Offshore Renewables

In a decision that will be of relevance to the marine renewable industry, the UK government has broadly accepted the recommendations of the independent Committee on Climate Change (CCC) for the fourth…

In recent years there have been two significant trends in the wind industry - developers are searching for higher quality wind resources and turbines are getting larger and larger.

The crane vessel Oleg Strashnov has arrived back at the Sheringham Shoal offshore wind farm site from Holland after picking up a further supply of monopoles to resume foundation installations.

An application from the UKs Marine Current Turbines to secure money from the European Union’s New Entrant Reserve (NER) scheme has been approved by the UK’s Department of Energy & Climate Change.

Following Siemens’ decision to manufacture offshore wind turbines at the UK port of Hull, further evidence of the industry’s desire to establish manufacturing facilities in the UK has arrived.

A new device aims to reduce the major challenge inherent in offshore wind resource assessment, the gathering and validating of data.

A European company is about to help Korea utilise the enormous potential of clean, CO2-free energy from the oceans.

Centrica, the energy group whose businesses include British Gas, has signed a long term lease that will enable it to build an operation and maintenance base at Grimsby docks to serve its…

The Maritime Research Institute Netherlands (MARIN) is in the closing stages of testing three different floating wind turbine concepts for the DeepCwind Consortium (USA), led by the University of Maine.