Offshore Renewables

In the first week of October, the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult and the University of Hull announced that they had teamed up to launch a pioneering £2 million offshore wind operations and…

The worlds first floating wind farm, Statoils Hywind project, has been officially opened by Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.

As reported in ‘MJ’ and elsewhere, last months high-profile Contracts for Difference (CFD) auction presented a very positive cost assessment of offshore wind and demonstrated that the sector can now produce power…

The EU’s FORESEA (Funding Ocean Energy through Strategic European Action) programme recently launched its 4th call for proposals at the Offshore Energy 2017 conference.

UK independent engineering and environmental hydraulics organisation HR Wallingford has completed a ten week project working with Oxford University’s Department of Engineering Science and energy company E.ON, examining different forms of scour…

An Irish tidal energy company developing a unique technology for ‘off grid’ locations around the world is to develop its first commercial device after the successful completion of its prototype testing programme.

Buoys will be used in a project to improve the design and effectiveness of tidal energy capture devices.

In mid-September, the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) announced that it had successfully completed its project to produce hydrogen gas using electricity generated from tidal energy in Orkney - the first initiative…

According to drone operator Texo Drone Services, across the offshore renewables industry, UAV technology is now an established and essential part of maintenance inspections and surveys.