2011, the facility is provided by LC Capital Master Fund, Ltd (“LC”), a major shareholder in SeaEnergy. This follows an announcement on 30 September 2010 that LC had agreed an increase […]

  • UK Energy Minister Reaffirms Government’s Commitment to Wave and Tidal Power

    28 February 2013
    Authorities

    RenewableUK has welcomed comments made by the Energy and Climate Change Minister Gregory Barker in his opening speech at the trade association’s Annual Wave and Tidal Conference in London, in which he declared that “now is the time for the next bold steps – moving from individual projects to large scale arrays”.  Addressing over 500 […]

  • Oceanflow to Advance Its Tidal Energy Device with GBP 300,000

    6 March 2014
    Authorities, Business & Finance, R&D, Technology

    Tidal energy developer, Oceanflow Energy Limited, has attracted a £300,000 package of support to further develop and commercialise its second generation tidal energy device, Evopod. The company, which has been supported by Scottish Enterprise through its WATERS scheme, has developed and patented a technology to generate electricity from tidal streams and ocean currents. Its product, […]

  • UK: MSS Provides Seabed Information for Marine Renewable Developers

    9 May 2012
    R&D

    Since 2009, Marine Scotland Science (MSS) has dedicated cruise time from its survey vessels, the MRV Scotia and the MRV Alba Na Mara to survey areas of interest to Scotland’s emerging marine renewables industry. This work has included covering areas under development for Pelamis projects in the waters off Orkney, Shetland, Lewis and the northern […]

  • Windfarm Update: Race Bank, Rampion, Walney Extension, EnBW Baltic 2, Gode Wind 1 & 2, Sandbank

    13 November 2015

    Race Bank In July, A2SEA won a contract to provide the SEA CHALLENGER offshore installation vessel for the installation of wind turbines at DONG Energy’s Race Bank offshore wind farm from early 2017. Also, MMT has been contracted to carry out unexploded ordnance (UXO) inspections and removal MMT along the export cable routes and within […]

  • UK: Crown Estate to Announce Wave and Tidal Leases

    20 April 2012

    The rapid development of renewable energy capacity is central to the delivery of the EU’s target of a 20 % renewable energy contribution by 2020. Wave and tidal energy is expected to provide a share of the UK’s renewable electricity by this date. As part of this, The Crown Estate is offering interested organisations opportunities […]

  • Bowtech Supplies Vision System to Assist Installation of Scotland’s First Tidal Energy Project

    23 May 2012

    Bowtech Products Ltd. (‘Bowtech’), a market leading manufacturer and supplier of cameras, LED lighting, connectors, fiber optic multiplexers and slip rings for use in underwater or hazardous area applications, to any ocean depth, has announced that they have supplied a vision system, to assist the installation of Scotland’s first tidal energy project. The 1MW HS1000 […]

  • Scotland to Fund Offshore Wind Cost-Cutting Project with GBP 2.2 Mln

    14 July 2014
    Authorities, Business & Finance, R&D

    A project to cut the cost of offshore wind by at least 10% is being awarded £2.2 million by the Scottish Government, First Minister Alex Salmond has announced. The Carbon Trust’s Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA) programme, a joint industry and government scheme, brings together nine offshore wind developers with over 72% (31GW) of the UK’s […]

  • Spain: IREC to Organise Symposium on Offshore Wind Technologies (OffWindTech)

    14 May 2013

    IREC to organise the Symposium on Offshore wind technologies (OffWindTech) in the frame of the project KIC-Offwindtech. The aim of this project is to identify the main challenges and limitations in offshore, especially deep water offshore wind energy, and to seek and analyze viable alternatives in the field of power transmission, and offshore blades. [mappress] […]

  • Lithuania Plans to Relaunch Second Offshore Wind Tender

    28 August 2024
    Authorities, Planning & Permitting

    Lithuania’s Ministry of Energy has proposed a new date for the second offshore wind auction to award a 700 MW project in the Baltic Sea, following a pause of the initial process in April due to a lack of qualified bids. At the start of this year, Lithuania’s National Energy Regulatory Council (NERC) launched the […]

  • TetraSpar Demonstrator Floater Hooks to Norwegian Mainland

    26 August 2021
    R&D, Technology

    The TetraSpar Demonstrator floating wind turbine has been connected to the Norwegian mainland, RWE said. The fully-assembled floating wind turbine, comprising the TetraSpar floating foundation and a 3.6 MW Siemens Gamesa direct-drive wind turbine, was towed from Denmark and installed at the METCentre test site off the island of Karmøy near Stavanger in late July. […]

  • ENGIE Fabricom Starts Cathodic Protection Inspection Offshore UK

    9 November 2020
    Operations & Maintenance

    ENGIE Fabricom has secured a contract to analyse the current performance and suitability of over 50 monopile foundations at a wind farm off the UK. Operating from five sites located across the UK, the company has been commissioned to carry out complete cathodic protection and pH monitoring of the internal water within each monopile on […]

  • Chinese Jack-Up Installs Its First Turbine

    16 April 2019
    Vessels

    Huadian Wenqiang, the Chinese self-elevating jack-up vessel, has installed its first turbine at an offshore wind project. According to Hengtong Group, the vessel installed the turbine at the project site offshore Zhanjiang in the Guangdong Province on 9 April. The company said the construction site is located in a typhoon-prone area with complex geological sea conditions, extreme working […]

  • Siemens Gamesa, REBO Ink SeaMade Deal

    17 December 2018
    Contracts & Tenders, Ports & Logistics, Wind Farm Update

    On 14 December, Siemens Gamesa and REBO (Renewable Energy Base Oostende) signed a contract for Belgian SeaMade offshore wind farm, which will feature 58 Siemens Gamesa offshore wind turbines. 

