Award-winning energy services company ROVOP has secured a series of contracts worth a total of £7million for work on major offshore windfarms across Europe. The increasing demand for the services of rapidly-evolving subsea business has also led the company to announce the strengthening of its manage
The Crown Estate today published findings of a new study into the UK’s wave and tidal energy resources, to help inform industry and government about the potential for future projects. The report finds there is potential for tens of gigawatts of wave, tidal stream and tidal range projects at sites ar
The UK could borrow some of its know-how in renewables to Taiwan since both countries have limited resources as they are looking for energy security, writes Focus Taiwan. An engineer from Industrial Technology Research Institute Hu Ssu-yuan thinks that Taiwan should develop offshore wind farms due t
The Northern Ireland Renewables Industry Group (NIRIG) has welcomed the announcement by the Crown Estate of the first round of leasing agreements for Northern Ireland, with the agreements going to First Flight Wind, Tidal Ventures and DP Marine Energy with partner DEME Blue Energy. This will open th
Shimonoseki city in southwestern Japan will see construction of a 60MW wind farm off its coast soon. Kozo Domori, a spokesman of the Maeda Corp., a national engineering company in charge of the project development, confirmed this for Bloomberg. The company is looking for investors in this project wo
SgurrEnergy’s flagship product, Galion Lidar, was deployed last month on FINO1, Europe’s most established offshore met mast. Located in the German North Sea, the offshore research platform is equipped by German Wind Energy Institute, DEWI, with meteorological sensors to study the offshore environmen
Pharos Offshore Group Ltd will be speaking at the Subsea Power Cables Seminar being held on 12th-13th November in London. Pharos Offshore Group will be presenting on cable operations and maintenance for offshore wind farms and interconnections Established in 2009 but incorporating companies that hav
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound and other conservation groups have filed a brief in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia detailing Cape Wind’s numerous violations of federal protections for threatened and endangered specie
The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) released its long-awaited consensus document, AWEA Offshore Compliance Recommended Practices 2012 (OCRP 2012), today at its Offshore WINDPOWER Conference in Virginia Beach. Developed in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable
NWFTC (National Wind Farm Training Centres) have just achieved accreditation to run training courses that meet the GWO (Global Wind Organisation) standard. The first for a UK owned and based company. NWFTC were inspected recently by independent auditor Det Norske Veritas (DNV) and after a glowing re
After arriving at the Port of Tyne a few days ago, MPI Adventure is now installing a weather-testing station including a 750-tonne Met Mast off Blyth’s coast, the News Post Leader reports. MPI Adventure, a wind turbine installation vessel was commissioned by the National Renewable Energy Centre (Nar
As E.ON confirmed that the Newhaven Port will be the O&M site for the Rampion offshore wind project, the Shoreham Port fell out of the picture as well as its ambitions to create 85 engineering jobs. The Shoreham Herald news site says that Peter Davies from Shoreham Port thought that its bid presente
In wind energy, the operating environment, specifications and guidelines change quickly and innovation cycles are short. The demand for safety training is increasing with the expansion of offshore wind energy. So say Germanischer Lloyd and that is one of the reasons why they have added training stan
To connect an offshore wind farm to the electricity network, electrical infrastructure will be needed both onshore and offshore. For Triton Knoll, this is likely to include: – offshore cables running from the offshore wind farm to land on the Lincolnshire coast and underground cables running from th
