Saturday 10 January 09 - 03:20
 

Marine Renewables

  • Progress on objections to offshore wind

    A landmark agreement has been reached between the UK Government and industry which aims to remove aviation and radar barriers to the major expansion of wind energy that has been outlined by Business Secretary John Hutton. 

  • Deeper water wind farms under development

    The challenge of generating increasing amounts of clean and sustainable energy is leading energy producers to investigate building bigger offshore wind farms in deeper waters. A major technical challenge is installing the foundations for such structures. 

  • The tide turns for nuclear giant

    French power group EDF is planning build three to six turbines along the northern coast of Brittany to produce electricity from the energy in tidal currents. 

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