Offshore Renewables

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…

A partnership between Cornwall based wave energy developer Orecon; Peter Brotherhood Ltd, a leader in the design and manufacture of turbines; Converteam, the UK’ s largest supplier of electrical systems to the…

Rugby UK based Reach Engineering & Diving Services (REDS) has started off the New Year as they finished 2007, winning a contract for a diving project on N-Power' s Rhyl Flats Wind…

Pioneering renewable energy developer Marine Current Turbines successfully completed the first installation phase of the 1.2MW SeaGen Tidal System into the fast flowing waters of Strangford Narrows of Northern Ireland last month.…

Further evidence that UK renewable energy developers are far ahead of their government comes with news that tidal power company Lunar Energy has signed an agreement with Korean Midland Power Co which…

Dutch dredging and marine contractor Van Oord has been awarded a contract to lay a 150kV cable between Ellewoutsdijk and Terneuzen in its home country.

The UK Government’ s Energy Minister Malcolm Wicks has given consent for a major 450MW offshore wind farm project in the Irish Sea 14km from Walney Island, off the coast of Cumbria.

Scottish wave energy company, AWS Ocean Energy, has secured new investments from Shell Technology Ventures Fund 1 B.V. (STV Fund), an affiliate of Royal Dutch Shell plc, and the investment fund The…

The Armourcotedivision of Surface Technology plc and specialist hydraulics componentsmanufacturer Sun Hydraulics both based in Coventry UK,have worked closely together on the development of a new multi-layeranti-corrosion and anti-wear surface coating, TriCem…

Scotlands AWS Ocean Energy is to receive further supportfrom the Carbon Trust in the development of its Archimedes Wave Swing, the worldsfirst submerged wave energy system. The support is part of the…

Thanet Offshore Wind Limited (TOW) has signed a reservation agreement with Denmark headquartered A2SEA A/S for the long term use of the vessel the Sea Jack for the main construction periods for…

The development of the UKspioneering offshore wind energy sector continues apace as details wereannounced last month of the licensing regime for would be electricitytransmission owners.

One of the UKs biggest studies into theenvironmental effects of marine renewable energy has been completed.

The worlds largest wavefarm planned off the coast of Cornwallin South West England has been approved for £ 21.5 million of funding.