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• Leviathan to work on world's largest wind farm

  The newbuild 5,500gt jack-up vessel ‘ Seajacks Leviathan’ arrived in Harwich UK at the end of September to begin work installing wind turbines at the Greater Gabbard Wind Farm. Situated some 25km off the Suffolk/Essex coast, it will be the world’ s largest offshore wind farm to date. 03 Oct 2009

• Heavy lifter 'Svanen' to drive piles for wind turbines

  Ballast Nedam' s heavy lift vessel Svanen left the port of Rotterdam early this month after being commissioned by Van Oord Dredging and Marine Contractors to drive 56 steel piles for the foundations of the Belwind offshore wind farm off the coast of Zeebrugge (Belgium). This is the first phase of the Belwind project, which will eventually encompass a total of 110 wind turbines. 09 Sep 2009

• Van Oord to build wind farm off Belgium

  Van Oord has been awarded the contract for the engineering, procurement and construction of the first part of the Belwind offshore wind farm project. 09 Sep 2009

• Thanet on schedule

  Swedish company Vattenfall is making steady progress with construction of the Thanet Offshore Wind Farm, with over half the foundation and transition pieces now installed and plans in place for the cable laying, turbine installation and longer term maintenance phases of the project. When completed, it will be the world’ s largest offshore wind farm. 09 Sep 2009

• Wind farm makes Wells a commercial port

  Last June the Harbour Commissioners of Wells-next-the-Sea in Norfolk UK signed an agreement with the developers of the Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm, Scira Offshore Energy Ltd., securing a 50 year contract which will alter its primary function from fishing and leisure to commercial port. 07 Sep 2009

• Design innovation with wind in its sails

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• TidalStream's turbine validated in deep water tests

  Two British engineers have developed a breakthrough design that could within five years begin to generate substantial amounts of cheap electricity from deepwater tidal flows. TidalStream Ltd reported last month that their unique turbine platform design, code named Triton, has successfully undergone validation testing at the deep-water test basin at Ifremer in Brittany, France. 01 Jun 2009

• Strong wind brings South Boats fleet to Seawork

  South Boats Special Projects Ltd will be taking up their usual berths at this year’ s Seawork 2009 exhibition at the bottom of the main gangway. What is different his year is that the company has arguably grown into the UK’ s busiest and perhaps largest boat building company. 01 Jun 2009

• A simpler form of wave power

  Trident Energy is a marine renewables energy company that has developed a unique and low cost system for converting sea wave energy directly into electricity. 01 Jun 2009

• Dutch tide turns in the Westerschelde

  The C-Energy consortium installed a support structure for the first Dutch tidal energy demonstration project last week. The project is located at the Marine Terminal of the Total Refinery within the municipality of Borsele in the Westerschelde. Over the next two months all electronics and the rotor will be installed. 01 Jun 2009

• First Ocean Cat launched this month.

  A new design catamaran for the offshore wind market is due to be launched this month. The Ocean Cat, a 16m aluminium work catamaran designed by Marine Design International Ltd., is under construction at Mooney Boats in Killybegs for Sinbad Marine Services, and is part of the same design family as the established Coastal Cat. 01 Jun 2009

• Another British wave device welcomed in Portugal

  Orecon, the Cornish wave energy device developer, has signed an agreement with Portuguese developer Eneólica. The two companies are establishing a joint venture company to build and deploy Orecon’ s first full scale 1.5MW multi-resonant chamber (MRC) wave energy buoy. 01 Jun 2009

• DONG on song as budget ROCS

  DONG Energy has decided to build the offshore wind farm Walney II in the Irish Sea. The move is a result of the British government' s increase in funding towards sustainable energy, which the British Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling announced in his budget presentation last month. 07 May 2009

• UK tidal turbine targets Bay of Fundy

  A British company is helping to develop the 1GW tidal energy potential of Nova Scotia’ s Bay of Fundy. 01 May 2009

• Guidelines agreed for marine energy development

  Benchmarks for best practice have been drawn up for the fast emerging marine energy industry to stimulate the development of wave and tidal power systems. 01 May 2009