Hafren Power said today that five major global companies spanning engineering, construction, project management and logistics are working with it on its proposal to build a £25 billion, 18km (11 mile) electricity generating barrage across the Severn estuary. Arup, Bechtel, DHL, Mott MacDonald and UR
SgurrEnergy has concluded a one year wind measurement campaign, conducted on the first Offshore Risk Quantification Analysis (ORQA) platform, located near Lamma Island, Hong Kong. The measurement campaign, which began in March 2012, was carried out on behalf of The Hongkong Electric Co., Ltd. (HK El
Marine Scotland has rejected a license application for a project comprising 15 tidal turbines at the Montrose Basin in Scotland, for which a License Application and Environmental Statement were submitted by a pharmaceutical and healthcare company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) in March last year. The authori
The UK Green Investment Bank plc (GIB) has today announced the investment impact of its first five months of operation (up to 31st March 2013): · Committed funds to 11 transactions with a total value of £2.3 billion; · Directly committed £635 million, resulting in a funding ratio that sees £1 from G
The University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center welcomed more than 500 students from 60 Maine schools to the DeepCWind Consortium’s 3rd Annual Windstorm Challenge and the 5th Annual Maine Composites Alliance Wind Blade Challenge on Friday, May 3. The daylong events was held in UM
Yesterday, the transformer station for the offshore wind farm Global Tech I was successfully installed. The offshore platform is a core element of the North Sea wind farm: The power from its 80 wind turbines is gathered here and transformed from 30 to 155 kilovolts. The transmission grid operator wi
Siemens, German multinational engineering and electronics conglomerate company, released a half-yearly report. Peter Löscher, President and Chief Executive Officer of Siemens AG commented: “Results for the second quarter show a mixed picture. While we were able to clearly increase orders, we still h
Arnaud Montebourg, Minister of Productive Recovery, Delphine Batho, Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy, and Frederic Cuvillier, Deputy Minister of Transport, Sea and Fisheries, welcomed the publication of the report on the prospects of development of marine renewable energy, whi
The first transition piece (TP) was grouted at the DanTysk Offshore Wind Farm on location DT01 on the 1st of May. Since the Seafox 5 first entered the DanTysk field it has been too cold for the installation of the TPs. Monopiles have been left standing, just barely visible above the waters surface.
A major programme of offshore works are due to start tomorrow (Thursday, May 9) for the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC) and which could lead to pioneering turbine foundation designs being developed at the more than £230million test facility. The programme involves a series of geotec
Greg Barker, Minster of State for Energy and Climate Change, describes his visit to Falmouth and the FaB Test facility off Falmouth Harbour. FaB Test, is a wave test site developed as a partnership between Falmouth Harbour Commissioners, Wave Hub, the University of Exeter, A&P Group, Cornwall Marine
Vestas maintains its full-year guidance and the focus on cost reductions, low investments and increased capacity utilisation continues. In the first quarter of 2013, Vestas generated revenue of EUR 1,096m – a decrease of 1 per cent to the year-earlier period. EBIT before special items increased by E
Comments from a representative of one of Europe’s largest offshore wind foundation manufacturers on the potential for investing at the planned Able Marine Energy Park on the South Bank of the Humber have been described as ‘very significant—and clear evidence of the Marine Energy Park’s potential to
On Monday, May 6, the Narragansett Town Council voted 5-0 to suspend negotiations with Deepwater Wind, which is developing the Block Island offshore wind farm, in order to gather more information on the project’s local impact. The motion to bring all talks and negotiations with the developer to a st
