Offshore Renewables

An electronics developer is working on a tool to reduce operation and maintenance costs and risks at offshore windfarms.

Laminaria, a Belgian company in the field of wave energy generation, has raised €2M from new investors, QBIC II and PMV, and existing investor CEIP.

The work to install 67 Siemens 6MW turbines at the Dudgeon offshore windfarm has been completed in a project which one operator calls its toughest to date.

Cost reductions in offshore wind are fuelling growth in industry contracts with three UK offshore wind projects making successful bids.

Global Maritime has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with a number of leading Taiwanese organisations to develop closer cooperation on offshore wind technologies including marine warranty surveys, inspections and testing services.

CWind has been awarded a contract by DONG Energy, to install new and retrofit existing gates on the transition pieces at the Gode Wind and Borkum Riffgrund offshore wind farms, located in…

The Swedish wind energy company Vattenfall has announced plans to jointly fund pioneering research to explore how bottlenose dolphins, sea trout, salmon, sea birds and humans are affected by offshore wind developments.

Thirty years ago, the European wind energy sector was nothing more than a nice idea - however, since then it has mushroomed into an international business employing many thousands of people and…

Paris-headquartered Bourbon has completed the mooring installation of the first floating wind turbine in France, at the SEM-REV experimental test site off Le Croisic.