Innovative subsea design and manufacture group has kicked off 2014 with announcement of securing strategic contracts worth more than £2million over the last quarter. The contracts mean the Hydro Group Plc, specialists in design, engineering and manufacturing of underwater cables and connectors for s
Innovative employees in DONG Energy’s wind business have found a new communication tool that makes it possible to communicate on offshore sites before cables have been uncoiled, and telecommunication poles have been installed. The solution is a small portable 10-foot container containing communicati
Business is already brisk at the new Hull base for energy sector services company CLS Offshore, which was officially opened by city councillor Martin Mancey today. The company have had several serious enquiries from major existing and potential clients since they moved in on January 2nd. “We’ve had
The Northern Ireland Renewables Industry Group (NIRIG) has welcomed comments made on January 30 by Arlene Foster MLA, Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Investment, as she addressed delegates at NIRIG’s annual conference at Hilton Hotel, Belfast. The Minister hailed the contribution that the renewab
Crowd Energy, having completed construction and successful testing of its first generation prototype of the Ocean Energy Turbine, will launch a major Kickstarter campaign in March 2014 to construct a second generation turbine and move the project to (SNMREC) Southeast National Marine Renewable Energ
The European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) has commented on yesterday’s vote of the European Parliament in favour of ambitious climate and energy policy and its support for three binding 2030 targets for renewables, greenhouse gas reductions and energy efficiency in plenary. “The European Parliamen
The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has given the go ahead to Principle Power for the wind energy project offshore Coos Bay, Oregon, having determined that there was no other competitive interest in the area. Principle Power is required to submit a formal plan for their 30 MW pilot proje
The trade fair companies in Hamburg and Husum have now signed the agreement for cooperation as organisers of WindEnergy Hamburg and HUSUM Wind. “That is the formal document setting out what we have been preparing in parallel for many months – the joint industry solution for the arrangement of the wi
A new multi-million pound pontoon has become fully operational at the Gwynt y Môr Offshore Wind Farm base at the Port of Mostyn in North Wales. The 10-berth pontoon will greatly improve the offshore transfer of wind turbine engineers and technicians throughout the construction and operational lifeti
Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) yesterday called for different renewable energy and energy efficiency targets than the European Commission proposed. They criticized the Commission’s recent energy proposals as short-sighted and unambitious. MEPs called for a 40% cut in CO2 emissions, a 30%
Carnegie Wave Energy Limited has announced two successful UK funding applications to support technology development and environmentally sustainable development of commercial CETO projects. Carnegie recently won EU funding from the MARINETs Transnational Access initiative to support wave tank testing
Global wind power capacity has reached a total of 318,137 MW, Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) informed in its market statistics released today. Even though this marks an increase of nearly 200,000 MW in the past five years, the annual market dropped by almost 10 GW to 35,467 MW. According to GWEC,
WaveRoller, the breakthrough wave energy device created by the wave energy developer AW-Energy, has received independent performance verification, taking the wave power industry one step closer to commercialization. An extensive study and performance verification was conducted by the leading technic
Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “HVDC Transmission Market – Forecasts to 2018” report to their offering. The ever increasing demand of energy, with long distance between generation and consumption centers, is poised to change the nature of transmission and distribution. Ironic