  • Horns Rev 3 Monopiles Stand Ready (VIDEO)

    9 January 2018
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    GeoSea’s heavy-lift jack-up Innovation installed the 49th and final monopile on Vattenfall’s Horns Rev 3 offshore wind farm in the Danish North Sea just after the New Year. 

  • VIDEO: VBMS and Boskalis Getting Busy at Rampion

    20 December 2016
    Grid Connection, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    In December 2016, VBMS completed the installation of two 16 kilometre-long 150kV HVAC export cables for the Rampion offshore wind farm situated off the coast of Worthing, UK. To overcome some environmental challenges in this very shallow water, VBMS had to extend the pre-installed landfall HDD’s with duct extensions of approximately 480 metres each. VBMS […]

  • Top News of the Week, 24 – 30 October

    30 October 2016
    Business & Finance, Environment, Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology, Training & Education, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    DONG Marks 1000th Turbine in Water DONG Energy has become the first company worldwide to have installed 1,000 offshore wind turbines, after recently installing the landmark turbine at the Gode Wind 2 offshore wind farm in German North Sea. DONG Upgrades Tendering System DONG Energy has added a new category covering geotechnical investigation services in […]

  • Columbia Power to Deploy StingRAY at Navy’s WETS

    26 November 2014
    Technology

    Columbia Power Technologies has announced its newest project – the open-water demonstration of a utility-scale StingRAY at the US Navy’s Wave Energy Test Site (WETS).  It is the culmination of an intensive product development effort that includes over 10,000 hours of in-water, scaled prototype testing. The grid-connected StingRAY deployment at WETS, which is located off […]

  • Van Oord-Led Consortium Wins Borssele Demo Site Tender

    6 April 2018
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders, R&D, Wind Farm Update

    Two Towers BV, a consortium comprising Van Oord Renewable Finance, Investri Offshore and Green Giraffe Holding has won the Dutch tender for the fifth site at the Borssele zone, designated as the demonstration site for innovations in offshore wind.

  • DTU Develops New Wind Turbine Monitoring Method

    5 May 2017
    Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology

    Researchers from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) have developed a simple method for monitoring wind turbines using the symmetry created by the wind turbine when the blades rotate.

  • Marine Designs Completes First Floating Jetty Project (UK)

    3 August 2011
    R&D, Technology

      The first ever floating jetty project on Lake Windermere has been completed by Marine Designs Ltd, part of the A&P Group. Marine Designs Ltd, based in Falmouth, Cornwall, designs and builds heavy-duty pontoon systems, many of which are used in the offshore wind renewable sector. The company designed and installed Brockhole Jetty, on the […]

  • USA: Northwest Energy Angels Invests in Columbia Power Technology

    24 February 2012
    Business & Finance

    The Northwest Energy Angels, the Pacific Northwest’s only angel group focused exclusively on providing early-stage capital to cleantech entrepreneurs, continued its mission of building a vibrant cleantech community in 2011 by investing more than $880,000 in nine cleantech companies, one receiving a second round of funding.  “Despite the economic downturn, our members continued to support […]

  • Next level wave intelligence for Floating Wind Farms. (FOWF)

    12 October 2020

    Harvesting wind energy from far offshore has significant advantages. At the same time, it introduces many challenges and some unknown issues still yet to be faced. They are installed far from shore, in deeper waters, in the middle of harsh marine environments where local sea state conditions can instantly change, while turbines are exposed to […]

  • Dominion Energy Says 2.6 GW Virginia Offshore Wind Farm On Budget and Schedule, Plans to Bring In Project Partner

    7 September 2023

    While a number of US offshore wind projects are now seeking to alleviate financial pressures, Dominion Energy’s 2.6 GW Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) commercial project remains on budget and on schedule, according to the company, which also plans to bring in a minority shareholder to “de-risk” the project. On 5 September, Dominion announced that […]

  • U.S. President Obama Sets Target for Federal Agencies: 20% Renewables by 2020

    9 December 2013
    Authorities

    United States President Barack Obama released a presidential memorandum on December 5, in which he guides all federal agencies to pursue a target of generating 20% of energy from renewable sources by 2020. In order to create a clean energy economy that will increase our Nation’s prosperity, promote energy security, combat climate change, protect the […]

  • UK: SeaRoc Installs Anemometry Platform for Narec Blyth

    14 November 2012

    Novel tripod installation in 37m deep waters to validate wind conditions for the largest independent offshore wind demonstration site proposed in the UK. The National Renewable Energy Centre, Narec, has completed the installation of an offshore research and anemometry platform, three nautical miles off the coast of Blyth, Northumberland, next to the nearest shore array […]