Environment

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ENVIRONMENT

A project is looking to overcome the effects of strong winds and extreme wave loads on floating turbines.

16th October 2023

Project seeks answers to harsh seas in floating wind

16th October 2023

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

What will be the world’s largest wind farm has started to produce electricity.

13th October 2023

First turbine switches on at world’s largest offshore wind farm

13th October 2023

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

New figures reveal the workforce challenge facing the global wind industry with nearly 600,000 technicians needed to service the sector during the next five years.

11th October 2023

Huge global demand revealed for wind technicians

11th October 2023

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

RWE, Wales’ largest renewable energy generator, is funding a study to investigate the quayside offload and launch of two types of floating offshore wind platforms.

9th October 2023

Innovative study to test floating offshore wind platform potential

9th October 2023

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Support in the American state of New Jersey for building offshore wind turbines off the coast has plummeted over the past four years, according to a new poll.

9th October 2023

Poll shows popularity slumping for US offshore windfarms

9th October 2023

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Marine civils firm Land & Water has teamed up with marine conservation organization Project Seagrass to design and build an automated seagrass planter (ASP).

9th October 2023

​Automated machine developed for seagrass planting

9th October 2023

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

The marine and offshore technical advisory component of Bureau Veritas Group (BV Solutions M&O) has expanded an existing agreement with the Spanish noise and vibrations solutions firm TSI (Técnicas Y Servicios De…

9th October 2023

Bureau Veritas expands subsea noise-cutting agreement

9th October 2023

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Wind turbine manufacturer Vestas has secured a 960MW order for 64 turbines in the German North Sea.

29th September 2023

Vestas wins order for 64 offshore wind turbines

29th September 2023

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

An offshore floating wind farm will be assembled using a transportable dry dock technology by UK-based Tugdock.

29th September 2023

Mobile drydock assists in floating wind project

29th September 2023

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Japanese shipping giant Mitsui OSK Ltd (MOL) has become a minority shareholder in the Netherlands-based floating wind start-up TouchWind.

27th September 2023

VIDEO: Mitsui OSK puts money into floating wind

27th September 2023

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

The decaying oil tanker FSO Safer could have been a humanitarian and environmental disaster. For once, though, the ultimate outcome was one of success rather than failure. Peter Barker reports on how a tragedy…

26th September 2023

Salvage success of a ‘ticking time bomb’

26th September 2023

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Despite recent apparent misgivings within the US offshore wind industry – a recent auction received just one bid – there are many signs that the sector is still emerging and it is…

26th September 2023

SMST to deliver first 3D crane to US SOV

26th September 2023

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Stevie Knight has a further look at the potential for methanol in the workboat sector.

25th September 2023

Methanol Part II: Is the workboat sector ready?

25th September 2023

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

It’s no secret that the European wind energy supply chain is struggling and now the European Commission has stepped in to help.

20th September 2023

Europe announces help for the struggling wind power sector

20th September 2023

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

A new procurement bill in California has put the state on a path to realise its 25GW offshore wind goal, says America’s Business Network for Offshore Wind.

18th September 2023

US legislation key to offshore wind investments

18th September 2023

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Newport Shipping has used London Shipping Week to launch a company that will design and build eight crew transfer vessels (CTVs) for the offshore wind market.

12th September 2023

Newport Shipping launches CTV design & build firm

12th September 2023

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Eleven projects have won a share of €35 million to develop projects in tidal stream energy, the UK government has revealed.

11th September 2023

€35m won in bids for UK tidal stream sector

11th September 2023

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Industry bodies have voiced concern and disappointment over a total lack of bids from offshore wind developers in the latest UK renewable energy auction.

8th September 2023

Zero bids made for UK offshore wind projects

8th September 2023

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

The world’s largest network of ocean energy professionals, comprising more than 120 organisations including utilities, industry and research institutes, has welcomed the UK back into its flagship programme.

7th September 2023

EU brings UK into ocean energy programme

7th September 2023

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Three EU-funded R&D projects have been selected to complete their designs and fabricate prototypes for a one-year demonstration aiming to assess the feasibility of different ideas to generate electricity from wave power.

7th September 2023

3 wave projects win share of €13.4m budget

7th September 2023