Lloyd’s Register’s Richard Sadler has taken the decision to step down as CEO at the end of 2015, after eight years in the role. The Lloyd’s Register Group Ltd Board of Directors has announced the appointment of current CFO, Alastair Marsh, as his successor. Since Richard Sadler’s appointment as CEO
CWind has won a contract to supply rigging and cable pull-in services to CT Offshore to support their cable laying project at DONG Energy’s Gode Wind 1 & 2 offshore wind farms. Under the contract, CWind will support the pull-in of the cables at all 97 turbines as well as those connecting the array t
Cape Cod Community College will host a forum on Thursday as part of the “Big Choices” series. The forum titled “Big Choices: Offshore Wind and Community Benefit” aims to accelerate community-based progress toward a sustainable energy future, according to Cape Cod. President of the Board for Cape & I
Offshore WIND’s photo of the day: A look back on Borkum Riffgrund 1 offshore wind farm. Dong Energy has posted the image showing one of the foundations that was installed at the offshore wind farm, as the countdown to installing the final wind turbine begins. In February, power from the first turbin
Tuco Marine Group will supply its 11m ProZero Wind Farm Service Vessel daughter crafts to the two Ulstein X-stern vessels ordered by the German based Bernhard Schulte affiliate WINDEA Offshore GmbH. The daughter crafts, to be delivered in Q2 and Q3 2016, is from the newly developed ProZero series. T
Renewable energy use in Ireland increased by 10% in 2014, while consumption of fossil fuels fell 1.2%. That is according to provisional energy data for 2014 published by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) yesterday. The data also shows that primary energy use fell as the economy grew
From 7 pm on Saturday to 5 pm on Sunday, for 22 consecutive hours, Denmark was being powered by wind energy. For electricity consumers west of Storebælt, the period in which the entire power consumption was covered by wind turbines was even longer – 31 hours. According to Torsten Hasforth, chief con
The Crown Estate, manager of the UK seabed, has welcomed news that E.ON has confirmed it will invest in and build the £1.3 billion, Rampion Offshore Wind Farm, which will be situated 13 km off the Sussex coast, alongside its partner in the project, the UK Green Investment Bank plc (GIB). Huub den Ro
South Boats IOW Ltd., the UK’s manufacturer of Wind Farm Crew Transfer Vessels (CTV’s), has welcomed Rhode Island Fast Ferry’s order for a South Boats 21m with US licensee from Blount Boats Inc. Ben Colman of South Boats IOW Ltd said: “We have been working with Blount Boats for over 3yrs and it is f
TenneT will hold a converter station Open Day in Heede on Saturday, May 23, when three converter stations for grid connection projects DolWin1, DolWin2 and DolWin3 will be visited. TenneT has realized a total of twelve offshore grid connection projects, six of which are already in operation, two mor
2014 was the first full financial year of the DNV GL Group AS (DNV GL) following the merger between DNV and GL. “While both managing the ambitious merger and maintaining a full focus on providing premium service to our customers, we also increased our revenues by 10%, achieving an operating revenue
Developments on Hull’s Alexandra Dock started to shape up with a new footpath and cycle route that have been officially opened on Friday, May 15. The three-kilometre pathway represents an investment of £2million and is the first element of the Green Port Hull development on Alexandra Dock to be open
Ming Yang has entered into share purchase agreements (“SPAs”) pursuant to which it has acquired a 99% stake in China Smart Electric Group Limited (“China Smart”), a Cayman Islands company. China Smart owns all of the equity interest in Wise Renergy Holdings Limited, a Hong Kong company, which in tur
Following the retirement of Mike Waldock in June of this year, Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) has appointed Rear Admiral Tom Karsten as the Chief Executive of Centre for Environment Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas). Karsten takes up the role, on leaving the Royal N
