The Crown Estate announces the award of development rights for three offshore renewable energy sites in Northern Ireland’s coastal waters. This follows competitive tender processes over the last ten months that attracted significant interest from national and international renewable energy developme
A multi-million pound renewable energy investment fund (REIF), geared to stimulating greater levels of private finance into innovative green power and renewable district heating projects in Scotland, was opened for business by First Minister Alex Salmond today. As senior figures from green energy, f
SSE and Scottish Enterprise (SE) are to invest up to £20 million to create an offshore wind turbine test centre, capable of hosting three full scale wind turbines designed for offshore deployment. SE has committed up to £4.3 million from the National Renewables Infrastructure Fund towards the joint
Energy and Climate Change Secretary Edward Davey is in Scotland this week highlighting the massive benefit for jobs and business, the energy sector can bring as he visits Shetland, Orkney, Caithness, Edinburgh and Glasgow. On Monday Ed Davey started his visit in Shetland, visiting Burradale wind far
As Areva prepares for its meet-the-buyer event at OrbisEnergy on October 23, the company advises wind industry suppliers to use the German offshore wind market now, in order to get the UK’s Round 3 contracts more easily. Head of the Areva’s UK wind sector, Julian Brown, is quoted by the EDP24 news s
Under the direction of the Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy, Timmons Group collaborated with researchers and scientists from the Virginia Center for Wind Energy at James Madison University and WeatherFlow Inc. to develop the Wind, Weather and Energy Viewer on the recently deployed V
Results of a study presented Wednesday at the American Wind Energy Association’s (AWEA) offshore wind conference in Virginia indicate that large-scale offshore wind projects on the Mid-Atlantic would significantly contribute to the employment rate and economy of the region’s states. Over 70,000 jobs
The contract is for the construction of one Installation Support Vessel, with option for one additional vessel. The associated gross project cost for the first vessel, ready for operation, is approx. USD 55 million. The firm vessel is scheduled for delivery in March 2014. The vessel, which shall hav
Ramboll has acquired Danish wind energy consultancy LAC engineering, which was established in 2008. The company specialises in the optimisation of the relation between the energy production and a cost-effective design basis for on- and offshore wind turbines. Globally, few companies offer the same c
Maine’s new online wind energy-ME supply-chain product and business locator will be demonstrated on October 9 -11 in the Maine Wind Industry Pavilion – booth 326 – at the AWEA Offshore WINDPOWER at the Virginia Beach Convention Center in Virginia, VA. “The online wind energy-ME supply-chain product
The success of the North American offshore renewable energy industry will depend as much on future, sustained investment in technological innovation, as it will on backing pioneering offshore power projects. That is according to GCube, the leading provider of underwriting services for renewable ener
In little over a month, the first-ever Offshore Wind Energy Summit with an exclusive focus on grids, foundations and installation technology will take place in Hamburg, the principal location for offshore wind in Europe. More than 150 senior level wind industry executives – already comprised of 25 U
The installation of transition pieces is nearing completion on the Teesside offshore wind farm. The 22nd yellow coloured transition piece was recently installed with work underway on the next. The transition pieces sit on top of all the 27 foundation monopiles. Elsewhere, work has also started on th
With offshore wind having become a busy and fast emerging business over the past few years, in which money seems to be present in abundance, the industry seems to be blind for lessons learned. Even to the point that fatal accidents have been accepted at a very early stage, in the development phase.
