The Crown Estate, Marine Scotland and Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) have commissioned the Carbon Trust’s Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA) to form the Offshore Renewables Joint Industry Programme (ORJIP). The programme has been created to reduce the consenting risks for large-scale of
Team Humber Marine Alliance’s (THMA) member, RSS Marine, undertook environmental monitoring work on Humber Gateway offshore wind farm. The RSS Marine team, based at Hunmanby, North Yorkshire, has managed the sampling of herring larvae as part of the site’s marine licence. Simon Prince, general manag
As Japan’s shift to renewable energy gears up after the Fukushima disaster, the country is progressively pushing for offshore wind power, having in mind that its onshore wind capacities are rather limited. The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) announced on Friday that it will establish
The effort to drive down costs of offshore renewables has created another strong partnership with an aim to achieve acceptable prices of offshore renewable energy, especially offshore wind. The Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult and The Crown Estate yesterday announced that they signed a three
A group of scientists from the United Kingdom and the United States have developed a method to assess the potential impacts of offshore wind farm construction on marine mammal populations, particularly the noise made while driving piles into the seabed to install wind turbine foundations. “Pile-driv
The OWDIn (Offshore Wind Drivetrain Innovation) project was announced today by the Rt Hon Edward Davey MP, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate, speaking at the annual RenewableUK conference in Birmingham. The Ricardo-led project takes a broad drivetrain approach to improving reliability throug
Research into the best ways to arrange wind turbines has produced staggering results — quite literally. The University of Delaware’s Cristina Archer and her Atmosphere and Energy Research Group found that staggering and spacing out turbines in an offshore wind farm can improve performance by as much
Offshore wind power installations are on track to hit a seventh consecutive annual record in 2013. Written by J. Matthew Roney, Earth Policy Institute Developers added 1,080 megawatts of generating capacity in the first half of the year, expanding the world total by 20 percent in just six months. Fi
Offshore wind plans for Estonia were discussed at the country’s first offshore wind conference held on the 29th and 30th of October, 2013 in Hiiumaa. Wind energy producers are looking at offshore wind possibilities in the Baltic Sea off Hiiumaa and Pärnumaa, according to Estonian Public Broadcasting
Lockheed Martin and Reignwood Group have signed a contract to start design of a 10-megawatt Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) power plant, which, when complete, will be the largest OTEC project to date. Lockheed Martin is the industry leader in the development of OTEC technology, holding 19 rel
Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. (OPT) today announced that the Company has received a $2.6 million contract from Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. (MES) to provide the final design and supply of key components of a PowerBuoy system intended for deployment off the coast of Japan to demonstra
The Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) has presented a study, according to which wind farms can benefit biodiversity. The data have been collected from the demonstration offshore wind farm Alpha Ventus. The foundations of the wind turbines have become “artificial reefs” at which shells,
A floating wind turbine of 2MW capacity started generating power near Nagasaki prefecture on Monday (October 28), Bloomberg informs. This is a demonstration project, which is carried out by a group led by Toda Corporation for the Japanese Ministry of the Environment. Last year, the group installed a
Renewable energy developer Current2Current Ltd has confirmed that their prototype recently started with producing electricity in the North Sea enabling the company to move ever closer to securing its future as a renewable energy production company. Generating electricity from ocean currents and tide
