Aibel has opened a centre for integrated operations at its Stavanger headquarters. Ten Aibel offices in Norway and internationally will from now on collaborate daily with the help of advanced technology. In the new centre, employees from all ten offices can gather for the same videoconference, as de
Scotland and England are competing to create hub for $52 billion offshore wind industry. Leith, the port area of the Scottish capital, Edinburgh, and the northeast English coastal town of Hartlepool are striving for an investment worth 150 million-pound ($237 million) from a Spanish wind-turbine mak
Gamesa fulfilled 2011 guidance in terms of volume, profitability and financial soundness. It also maintained profitable growth, supported by its globalisation strategy (which enables it to leverage growth in emerging markets and diversify market risks) and a rigorous efficiency programme, which led
Croatia will probably build a 500MW offshore wind farm within the next wave of investments, reports Poslovni, citing Nenad Končar, head of Jadranska Ulaganja. Due to the crisis in the shipbuilding industry, shipyards have turned to the offshore wind energy. The Zagreb-based company is currently doin
Swire Pacific Offshore Operations (Pte) Limited (SPO) today announced the acquisition of Seabed AS, based in Bergen, Norway. Seabed AS was founded in 2008 by Mr Hans Martin Gravdal, who has more than 30 years of experience within a wide range of subsea operations. Mr Gravdal and his experienced team
A new budget proposal has increased a chance for Harwich to become a wind port. More than 100 MPs have written to the Prime Minister David Cameron calling for a dramatic cut to the £500 million a year subsidies for onshore wind farms and more influence for the local people to stop them being built.
Professor Lorne Crerar has been appointed by Ministers as Chair of Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE). Lorne is a founding partner and Chairman of Scottish commercial law firm Harper Macleod LLP, which has offices in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Inverness and has held the part-time Chair of Banking La
RenewableUK, the renewable energy trade association, has welcomed a new report by the Energy and Climate Change Select Committee which calls for an increase in the deployment of wave and tidal power. The Committee Chairman Tim Yeo MP said “Britannia really could rule the waves when it comes to marin
The energy company Eon is in preliminary talks with financial investors so as to discuss the possibility for potential investors to join the company’s offshore wind projects, reported FTD, quoting Mike Angle, CEO of E.ON Climate & Renewables. The new funding would most probably enable the company to
The UK could become a leading exporter of wave and tidal power equipment and expertise if the Government adopts a more visionary approach to developing marine renewables, according to a new report by the Energy and Climate Change Select Committee. Technologies that can harness the power of the sea t
Overseas wave and tidal energy technology developers have to apply, until the end of February, for funds to help them access the “scale” test facilities at EMEC, the Orkney-based European Marine Energy Centre. The MaRINET wave and tidal testing funding scheme runs until March 2015 and further calls
Students living in, or near to, the parish of Graveney with Goodnestone who are looking to go to university to study a subject related to sustainable development, science or engineering, can now apply to the 2012/13 London Array University Bursary Scheme. The scheme, which forms part of our wider co
HOCHTIEF Solutions and Ventizz Capital Partners together want to acquire concessions, develop and sell farms With economic effect from February 1, 2012, HOCHTIEF Solutions and Ventizz Capital Partners have set up a joint venture for the development of offshore wind farms. The two partners each hold
Two wind energy giants receive up to GBP 250 million a year in subsidies, reports North West Evening Mail A Swedish company, Vattenfall, which owns six windfarms in Britain, including the Ormonde windfarm off Walney, will receive GBP 139 million. Dong Energy, a wind power company from Denmark, with
