Located off the coast of North Norfolk in the UK, the 317MW Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm (SSOWF) provides enough energy to power almost 220,000 British homes. It is jointly owned by Norwegian companies, Statoil and Statkraft. During Spring 2014, Statkraft, with responsibility for Operation an
BMT Group Ltd, an international design, engineering and risk management consultancy, has announced that Mr Charles Packshaw has joined the Board of Directors as a non-executive Director. Mr. Packshaw has thirty years’ experience working with financial institutions in the City of London and is curren
The Offshore Wind China Conference & Exhibition, the Wind Farm O&M China Conference & Exhibition, and Distributed Generation China will take place concurrently at Shanghai Mart in Shanghai on 2-4 July 2014. As organizers, the Chinese Renewable Energy Industries Association, the Chinese Renewable Ene
Kincardine Offshore Windfarm Limited, KOWL, has revealed plans for, what could be, the world’s first floating wind array. KOWL, a joint venture between Pilot Offshore Renewables and Atkins, wants to deploy eight wind turbine generators, with individual capacity no less than 6MW, on semi-submersible
This year the team of SeaRenergy will have its own booth for the first time at the Windforce 2014, which will take place from 17 – 19 June 2014 in Bremen, Germany. The company’s specialists of the fields of offshore personnel, logistics, engineering and HSE will be located at the booth. In April, Se
Offshore wind, wave and tidal all play key roles in next week’s All-Energy 2014 (Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre – AECC, 21-22 May). Nearly 11 hours of conference time at the UK’s largest renewable energy exhibition and conference is devoted to offshore wind –including 105 minutes to float
FORCE and its partners will hold a public meeting on Tuesday, May 20, in Parrsboro. They will offer an update on the tidal energy project in the Bay of Fundy, as well as introduce some of their new members. This will be an opportunity to meet and hear from: Minas Energy, Marine Current Turbines (a S
The Association for a Better Long Island (ABLI) has endorsed a proposal by Deepwater Wind to build a 200 megawatt wind farm some 30 miles off the east end of Long Island, calling it “a strategic response to the challenge of providing clean, affordable energy to Long Island.” “Faced with the burden o
Principle Power, Inc. (Principle Power) appointed João Metelo as the Chief Operating Officer and acting Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Metelo joins Principle Power with over 14 years of experience in the energy sector, having held several executive and leading roles with special focus in finance areas
CTruk recently cemented its support of the Motor Neurone Disease (MND) Association with a donation of £20,000 following the delivery of its second CWhisper SWATH workboat. The late naval architect Nigel Warren was heavily involved in the design of the first-in-class CWhisper SWATH, CWind Astute. Nig
Dillinger Hütte supplied around 16,000 tons of, essentially thermo-mechanically rolled, heavy plates in thicknesses up to 85 mm for the Teesside Offshore wind farm monopile foundations. EDF Energy Renewable officially opened the wind farm located in northeastern England on 16th April 2014. The 27 in
Donald Trump arrived in Aberdeen yesterday and once again vowed to fight European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC) in Aberdeen Bay, the STV news site writes. Mr. Trump has been leading a battle against the EOWDC for years, saying that it would ruin the view from his golf course at Menie. He s
The Amsterdam office of law firm Clifford Chance has been advising Gemini offshore wind developers as lead counsel/project counsel since 2011. The offshore wind farm is the largest renewable energy project in both scope and funding ever conducted in the Netherlands. Since 2011, Clifford Chance has a
The ground-breaking ceremony for the onshore converter station took place at the Dörpen West site in Heede, Germany, yesterday. Representatives of Transmission System Operator TenneT, contractor Alstom and the mayors of the joint municipalities of Dörpen and Heede, together with local and regional p