Lib Dem MP Ed Davey, the new energy secretary, will today inaugurate the world’s biggest offshore wind farm, reports Bloomberg. The launch will reportedly mark the start of a £33 billion push to expand the sea-based generation of electricity. Walney offshore wind farm consists of 102 Siemens’ 3.6MW
In the future, operators of offshore wind farms will have one point of contact for all technical and service issues: Voith and the SCHRAMM group will pool their vessel design expertise and will jointly develop special vessels for the transfer of staff and material to wind farms in the North and Balt
EDF Energies Nouvelles has started offshore construction work on the Teesside offshore windfarm off the coast of North East England. This 62 MW windfarm is due to start generating by the end of 2012. Located off the coast of Redcar in North East England, the windfarm will be equipped with 27 offshor
A newly developed hydraulic lifting yoke from Danish based Fyns Kran Udstyr has been tested in the world’s largest offshore wind turbine park, London Array. The new way of handling offshore wind turbine foundations is much faster, cheaper and more secure. It no longer needs to take an hour to get re
Ocean Energy Limited, Ireland’s leading wave energy company, is working with Wave Hub, the world’s largest grid connected offshore marine energy test site, to deploy its technology at the site later this year. Cork-based Ocean Energy, in collaboration with its partner Dresser-Rand, one of the larges
GL Renewables Certification appointed Rüdiger Urhahn as Vice President Project Management & Sales, with responsibility for worldwide customer management in the area of certification services, in January 2012. In addition to sales duties, Mr Urhahn has been given the task of overseeing all customer p
Donald Trump, a USA billionaire businessman, has criticized the Aberdeenshire councilor Peter Argyle for not voting against the wind farm offshore his luxury golf resort, STV reports. He said that the “ugly” wind turbines would “destroy” the community. Last month, Trump stopped the work on a hotel a
The marine and hydrokinetic industry, which aims to harness various marine and hydrokinetic resources including ocean waves, tidal streams, river flows, ocean currents, and ocean thermal differences for power generation, stands at a critical point. The technologies are improving, major energy compan
Centrica, a British company engaged in sourcing, generating, processing, trading and storing energy, is going to organize public meetings in order to discuss future windfarm in the Irish Sea, reports BBC. Centrica Plc was awarded the wind farm development rights for the Irish Sea zone in January 201
A blueprint to streamline the scoping, planning and consenting of offshore renewables developments was published today. The report, prepared by a task force comprising Marine Scotland, environmental regulators, renewable developers and The Crown Estate, was welcomed by Alex Salmond as he co-chaired
CWind, the only British company to be awarded a Siemens vessel charter contract out of a European shortlist, today took delivery of CWind Athenia, a 20-tonne payload, multi-purpose catamaran (MPC). CWind Athenia is the second of the work vessels built by CTruk Boats to fulfil CWind’s Siemens contrac
Echoing President Obama’s State of the Union call for additional clean energy development, the US DOI and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has taken a major step towards commercial-scale offshore wind energy leasing by streamlining the development of offshore wind power in the Mid-Atlantic a
Hallin Marine, a Superior Energy Services company, reports a promising start to the year of the Dragon (2012) with four new contracts. Hallin’s West Division heads into battle in search of unexploded 1939-1945 ordnance off the German coast. A Quasar work-class remotely operated vehicle and team are
A team of engineers from Dale Power Solutions have completed an intensive 4 day marine safety training programme, at Narec and South Tyneside College, to enable them to work safely when working on offshore wind sites. Trainees undertook 2 days of Working at Height and Rescue Training on Narec’s 27m
