Environment

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

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

CorPower Ocean has successfully installed its first commercial-scale wave energy converter in northern Portugal.

6th September 2023

CorPower installs first commercial-scale WEC

6th September 2023

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Offshore wind capacity around the world is exploding in size as different territories set stringent renewable energy goals. 

5th September 2023

Decarbonisation: How far have we got?

5th September 2023

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Dutch firm FibreMax has signed an MoU with Entrion, a Texas-based manufacturer of FRP monopile designs, to increase the depths in which offshore monopiles can be installed. 

4th September 2023

MoU pledges to deepen waters for offshore wind

4th September 2023

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Norway’s Crown Prince Haakon has officially opened the world’s largest floating offshore wind farm in the North Sea to supply a third of the electricity needs of two oil and gas fields.

29th August 2023

Floating wind farm opens to power oil and gas

29th August 2023

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

The Biden administration has approved a new 704 MW offshore wind project off Rhode Island.

25th August 2023

Boost for US offshore wind as RI farm gets green light

25th August 2023

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

A project trumpeted as being the UK’s flagship green hydrogen programme that would make the gas using electricity generated by offshore wind has been abandoned.

25th August 2023

Flagship green H2 project hits the wall

25th August 2023

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Scientists supported by the UK’s Plymouth Marine University will embark on a 10-day expedition in the North Pole to look at the marine environment in one of the world’s bleakest regions.

24th August 2023

Wooden schooner deployed for Arctic research

24th August 2023

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Renewable energy firm OX2 has been given a permit to develop a 1.5GW offshore wind farm off the south coast of Sweden.

23rd August 2023

1.5GW offshore wind farm wins first permit for Sweden

23rd August 2023

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

Portsmouth International Port now operates on 35% of solar and battery power, the city council claims.

22nd August 2023

Solar panels and batteries switch on at Portsmouth

22nd August 2023

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Svitzer says it has progressed to the second phase of its work in designing a methanol hybrid fuel cell (MHFC) tug with naval architect Robert Allan.

17th August 2023

Svitzer moves into next methanol fuel cell phase

17th August 2023

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

America’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has announced new draft Wind Energy Areas (WEAs) off the coast of Oregon opening up the US west coast to offshore wind.

16th August 2023

US selects Oregon as next offshore wind area

16th August 2023

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Disaster has been averted with the removal of more than a million barrels of oil from the decaying tanker FSO Safer, off the coast of Yemen.

15th August 2023

1 million barrels of oil removed from FSO Safer

15th August 2023

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Energy company RWE has won the right to develop a second Nordseecluster in the German North Sea.

14th August 2023

More wind farms awarded in German North Sea

14th August 2023

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Hydrosphere managing director John Caskey examines why such a promising technology as tidal power is still not popular.

11th August 2023

OPINION: It’s time to turn the tide on tidal energy

11th August 2023

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

A floating offshore wind project has reached a significant milestone with the installation of a 2MW floating wind platform demonstrator in open waters.

11th August 2023

Floating wind demo successfully installed

11th August 2023

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Rovco has been contracted by Flotation Energy to carry out a geo-environmental survey at its planned Cenos floating offshore windfarm, 200 kilometres off the north-east coast of Scotland.

9th August 2023

Rovco survey expertise for Scottish floating offshore windfarm

9th August 2023