A series of public exhibitions, which were organized in South Wales, have attracted 294 people who wanted to know more about the Atlantic Array offshore wind farm, says The Wave news site. Visitors had an opportunity to learn details on the results of the environmental assessments, as well as the ch
Together with top representatives of the energy companies EWE, E.ON and Vattenfall, Germany’s economics minister Dr. Philipp Rösler and Lower Saxony’s minister for the environment, Dr. Stefan Birkner, visited alpha ventus this Monday. The flight to Germany’s first offshore farm located 45 km north o
The Mainstream Renewable Power’s recently submitted application for the GBP 1.4 billion offshore wind farm proposes the laying of the 12km underground cable through the East Lothian countryside, reports East Lothian News. The developer plans to install up to 125 wind turbines 15km off the Fife coast
At the end of July, the Stemat Spirit completed laying and burying of the third export cable at London Array and has now left the site. This is the third of four export cables which run from the onshore substation at Cleve Hill to the two offshore substations at the wind farm site. The cables [&hell
Pharos Offshore Group has completed cable repair and burial for the London Array Offshore Wind Farm on a section of damaged subsea export cable. Pharos delivered a work package with the rapid mobilisation of engineering, fabrication and operational teams to locate, recover, re-lay and re-bury the po
HR Wallingford has appointed Samantha Dawson as business manager to work across a portfolio of power sector projects. From 1 August 2012 Samantha will be working with Mark Liddiard, power sector business manager, to support existing projects and to grow new opportunities in the thermal, nuclear and
India aims at exploiting its vast offshore wind potential by generating at least 4500 MW from that source, therefore, the country could soon have an offshore wind energy policy. As the Indian Government has turned to reducing the fossil fuel-based power generation, the proposed policy would involve
Last week Northern Ireland announced the subsidy levels intended for renewables. Support for the onshore wind will be dropped from 1 ROC to 0.9 ROC till 2016/17 with the possibility of further review from 2014/15. For the offshore wind there will be no change until 2015/16 and 2016/17 when the 2 ROC
Following the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ release of the July unemployment statistics, showing that the economy gained 163,000 jobs and the unemployment rate went up to 8.3 percent, Executive Director of BlueGreen Alliance, David Foster, said in a statement: “Today, despite adding 163,000 jobs, the
Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “United Kingdom Infrastructure Report Q3 2012” report to their offering. News that UK construction output fell by the sharpest pace in three years in Q112 highlights the detrimental effect the government’s austerity measures are having on the in
Veka-Group builds a series of catamarans for the offshore industry. The vessel has been specially developed for crew tendering and offers also enough deck space for transporting three 10 ft containers. The first vessel, destined for an operator of a wind farm, will be delivered mid September. Stable
The BlueGreen Alliance has announced that it is ramping up an ongoing campaign over the coming months to urge members of Congress to support immediate action in renewing three important job-creating policies — the Production Tax Credit (PTC) for wind power, the 48C Advanced Energy Project Credit and
Beckhoff will present its PC- and EtherCAT-based automation solutions for wind turbines from September 18 to 22, 2012 at Husum WindEnergy, Germany, the world’s largest wind energy trade show. Beckhoff has automated 7,000 wind turbines with a total output of 11.2 GW in 2011 alone. Worldwide, more tha
British multinational utility company, Centrica, has completed the installation of the first five offshore wind turbines in the North Sea, the Spalding Guardian informs. The company has also finished the work on the second cable through the sea defence at Sutton Bride. As the Sutton Bridge Parish Co
