Offshore Renewables

Two major players in the world of offshore wind and energy shipping have joined forces to develop a wind turbine foundation installation vessel.

Wales’ first full scale tidal stream energy generator will be deployed in 2012, having secured £6.4m support from the European Regional Development Fund through the Welsh Government.

Hochtief Construction has a new partner for the construction and operation of DP jack-up vessels for offshore wind farm installations.

The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) has announced that it will invest £25m into an open access, wind turbine drive train test rig seen as crucial for the continued success and further expansion…

When it comes to UK Round 3 wind farms, it may be better to resolve some of the current issues and benefit from economies of scale, rather than relying on scaling up…

An announcement by UK Climate Change Minister Greg Barker that the Government will provide up to £20m to fund new marine power technology has received a lukewarm response from the nation’s largest…

The Basque seaport of Mutriku made energy generation history last week when utility company Ente Vasco de la Energía (EVE) officially started the Mutriku wave power plant, the first in commercial operation.

The British Government published its long awaited Electricity Market Reform White Paper on Tuesday, a document pledging to increase the target for offshore wind power from 13GW to 18GW by 2020.

The UK’s National Wind Farm Training Centre (NWFTC) announced its partnership With two colleges on the UK’s east and west coasts, Lowestoft and Barrow-in-Furness, at Offshore Wind 2011.

Breakwater pontoon specialist Marinetek UK Ltd is celebrating the completion of a £1m project providing a new floating breakwater and sheltered berthing facilities for wind farm offshore support vessels in Ramsgate Royal…

An industry wide survey into the offshore wind industry describes the coming few years as a ‘make or break’ time.

Voith Turbo Marine Engineering has developed the Voith Offshore Shuttle forwind farms with a special feature, the Momac Offshore Transport System installed at the bow.

SeaEnergy, faced with the steep bills for wind farm projects, is selling its renewables construction stake and is moving its focus to the maintenance side of the business.

The first company to establish a permanent shore-based facility at Orkneys new marine renewables base has secured its first client, the European Marine Energy Centre.

A new offshore wind farm support operation based in Norfolk UK has an interesting history, with its origins in fishing and restaurants.

In a decision that will be of relevance to the marine renewable industry, the UK government has broadly accepted the recommendations of the independent Committee on Climate Change (CCC) for the fourth…

In recent years there have been two significant trends in the wind industry - developers are searching for higher quality wind resources and turbines are getting larger and larger.

The crane vessel Oleg Strashnov has arrived back at the Sheringham Shoal offshore wind farm site from Holland after picking up a further supply of monopoles to resume foundation installations.

An application from the UKs Marine Current Turbines to secure money from the European Union’s New Entrant Reserve (NER) scheme has been approved by the UK’s Department of Energy & Climate Change.

Following Siemens’ decision to manufacture offshore wind turbines at the UK port of Hull, further evidence of the industry’s desire to establish manufacturing facilities in the UK has arrived.