UK-based design, engineering and technology company Enventi announced that John Smith has joined the company as shareholder and Director and in conjunction, has launched a significant initiative aimed at producing a fullyintegrated design for an offshore wind farm, deployable at £100/MWh. John bring
German industry is planning to invest in construction and modernization of 84 large power generation plants. The capacity of planned and installed projects is 42,000 megawatts with the total investment volume of more than EUR 60 billion. Some 69 plants out of the 84 projects are undergoing permittin
Ports of Normandy Authority (PNA) will introduce itself as a major European port in the offshore-wind-farm and tidal-energy field of renewable marine energies at Multimodal 2012, in Birmingham (UK), from 1 to 3 May 2012. More particularly, Cherbourg is set to be used as the industry-and-assembly hub
The Marine Offshore Renewables (MOR) group was officially launched last week and is already attracting a lot of interest from the marine renewables sector here in Devon and Cornwall and nationwide. The launch event in Saltash saw speakers from Cornish marine renewables companies A&P Group, Mojo Mari
Narec (National Renewable Energy Centre) has officially submitted an application to the Marine Management Organisation for permission to develop the Blyth Offshore Wind Demonstrator Centre, reported News Post Leader. Narec has placed the infrastructure for an offshore demonstration platform with gri
The joint DONG Energy and Siemens team will perform the operation and maintenance of the turbines for the next 25 years, and when all the turbines for Walney 2 have been handed over from Construction to Operations later this year, there will be 102 turbines in total. The dialogue has started regardi
FREE entry for business people is available to the exhibition hall of the Renewing The Humber conference during part of the day on May 1. People not already coming to the event as delegates, can take the opportunity visit the stands and learn more about the industry, network with business leaders an
According to Bdaily, four UK companies along with Humber Local Enterprise Partnership held a meeting with Danish offshore wind companies at EWEA 2012 exhibition. ABP, AbleUK, Danbrit Shipping and Wind Power Support presented the growth of the Operations & Maintenance Centre at Grimsby, as well as th
On 6 April 2012, the last of the 51 turbines in Walney 2 exported its first power to the grid, and a big milestone in the project was reached. “We’ve completed the construction of the world’s largest offshore wind farm within only two years. This is a major achievement by the project team, and I [&h
Last week OWI-Lab and research partner VUB (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) have been awarded by EWEA for having the best scientific poster in Denmark during its annual four day conference. The poster handles about the first offshore tests and measurements performed by OWI-Lab at Belwind (the 2nd offsho
Yesterday, Energy Minister Martin Lidegaard asked the state-owned company Energinet.dk to start feasibility studies for two proposed wind farms, 400MW Horns Rev 3 and 600MW Kriegers Flak. The work includes studies of marine mammals, birds and how parks could affect navigation. Energinet.dk will also
Austal has taken further steps in implementing its strategy to regionalise its operations to better serve and grow its international client base. Following the acquisition of its Philippines shipyard last year, the company has now broadened its sales and support organisations in the key Europe, Asia
Three men have already lost their lives, and 80 of them have experienced serious accidents while working on German offshore wind farms, according to Focus magazine. Polish worker and a Swedish diver have died while working on BardOffshore wind farm, located 100 kilometres northwest of the isle Borku
UPC Renewables Indonesia Ltd (“UPCI”) announced on April 20, with its local development partner PT Binatek Reka Energi, the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”) between The Directorate of Various New Energy and Renewable Energy, Directorate General of New Renewable Energy and Energy Cons
