Offshore Renewables

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.

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.

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…

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.

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…

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

REDS Ltd (Reach Engineering & Diving Services Ltd) have thissummer taken their first steps into the offshore renewable energy sector. In lateJune the Midlands UK based company were contracted to carry out…

The 25 turbine Burbo Bank Offshore Windfarm was completedthis summer on behalf of the Danish Company Dong Energy, culminating a hecticbut successful installation period.

A landmark agreement has been reached between the UK Government and industry which aims to remove aviation and radar barriers to the major expansion of wind energy that has been outlined by…

The challenge of generating increasing amounts of clean and sustainable energy is leading energy producers to investigate building bigger offshore wind farms in deeper waters. A major technical challenge is installing the…

French power group EDF is planning build three to six turbines along the northern coast of Brittany to produce electricity from the energy in tidal currents.

The Peninsula Research Institute for Marine Renewable Energy (PRIMaRE) has ordered eight Fugro Oceanor Seawatch Mini II buoys to form the core of an instrumentation network at the Wave Hub site off…