Power from the last five turbines of the Teesside Offshore Wind Farm is scheduled to begin flowing this month. The project’s 22 turbines are already producing power, while engineering work is underway to put the last 5 in operation so that the Teesside offshore wind farm would become fully operation
AVEVA announced that it has joined the Esbjerg-based network Offshoreenergy.dk. The network focuses on building collaboration across the Danish oil & gas, offshore and wind energy industries. ‘The majority of the Danish offshore activity is in the Norwegian and British areas of the North Sea, where
Nordic marine energy technology leader Minesto, with a marine power plant that is able to cost efficiently produce electricity from low velocity tidal and ocean currents, has appointed Dr. Heije Westberg as the company’s new Chief Technology Officer. Dr. Heije Westberg has previously been Manager fo
Offshore wind energy continues to experience an increasing share of the electricity generation market in Europe. Both the UK and Germany have set up ambitious goals to further expand their offshore wind energy capacity. Relatively smaller countries such as Belgium for example are also stepping up th
The Iberdrola USA Foundation, in conjunction with Fundacion Iberdrola of Spain and Scottish Power have announced this year’s Iberdrola Scholarship Program for Energy and Environment Postgraduate Studies in the U.S. recipients. The following students will receive more than $300,000 in total for gradu
Driving home the point that the end of Cape Wind is near, the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound launched a new radio campaign across the Cape and the Islands. The radio spots highlight the costly threats associated with the proposed massive wind turbine project that would be located in Nantucket S
HR Wallingford’s noise model within its Hydro-Acoustic Model for Mitigation and Ecological Response (HAMMER) tool has been validated using pin-piling and ambient noise data collected from a boat based hydrophone during the construction of the SeaGen tidal turbine in Strangford Lough, in Northern Ire
The Scots would pay the highest power bills in the world in an independent Scotland, as they would have to import electricity from England. The country’s current energy policy, which requires production of 100% renewable energy by 2020, and unreliability of wind power would lead to paying for import
David Cameron’s planning minister Nick Boles, has been stripped of his wind farm planning duties due to the fact that his brother is working for Siemens. Nick Boles was in charge of guidance on wind farms location since September until April, when his brother, chief financial officers for Siemens Wi
The Conservative- Liberal Democrat UK Government has been left embarrassed after suggesting that there are no ports in the North of Scotland, according to the news on SNP’s website. The Press and Journal reported on August 3 that a map included in the new offshore wind strategy – published last week
Together with RWE Innogy, FoundOcean is currently working on the 48-jacket Nordsee Ost offshore wind farm in the German sector of the North Sea. The project teams are undertaking onshore trials to investigate effective ways of speeding up the foundation installation process. One option under conside
On Thursday, August 8, at 3 p.m. ET, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) invites public to discuss the innovative projects, technologies, and policies that are helping America stay competitive in this booming global industry during a special Google+ Hangout on wind energy in America. During the Hangout,
GL Garrad Hassan has begun a project for the Hawai’i Natural Energy Institute at the University of Hawai’i (HNEI-UH) supporting the institute’s Hawai’i National Marine Renewable Energy Center (HINMREC) wave energy testing program. HINMREC, under funding from the Wind and Water Power Program of the U
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said that the UK Government is doing everything in their power to convince Siemens to advance with its proposal for the Hull facility, reports the Hull Daily Mail. During his visit to North East Lincolnshire, Clegg said: “We are working flat out to seek to persuade S
