Norwegian energy company Statoil will hold three public consultations to update on the progress and answer questions regarding its floating wind farm project, the Portland Press Herald writes. Statoil is planning to build a demonstration floating wind farm off the coast near Boothbay Harbor. In 2011
FoundOcean announces that Ambienta SGR, Europe’s largest private equity fund focused on the environmental sector, has signed an agreement to acquire a 35% stake in the company. Jim Bell, Managing Director at FoundOcean explained, “We are delighted that Ambienta has chosen to invest in FoundOcean as
Principle Power, Energias de Portugal, Repsol, A. Silva Matos (ASM), Vestas Wind Systems A/S and InovCapital announced the inauguration of Portugal’s first offshore wind turbine on June 16th, 2012. The turbine is installed on an innovative floating foundation called the WindFloat. In addition to bei
A UK-based renewables energy developer Renewable Energy Systems Ltd. (RES) could buy shares in offshore wind projects. Chris Morgan, CEO of the RES Offshore unit, said that the involvement in offshore projects in the future is a strategically interesting area that the company will look to get into,
Off the coast of Borkum, the construction phase starts on Riffgat offshore wind farm, developed by EWE in collaboration with Enova. After about twelve years of planning time, the first of a total of 30 foundation piles (monopiles) has been installed into the seabed. It is up to 70 meters long and ha
The US Offshore Wind Collaborative (USOWC) announced Barbara Hill, a current board member and the former head of Clean Power Now, as the new Interim Chairman to their board of directors, the Offshore Wind Wire news site reported. Hill said that there is a great opportunity in this moment to transfor
Offshore Marine Group, owners of Offshore Marine Management (OMM), has announced that due to the growth and success of its personnel department it has launched a separate company called Main Source Offshore People Ltd (MSOP) with the existing team. There will be no change to the personnel team or ma
While ports such as Hull, Bremerhaven or Esbjerg might be ready to grab the most important developments, there are potential rich pickings for many other ports which are unable to win the headline projects. As the Portstrategy news portal writes, Richard Marks, business development director at Royal
The so-called finance gap could be a drag on UK offshore wind deployment, according to a poll conducted at the RenewableUK Global Offshore Wind 2012 Conference in London. The survey, which was conducted by global renewable energy consultant GL Garrad Hassan, revealed that 59% of participants thought
Siemens has launched its new Round 3 website at the Global Offshore Conference at ExCel, London (13-14 June). Siemens, a leading provider of global wind power solutions, unveiled its vision for Round 3, the largest offshore wind programme to date, with the launch of a new dedicated website. Focused
The wind power sector is growing and Vattenfall is continually expanding its presence in the booming industry. Wind power is one of the areas where the company intends to increase its investments in the years ahead. 15 June is Global Wind Day, a good opportunity to look at the importance of wind pow
Stroud based green energy company, Ecotricity, is planning to generate power from sea waves. Founder Dale Vince said to Utility Week that the company is on track to deploy the Searaser prototype by autumn. Searaser pumps seawater using a vertical piston between two buoys – one on the surface of the
The British Embassy in Seoul has awarded a contract to the Korea Maritime University (KMU) and IT Power (ITP) to establish the “UK-Korea Ocean Energy Technology Co-operation Project”. This follows closely after the accord between Renewable UK and the Korean Wind Energy Industry Association (KWEIA) w
Voith has announced the appointment of Carsten J. Reinhardt as Member of the Corporate Board of Management of Voith GmbH and as President and CEO of Voith Turbo GmbH & Co. KG. As of July 1, 2012, Reinhardt will succeed Dr. Hubert Lienhard who had held this function since January 1, 2012 in addition
