U.K. utility Scottish and Southern Energy PLC (SSE.LN) Monday said it had purchased a 15% stake in Burntisland Fabrications Ltd., or BiFab, [mappress] Source: easybourse, April 12, 2010;
Kingston was approved for Ontario’s first offshore wind power project last week, yet no regulations exist governing where turbines can be… [mappress] Source: thewhig, April 14, 2010;
Danish state-owned DONG Energy has bid to build one of the world’s biggest offshore wind parks, a 400-megawatt farm expected to cost 10… [mappress] Source: ibtimes, April 07, 2010;
Eying the vast potential for establishing wind farms at sea, companies along Norway’s west coast are making the leap from offshore oil to… [mappress] Source: ow, April 07, 2010;
The construction of offshore wind turbines south of Kingsville could threaten the safety of drinking water for 60,000 people, says Union… [mappress] Source: wind-watch, April 03, 2010;
China’s first offshore wind farm, a 102-megawatt array that’s set to come to full power this month in the Yangtze River delta near Shanghai, [mappress] Source: technologyreview, April 05, 2010;
During the next five years, the production of offshore wind farms will far outpace the production of land-based wind turbines as nations… [mappress] Source: marketwire, April 05, 2010;
Technotex/Ultralift, Supporting Industry Manufacturer to the Cargo Equipment Experts global network for asset based companies, active in the [mappress] Source: breakbulk, April 05, 2010;
Projects to develop Romania’s untapped potential in offshore wind parks in the Black Sea are now moving up a gear, according to Petru Ruset, [mappress] Source: thediplomat, April 06, 2010;
But there may be a way to ensure a steady supply of wind, according to a new study in the April 5 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The key? Sea breezes (and a lot of expensive wiring).
Siemens Energy has been contracted by EWE AG and ENOVA GmbH & Co KG to supply 30 wind turbines for the Riffgat wind farm in the North Sea. With a total installed capacity of 108 megawatts (MW) the wind farm will supply approximately 100,000 German households with ecofriendly electricity starting in
A NEW report by a powerful committee of MPs is set to spark a major row over who has the legal rights to the seabed round Scotland’s coast… [mappress] Source: theherald, 2 April, 2010
Norfolk, VA – Yesterday Governor McDonnell signed into law several bills that promote the development of an offshore wind industry in Virginia. These bills were part of the legislative package of the Virginia Offshore Wind Coalition (VOW), a stakeholder organization formed in 2009 by localities, man
NaiKun Wind submitted a proposal to BC Hydro in November 2008 for a 396MW offshore wind energy project to be built in the Haida Energy Field [mappress] Source: marketwire, April 01, 2010;