With just under EUR 700,000, Lower Saxony is supporting a pilot project for the settlement of the European lobsters at the offshore wind farm “Riffgat”. Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, have started to rear 3,000 lobsters, which they will
Wind energy and tourism can benefit each other, says the German Offshore Wind Energy Foundation (Stiftung OFFSHORE-WINDENERGIE), which has published a study on this matter. Under the title “The Impact of Offshore Wind Energy on Tourism – Good Practices and Perspectives for the South Baltic Region”,
TenneT Offshore GmbH is responsible for the connection of the electrical substation of the offshore wind farms in the HelWin2 cluster. In order to connect the wind farms with the onshore AC grid TenneT requires seabed survey services for the potential clearance of unexploded ordnance. The wind farm
The two next-generation Siemens 6MW offshore wind turbines at the Gunfleet Sands demonstration project in the UK have produced the first power. DONG Energy will use Siemens 6MW wind turbines commercially for the first time at Westermost Rough off the Yorkshire coast in the United Kingdom and has rec
On Tuesday, April 9, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Water Power Program notified potential future applicants of an upcoming Funding Opportunity Announcement tentatively titled, “Marine and Hydrokinetic (MHK) System Performance Advancement (SPA).” The DOE is working to advance the technology per
At Sunday’s official opening of Bauma in Munich, BAUER Spezialtiefbau GmbH was presented with the Bauma Innovation Prize in the Construction Process category. Engineer Paul Scheller accepted the award on behalf of the successful team. The Bauma Innovation Prize is awarded at the start of the trienni
Co-operation with China through the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Renewable Energy Development (RED) programme has reached another milestone. Twelve contracts for research and development projects have been signed between Danish and Chinese businesses and research institutes. The 12 projects a
A major stakeholder in Blue Power Energy Conor Haughey has appointed Beary Capital Partners to advise him on a €1.5m fundraising for wave energy development, Independent.ie informs. Blue Power Energy, in which Haughey holds 65 per cent stake, is seeking the investment to commercialize its newly deve
An onshore geotechnical survey near the proposed landfall location for the Dogger Bank Teesside export cables, between Redcar and Marske-by-the-Sea, will be carried out next week (starting Tuesday, April 16). Specialist contractor VolkerInfra will drill a number of boreholes in total as part of the
President Obama’s fiscal year 2014 budget request, announced yesterday, includes $169.4 million to fund the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), which is charged with managing the Nation’s offshore energy and mineral resources in a way that promotes efficient and environmentally responsible ene
The spring is bringing new steps forward for Maine’s offshore wind development, as two test projects progress toward their next phase. The University of Maine is leading a team that will launch a USD 1 million prototype of its planned Aqua Ventus floating turbine off Castine in May. The prototype, w
AXYS Technologies Inc. (AXYS) announces a contract award from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution to provide up to 24 TRIAXYS™ Next Wave Directional Wave Sensors as a component of the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI). The OOI, a project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and ma
ResHydro, a U.S.-based tidal power company, has decided to invest in Scotland by establishing an operations base there, the Scotsman informs. The company will work together with the University of Strathclyde on developing its hydrokinetic energy generation device. Scottish Enterprise will support Re
On April 2, 2013 Climate Minister Martin Lidegaard visited Floating Power Plant at its maintenance facilities in Nakskov Harbor. Floating Power Plant A/S is a clean-tech company that develops, designs and provides a unique patented technology to harvest the limitless energy of the ocean. The company
