THE latest bid to revive plans for a Severn barrage comes at a time when the renewable energy sector is facing increasing problems. by Chris Kelsey (walesonline) [mappress] Source: walesonline, December 07, 2011; Image: seagen
“RusHydro”, the largest Hydro-company in the country, plans to construct next year a tidal power plant in Murmansk, said Igor Usachev, a tidal energy manager at RusHydro. Russian Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko called the renewable energy direction very important and added that Russia has interests i
IFREMER symposium on the Vulnerability of coastal ecosystems to global change and extreme events, Biarritz, October 2011 Joni Backstrom, Dafydd Lloyd-Jones, Paul English and Nigel Thomas: Regional Environmental Assessment of Potential Impacts on Benthic Ecology from Cumulative Marine Aggregate Dredg
Holyhead Towing Company Ltd. (Holyhead) from Holyhead/Wales and OPUS MARINE GmbH (Opus) from Hamburg/Germany have announced the start-up of a joint venture company to further address the German offshore wind market. The new company will have its headquarters in Hamburg and trade under the already es
THE North Sea is in line for another major jobs boom as almost a third more oil and gas companies prepare to expand into renewables… By Nathalie Thomas (scotsman) [mappress] Source: scotsman, December 07, 2011; Image: repower
Joe FitzPatrick and Shona Robison have expressed their continued confidence in Dundee’s future as a centre for renewables manufacturing… By Alan Wilson (thecourier) [mappress] Source: thecourier, December 07, 2011
TEESSIDE has been named as a national centre of excellence in offshore wind power. By Jez Davison (nebusiness) [mappress] Source: nebusiness, December 07, 2011; Image: teesvalleyunlimited
The idea of putting industrial-scale wind turbines off the shores of a tourist-dependent beach community was not an issue in Egmond aan Zee… By Dave Alexander (mlive) [mappress] Source: mlive, December 07, 2011; Image: noordzeewind
SCOTLAND’S tenth Green Energy Awards celebrated the successes of the renewables industry on the 1 December 2011 with the largest ever ceremony. Among the winners were First Minister, Alex Salmond, for Best Politician and Richard Yemm, founder of wave power company, Pelamis, for his outstanding contr
The appointment of Arthur Hollmann has enabled Bluestream Offshore to gain a vital foothold in the Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) market, complementing its existing Specialist Services capability. Certified by the Netherlands Directive Detection and Clearance of Conventional Explosives (BRL-OCE),
THE development of a wind farm in Manx waters could bring in £8 million of revenue a year for the island’s exchequer. (iomtoday) [mappress] Source: iomtoday, December 06, 2011
Fishermen’s Energy announced that they have completed another significant step in building what may be the first offshore windfarm in the United States. Early in November, a team of Fishermen’s engineers and specialists from Lockheed Martin installed a sophisticated wind measurement device on the ro
Gamesa announced on Friday that it has ruled out Dundee from its potential UK hub list. They said that Dundee can’t help them in achieving plan to manufacture G11X-5.0 MW and G14X-7.0 MW offshore wind turbines. Leith, proposed by Forth Ports, entered the race for UK hub. The Spanish wind turbine dev
In light of recent events, Japan has been urged to pay more attention to renewable energy sources. Coincidently, in the same month as one… By Carin Hall (energydigital) [mappress] Source: energydigital, December 06, 2011; Image: kyushu-u
