Offshore Renewables

Van Oord has been awarded the contract for the engineering, procurement and construction of the first part of the Belwind offshore wind farm project.

These include offshore wind vessels specifically designed for jacket installation, turbine installation and blade installation. The company is convinced that such thinking 'outside the box' is going to prove vital for a…

Two British engineers have developed a breakthrough design that could within five years begin to generate substantial amounts of cheap electricity from deepwater tidal flows. TidalStream Ltd reported last month that their…

Orecon, the Cornish wave energy device developer, has signed an agreement with Portuguese developer Eneólica. The two companies are establishing a joint venture company to build and deploy Orecon’ s first full…

The C-Energy consortium installed a support structure for the first Dutch tidal energy demonstration project last week. The project is located at the Marine Terminal of the Total Refinery within the municipality…

A new design catamaran for the offshore wind market is due to be launched this month. The Ocean Cat, a 16m aluminium work catamaran designed by Marine Design International Ltd., is under…

Trident Energy is a marine renewables energy company that has developed a unique and low cost system for converting sea wave energy directly into electricity.

A British company is helping to develop the 1GW tidal energy potential of Nova Scotia’ s Bay of Fundy.

Benchmarks for best practice have been drawn up for the fast emerging marine energy industry to stimulate the development of wave and tidal power systems.

UK renewable energy industry leaders welcomed the Government’ s budget presentation last month, which delivered a package of measures to build a low carbon economy and further decarbonise electricity generation.

A commission has rejected the idea of large Cardiff-Weston barrage between England and Wales and instead recommended a smaller barrage which would offer the best mix of power output with reduced environmental…

Fluor Limited, the UK operating arm of Fluor Corporation, formed Seagreen Wind Energy Limited with Airtricity, the renewable energy division of Scottish and Southern Energy last month.

A proposed shortlist of schemes to generate clean, green electricity from the power of the tides in the Severn Estuary has been unveiled by the British Governments Department of Energy and Climate…

Fluor Limited has awarded a contract to Danish offshore construction company A2SEA A/S for the installation of Siemens turbines at the Greater Gabbard Wind Farm project off the UK east coast.

Edinburgh based Pelamis Wave Power (PWP) has won an order from UK renewable energy generator E.on for the next generation Pelamis Wave Energy Converter, known as the P-2.

Bristol UK based tidal energy company Marine Current Turbines Ltd (MCT) confirmed last month that it intends to apply for a lease from the Crown Estate to deploy its tidal technology in…

Some 80% of the greenhouse gas emissions in Europe still come from the energy sector, warns a report from the European Environment Agency (EEA) released recently.

The UK Government gave planning approval earlier this month for theworlds first large scale wave farm off the coast of Cornwall in South WestEngland.