Offshore Renewables

A new device aims to reduce the major challenge inherent in offshore wind resource assessment, the gathering and validating of data.

A European company is about to help Korea utilise the enormous potential of clean, CO2-free energy from the oceans.

Centrica, the energy group whose businesses include British Gas, has signed a long term lease that will enable it to build an operation and maintenance base at Grimsby docks to serve its…

The Maritime Research Institute Netherlands (MARIN) is in the closing stages of testing three different floating wind turbine concepts for the DeepCwind Consortium (USA), led by the University of Maine.

Aberdeen UK based SeaHold GeoShips Limited (GeoShips) has chartered its first new multi-purpose offshore vessel to support the growing offshore renewable energy market and the subsea sector.

With details now emerging of around 20 firm orders and options for wind turbine installation vessels (WTIVs) worldwide, it is possible to gain a picture of how those involved are responding to…

Plans for developing Scotland’s offshore wind potential have been unveiled with publication of Blue Seas – Green Energy, the Sectoral Marine Plan for Offshore Wind Energy in Scottish Territorial Waters.

Marine power solutions provider Wärtsilä and oil and gas services company Aker Solutions will be combining their expertise to develop a new and environmentally sound concept for offshore wind farm installation vessels.

Businesses will have the chance to learn more about the marine energy opportunities for the Orkney and Pentland Firth waters at an event in Caithness on Tuesday 5 April.

The Conservative led UK Coalition Government’s second budget delivered a mix of hope and disappointment last month to those with an interest in marine energy.

Chesterfield UK based Cathelco Ltd has won an order to supply seawater pipework anti-fouling equipment for Pelamis, the ‘sea snake’ structure which produces electricity from the action of the waves.

Falmouth Harbour Commissioners (FHC) in the UK has submitted a licence application for an energy test site in Falmouth Bay, Cornwall.

The SeaGen tidal energy turbine, designed by Britain’s Marine Current Turbines Ltd, has achieved and passed the UK Government’s operating performance criteria for the UK’s emerging tidal and wave energy technologies.

The Holyhead Boatyard Group has set a course for new offshore business opportunities after securing £2.7m investment in the largest debt investment to date from Finance Wales.

ABP Marine Environmental Research Ltd (ABPmer) has been commissioned to prepare the marine elements of an environmental statement in support of the proposed Green Port Hull development at Alexandra Dock, Port of…

Swedish energy company Vattenfall has revealed details of its plans to extend the Kentish Flats offshore wind farm as it consults the local community and prepares the Statement of Community Consultation document.

Classification society Det Norske Veritas (DNV) has recently published a Joint Industry Project (JIP) report into offshore wind turbine foundation structures.

The A&P Group, which has seven drydocks in three UK locations, has won a multi-million pound contract for the renewable industry with work being carried out at their shipyard in Falmouth.

Chain Reaction, the cluster of organisations representing Teesside’s growing renewable energy sector and its associated supply chain, held a strategy meeting in Middlesbrough recently.