Offshore Renewables

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…

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

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.

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…

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

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…

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…