GL Garrad Hassan and GL Academy are merging their expertise to offer joint training seminars. The cooperation combines GL Garrad Hassan’s knowledge as a technical authority on wind, wave, tidal and solar power, and its eight years of experience in providing international training, with GL Academy’s
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) Director Michael R. Bromwich delivered opening remarks at the bureau’s Atlantic Wind Energy Workshop in Herndon, Va. The bureau hosted the three-day workshop as part of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Department of the
IDEOL announces it has closed the financing of its innovative solutions development, and strengthened its advisory board with recognized experts from the offshore industry. Offshore wind is a buoyant sector: France is about to launch a first bidding for a 3 GW round, the United-Kingdom forecasts the
More than 100 students from across Kent are competing to design a wind farm and win a trip to Denmark. Matthew Valentine (engineeringapprentice) [mappress] Source: Eengineering Apprentice, July 11, 2011;
Vattenfall has been participating in a EU project on challenges on up scaling wind power technology. The project came to an end in March 2011, which resulted in reliability modelling and design criteria of future wind turbines / wind farms and improvements on the grid integration issues. The UPWIND
Round table ‘Climate change and renewable energy sources in Black Sea region’ will be held in Center for Strategic Studies on 8 July… (news.az) [mappress] Source: news.az, July 07, 2011;
A second major business conference focusing on the Humber’s renewable energy industry is being staged to meet growing demand for information on the rapidly-expanding market. Organisers say the latest event will see companies being urged to act now, to seize the opportunities available as the region
National Wind Farm Training Centre is announcing at Offshore Wind 2011 its partnership with two colleges on the UK’s east and west coasts; Lowestoft and Barrow-in-Furness. In conjunction with Lowestoft College and Furness College, NWFTC will provide specialist, customisable courses to meet the deman
The renewable energy sector could provide the long-term unemployed in Fife with jobs for life… (stv) [mappress] Source: stv, June 23, 2011;
Marine engineering company SeaRoc, part of the Natural Power group, will be hosting a two hour webinar which will provide an interactive demonstration of SeaPlanner, the innovative suite of modular, web-based management tools. Presented by Dominic Stratton, SeaPlanner GIS Manager at SeaRoc, the webi
It is expected that over 5,000 jobs could be created by the development of the marine renewable industry in the south west of the country… (ibtimes) [mappress] Source: ibtimes, June 20, 2011;
Global offshore health & safety training specialists Falck Nutec have announced a number of key additions to their sales team. (oilvoice) [mappress] Source: oilvoice, May 26, 2011
The size of the renewable energy market is set to overtake the oil and gas industry over the next decade, according to industry… (thecareerengineer) [mappress] Source: thecareerengineer, May 24, 2011;
The Province of Nova Scotia is hosting a Tidal Symposium July 7 and 8, 2011. The symposium aims to help advance the tidal energy… (fundyforce) [mappress] Source: fundyforce, May 23, 2011;
