Offshore Renewables

Danish offshore wind installation and service solutions provider A2SEA recently announced a repeat order for a second newbuilding turbine installation vessel from COSCO Shipyard Group in China.

Norfolk UK based Tidal Transit brings its second wind farm service vessel Eden Rose ’to Seawork 2012, where it will host offshore wind industry visitors and take them for runs on Southampton…

Seawork has been chosen as the venue for Blyth Workcats to launch a boat that promotes it into a new league of boatbuilding.

Alex Salmond MSP, the First Minister of Scotland has joined the line-up for the opening plenary conference session at All-Energy 2012.

Anyone who assumes The Crown Estate’s (TCE) role in UK offshore wind is simply allocating areas of seabed to developers and waiting for the rent to roll in, is clearly not aware…

Once the excitement of announcing a major investment in the form of an offshore windfarm has died down, the question that has to be asked is, “Will this create jobs in the…

Keen observers of offshore activity at the Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm off North Norfolk UK will notice the arrival of two specialist vessels from Van Oord the over the coming weeks.

Global Marine Energy Ltd has invested in the refit and development of Cable Enterprise, a barge built specifically for the installation of power cables for offshore wind farms.

The small Channel Island of Alderney has been instrumental in organising an important meeting between members of the British and French governments to discuss the creation of a cable link between the…

Edinburgh based generator company NGenTec has secured a second grant from the UK Government’s Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC).

The UK Department of Energy and Climate Change and energy regulator Ofgem have published a report of interest for the offshore wind energy sector.

London Array Ltd recently hosted the opening ceremony for their eco-friendly operations and maintenance base at Ramsgate UK, to become the long term hub for their offshore windfarm in the outer Thames…

In a new advance for marine renewable energy, the Neptune Proteus tidal stream energy device will supply electricity from this month to The Deep, a visitor attraction and research centre in Hull…

Harnessing the reliable and predictable energy of tidal streams, Bristol UK based Rolls-Royce subsidiary Tidal Generation Limited has surpassed the 200 megawatt hours (MWh) mark of electrical power generated and fed into…

The French Government announced its decision last week to award the Iberdrola-Eole-RES consortium exclusive rights to develop a 500 MW offshore wind project in the area of Saint-Brieuc, off the coast of…