Offshore Renewables

Two new free-of-charge training courses will take place in November as part of the MaRINET2 projects marine sector training programme.

Rentel has finished the installation of its last two wind turbines in the Belgian North Sea with the help of the marine engineering expert DEME.

The offshore wind industry’s largest floatel has cut an operational bottleneck with its new boat landing facility that is capable of transferring up to 150 turbine technicians into the field each day.

The UK’s National Workboat Association is launching an ‘Understanding Fatigue’ campaign to combat crewmember fatigue on offshore energy support vessels.

Scotrenewables Tidal Power’s first 2MW floating tidal stream turbine has clocked up over 3GWh of renewable electricity in its first year of testing at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Orkney,…

Wind turbine rotor blade access systems specialist, Gebr. Käufer GmbH Befahrtechnik has introduced its new K-BP-4 BAS system at WindEnergy Hamburg.

Swedish renewable energy company Seabased has joined in a venture with the United Arab Emirates’ company Infocom Connect to develop a wave energy projects in the Canary Islands.

Major Spanish shipyard group Navantia has started the construction of the floating foundation for the first full scale floating wind turbine that will be installed at the Portuguese WindFloat Atlantic project.

The European Commission has published a report on wave and tidal energy, which forecasts that global installed capacity could reach in the region of 3.9GW by 2030 - assuming current levels of…

The European Commission has approved the merger project Seamade NV which is responsible for both the development of the Mermaid and Seastar offshore windfarms in Belgium.

Alpha Offshore Service A/S has been awarded a contract with NoordzeeWind, a Joint Venture between utility company Nuon and Shell, for blade repair on the Offshore Windfarm Egmond aan Zee (OWEZ).

IRENA has published a report which, amongst other things, concludes that offshore wind energy stands on the cusp of rapid and widespread growth’ reports Andrew Williams.

A new brochure bringing together the latest East of England statistics, case studies of business success and maps pinpointing existing and future offshore wind farms has been launched at Global Offshore Wind.

Germany’s SAL Heavy Lift has signed a contract for shipment of a total of 49 transition pieces for the Horns Rev 3 Offshore Wind Farm.

A consortium of UK organisations has announced that it had secured £4 million in funding from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) to build the Aura Innovation Centre (AIC).

EDS HV Group has been appointed as the high voltage consultant by Vattenfall for the Horns Rev 3 windfarm development.

A PhD student at the University of Manchester has unveiled an innovative new method and software for using computer game technology to carry out complex scientific simulations in the wave energy sector.

Offshore renewables developer Oceanflow has been successful in winning Horizon 2020 SME support reports Dag Pike.