French Minister for Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy, Ségolène Royal, yesterday announced six new measures to accelerate the development of renewable energy and thus faster creation of “green” jobs. Minister Royal introduced an offshore wind amendment that could allow competitive dialogue
GEV Wind Power has been named as a finalist for two categories in the prestigious UK Energy Innovation Awards, which recognise the projects, technologies and talent at the forefront of innovation within the energy sector. The company has been shortlisted for the Best Offshore Renewable Energy Innova
South Korean CS Wind Corporation has been awarded Regional Growth Funding from the UK Government Department for Business Innovation & Skills (BIS) to build an offshore wind tower manufacturing facility in the Humber, UK. However, the company will not start the construction of what would be first fac
French and Indonesian marine energy technology companies have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to supply low cost renewable electricity to remote areas of Indonesia. SABELLA, PLP and MEINDO signed an MOU on February 11, with an aim to produce and deploy turbines with a 100 kW-2,500 kW capa
UK Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg announced today that CTruk has been selected to receive funding through Round 6 of the UK Government’s Regional Growth Fund. CTruk said that this advances its plans to build larger vessels for offshore wind and diversify for sustainable growth. The £1 million RGF
Steve Klein, Snohomish County Public Utility District (SnoPUD) CEO has announced his retirement from the utility, effective May 1, 2015. Over the nine years Klein has been instrumental in the research and development of multiple renewable energy sources, including wind, solar, biomass/biogas and s
An Indonesian state-owned company engaged in oil, gas, new and renewable energy, Pertamina, and Akuo Energy, a French independent renewable energy power producer, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the development of new and renewable energy for electricity throughout Indonesia. Thi
German engineering company, Bilfinger, is selling its offshore wind and marine units. The company made the announcement as part of its 2014 financial year report where they stated the “business no longer complies with Bilfinger’s risk profile.” Nevertheless, the company predicts these businesses to
MPI Adventure has installed the first of eighty Siemens 3.6MW turbines for E.On Renewables’ Amrumbank offshore wind farm, located 35 kilometers to the north of the island of Helgoland. “We are confident that we will soon be able to feed electricity generated by the first turbines into the public gri
Deutsche Windtechnik AG reported an increase in 2014 turnover of 38 per cent, EUR 72 million, compared to the previous year. The increase in business was mainly based on intense expansion of international service work onshore as well as offshore. The company now holds fixed maintenance contracts for
Vestas issued its annual report for 2014 today, which was the first year in the implementation of Vestas’ new strategic plan, Profitable Growth for Vestas, and it proved to be a year of strong performance. Compared to 2013, general performance substantially improved due to a successful execution of
Energinet.dk is in the process of sourcing the major technical components that are to be used for the grid connection of the future offshore wind farm at Kriegers Flak and has recently purchased the cables that are to connect the offshore wind turbines to the power grid on Zealand, Denmark. Contract
ABB has won an order worth over $100 million from Energinet.dk, the Danish transmission system operator, to build an alternating current (AC) cable system that will enable the integration and transmission of power from the Kriegers Flak offshore wind farm to the mainland grid. The 600MW cable system
First Subsea will launch a new monopile interface connector for offshore wind monopiles and top tension connector for floating wind turbines on stand A-D8 at EWEA Offshore 2015. “First Subsea connector technology gives installation companies the ability to significantly reduce cable installation and
