Seeing U.S. renewable energy setting to sea, Alpine Ocean Seismic Surveys seized the emerging opportunity… By Herman K. Trabish (greentechmedia) [mappress mapid=”3964″] Source: greentechmedia, June 13, 2011;
The development of Forewind’s first offshore wind farm, known as Dogger Bank Project One, takes another step forward today with the announcement that the cable connecting the proposed wind farm to the national grid at Creyke Beck, in East Riding of Yorkshire, will come to shore between Fraisthorpe a
German Offshore Wind Farm developer, Trianel, invites tender for development of Borkum West II. Contractor’s tasks will be: Provision of a vessel for traffic control and monitoring of the construction phase of the Offshore wind farm Borkum West II. Use of a vessel for traffic safety programme (VSF),
The former head of international development at Yorkshire Forward has taken on a development role with Able UK – the business behind the … (insidermedia) [mappress] Source: insidermedia, June 10, 2011;
EDP Renováveis, SA (“EDPR”) announces its entry into a partnership with Repsol Nuevas Energias, SA (“Repsol”) to jointly develop up to 2.4 GW of offshore wind projects in the UK. EDPR will lead the partnership with a 60% share in the overall capacity to be developed. Following Repsol’s acquisition o
SMD has been formally presented with a prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise by His Royal Highness, Prince Michael of Kent. His Royal Highness presented the Award in the innovation category as part of a visit to SMD’s head office and manufacturing facility in Wallsend, North East England. During
Mansell has been awarded a contract to build the Renewable Energy Engineering Centre in Didsbury, Manchester for Siemens. The two-storey design and build project will comprise two laboratory areas and an office area for engineering staff. Primary purpose of the building is to establish a test and si
Safe, cost effective and efficient transfer between floating support vessels and offshore wind turbines is a ‘holy grail’ for the offshore wind industry. OSBIT Power (OP) has risen to the challenge, and developed the MaXccess system. MX11/01 was on display at Port of Tyne, South Shields on Thursday
North Carolina’s wind resource is vast; however, no large-scale wind farms have been built onshore or offshore of the Tarheel state. Nearly 4,500 megawatts (MW) of onshore wind resource exists in North Carolina, and another 297,000 MW resides offshore. A single megawatt of wind capacity can generate
Four submerged data collection devices were retrieved in Admiralty Inlet off the shore of Whidbey Island on Wednesday as scientists prepare… By Charlie Bermant (peninsuladailynews) [mappress] Source: peninsuladailynews, June 08, 2011;
OpenHydro, an Irish energy technology company, whose business is the design and manufacture of marine turbines for generating renewable energy from tidal streams has announced plans to recruit a number of additional positions over the next 12 – 18 months. This latest recruitment drive by OpenHydro t
Revolutionary efforts to harness the power of Puget Sound tides took a big step forward today. By Gary Chittim (king5) [mappress] Source: king5, June 08, 2011;
Leif-Arne Langøy has been elected as the new Chairman of the Board of Directors of DNV (Det Norske Veritas). Walter Qvam has been elected as the new Chairman of the DNV Council. In addition, Morten Ulstein has been elected Vice Chairman of the DNV Board. The elections took place at the Council meeti
The UK’s longest river, the Severn, is open for private tidal power projects, the government said. (hydroworld) [mappress] Source: hydroworld, June 08, 2011;
