Offshore Renewables

The Renewable Energy Zone (REZ) created around the coast of Scotland mark out the area of the sea that can be used for new energy structures.

Renewable energy experts are working together to move forward a programme of competence management in the offshore wind and marine energy sector.

Netherlands based Holland Shipyards has been entrusted with the conversion of two passenger vessels into luxury offshore accommodation vessels for Chevalier Floatels with the offshore wind farm market in mind.

A Tyneside UK shipyard is expanding to accommodate a wind turbine foundation production line facility.

A Norwegian technology company has proposed a wind turbine transportation vessel design, specifically for completely assembled floating turbines which addresses the draught restrictions of transporting floating turbines vertically.

The Crown Estate (TCE) has published an introduction to the UK’s offshore wind programme.

Energy ventures company SeaEnergy PLC has won Scottish Enterprise funding support of over £88,000 for development of their offshore wind farm support business.

Finland’s Mobimar Ltd will delivers its first trimaran crew transfer vessel to Meriaura Ltd in March of next year.

Scottish boatbuilder Buckie Shipyard has entered an agreement with Veecraft Marine of Capetown SA to be the UK builder of the Teknicraft design of Wind Farm Service Vessels.

Dutch companies Damen Shipyards and SeaZip Offshore Service signed a contract at the EWEA exhibition and conference in Amsterdam on this month for two Fast Crew Suppliers of the 2610 type.

Fendercare Marine, a member of James Fisher & Sons plc, has announced plans to open a second offshore marine energy O&M facility in Great Yarmouth UK early next year.

Engineering giant Alstom has revealed further details of its ambitions for offshore wind turbine manufacturing in France.

It will soon be two years since the announcement of the successful bidders for the UK’s Round 3 offshore wind farm zones.

MPI Offshore Limited (MPI) has taken delivery of the MPI Discovery, the second of the organisation’s two wind turbine installation vessels (WTIVs) to be built at the Cosco Qidong Shipyard in China.

Siemens has increased its share in British tidal energy company Marine Current Turbines Ltd to 45%.

As Europe faces the danger of recession, the offshore wind industry is planning massive growth.

An energy company developing a North Sea wind farm has signalled its commitment to local contractors by becoming the latest member of a networking organisation.

Plans by Marine Current Turbines and its project partner RWE npower renewables to install and operate Wales’s first ever tidal energy farm have moved a step closer.

The Forewind consortium will employ an innovative new foundation design concept when it installs two meteorological masts on the Dogger Bank offshore wind farm zone.