By granting West of Duddon Sands (WoDS) Transmission plc a licence to own and operate the £269 million transmission link to the West of Duddon Sands offshore wind farm, the total new transmission investment delivered by the OFTO regime to date is over £2.5 billion, of which nearly £1 billion has now
At one of the public hearings on the New Jersey Energy Master Plan (EMP), held by the state’s Board of Public Utilities (BPU), chairman of Senate Environment and Energy Committee, Senator Bob Smith, expressed his support to offshore wind as a valuable renewable energy source. Discussing offshore win
The European Investment Bank (EIB) is providing equity-type financing of up to EUR 75 million to Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) to finance Copenhagen Infrastructure II, an infrastructure fund that is investing in large energy-related projects such as offshore wind, biomass and transmission
50Hertz has received an approval for its Ostwind 1 offshore cable project within the EEZ from Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency of Germany (BSH). “We are greatly pleased with the permit for this last 20 kilometre section in the EEZ. This means that the entire cable route is now approved,” sai
New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU) is planning to hire an outside consultant to advise on offshore wind development. The expert would consult on state regulation, four year in delay from being adopted, needed for offshore wind development, writes New Jersey Spotlight. The regulation would de
The Basque Energy Agency (Ente Vasco de la Energía; EVE) will financially support demonstration and validation of emerging marine energy technologies with EUR 2.5 million. Specifically, subsidies will be made available for pilot projects demonstrating and validating full scale, or almost full scale,
MP Craig Mackinlay opened Vattenfall’s newly refurbished site office in Ramsgate on Wednesday in front of staff and contractors. “Our Operations and Maintenance building is now officially up and running having been refurbished and extended to accommodate more staff. The facilities have also been upg
Navitus Bay has reached an agreement with The Crown Estate to hand back the remaining, unused parts of the original wind farm development zone. This means that the parts of the seabed in the zone that have not been used for the application submitted to the Planning Inspectorate for consent will no l
The Danish Energy Agency (DEA) has extended the deadline for public hearing of EIA for Sæby nearshore wind farm. New deadline for comments is 24 August, 2015. The deadline is extended to give local MPs, in the newly elected parliament, and others a better opportunity to comment on the EIA. This year
Nova Scotia Government has decided to end the community feed-in tariff program after a program review that began in January. “This is the right time to bring COMFIT to a close, it has achieved its objectives,” said Energy Minister Michel Samson. “We are now at a point where the program could begin t
The Crown Estate has announced today the first series of agreements reached with offshore wind developers, including EDF Energy Renewables, Eneco Wind UK Limited (Eneco) and Forewind Limited, to replace their previous zone development agreements with project specific agreements. Since the award of z
The U.S. Energy Department has selected four entities to receive $7.4 million to spur innovation of next-generation water power component technologies, designed for manufacturability and built specifically for marine and hydrokinetic (MHK) systems. The projects will address technical challenges in t
Following the call for proposals, French Environment and Energy Management Agency (ADEME) has published details and documents on all three parts of the call being funded under the Future Investment Program. The call for floating wind proposals aims to support the realization of pilot wind farms acro
The Crown Estate has welcomed the UK Government’s approval of Dogger Bank Teesside A & B offshore wind project. Head of Offshore Wind for The Crown Estate, Huub den Rooijen said: “Today’s announcement marks a great success for the future of the UK’s infrastructure development and is testimony to the
