Offshore Renewables

When The Crown Estate in the UK announced in January the successful bidders for nine Zone Development Agreements to develop offshore wind farms under the Round 3 licensing arrangements, it represented a…

GE announced plans last week to invest €110 million to develop offshore wind turbine manufacturing facilities and locate design, application and service engineering resources in the United Kingdom.

The Crown Estate, which manages a £6bn property portfolio across the UK, announced yesterday that it is inviting expressions of interest for a tidal energy project in the Inner Sound, which lies…

Harnessing the full potential of marine energy could provide enough power for up to 15m homes and save up to 70m tons of C02 by 2050 according to the UK Government’s Marine…

Construction work on the Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm site began last week with the arrival of the 164m vessel Nordness.

Siemens Energy has invested in British tidal energy company Marine Current Turbines Ltd, alongside the Carbon Trust, High Tide and other private investors.

A milestone has been reached with the installation of the offshore substation at Vattenfall’s Thanet Offshore Windfarm off the UK’s Kent coast.

The European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) and the Community of European Shipyards Association (CESA) are calling on Europe to support new vessel builds to serve the expanding offshore wind energy market over…

SeaEnergy PLC subsidiary SeaEnergy Renewables was named Company of the Year at the Rosenblatt New Energy Awards 2010, which took place at the Natural History Museum in London last week.

Marine energy will be ready for mass scale deployment and an important new commercial UK industry by 2020 said the Carbon Trust earlier this month.

Scottish Renewables, the voice of the renewables industry in Scotland, has revealed that more than £ 30bn of investment is set to flow from offshore wind power development in Scottish waters.

As political leaders gather in Copenhagen this week for COP 15 United Nations Climate Change, Saab spin-off Minesto has revealed another step towards tidal energy commercialisation by producing electricity with the Deep…

Captain Richard Parkinson, managing director of Mojo Maritime Limited of Cornwall UK has received a top honour at the 2009 South West Green Energy Awards ceremony, which took place in Bath earlier…

A design for a new generation of deep water wind turbine foundations, developed by a British consortium led by independent engineering and environmental consultant Gifford, has been selected in a competition organised…

Canada' s AXYS Technologies Inc has deployed an offshore wind resource assessment buoy, the WindSentinel, off of Race Rocks Island in the coastal waters of British Columbia, Canada.

Queen’ s University Belfast has launched the world’ s largest working hydro-electric wave energy device in conjunction with Aquamarine Power.

Orkney Islands Council ratified plans on Tuesday for the £ 3million redevelopments of the ‘ Golden Wharf’ at Lyness to be included in the Council’ s major works for 2010/2011.

The newbuild 5,500gt jack-up vessel ‘ Seajacks Leviathan’ arrived in Harwich UK at the end of September to begin work installing wind turbines at the Greater Gabbard Wind Farm. Situated some 25km…

Swedish company Vattenfall is making steady progress with construction of the Thanet Offshore Wind Farm, with over half the foundation and transition pieces now installed and plans in place for the cable…

Ballast Nedam' s heavy lift vessel Svanen left the port of Rotterdam early this month after being commissioned by Van Oord Dredging and Marine Contractors to drive 56 steel piles for the…