Offshore Renewables

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.

Seatools will produce an anode cage installation tool for GeoSea, part of installation operations for the Hohe See offshore wind farm (OFW), off the coast of Germany.

Construction of a floating wind farm off Scotland’s north east coast is near completion and will enable wind energy to be generated in deep water unsuitable for conventional turbines.

Netherlands-owned Acta Marine’s construction support vessel Acta Orion is carrying out accommodation and walk-to-work duties for Siemens on Dong Energy’s Norfolk offshore wind farm, Race Bank.

LiDARs have replaced met masts to become the sole wind measurement tool used for offshore resource assessment and power curve verification purposes, wind measurement experts at a London conference claim.

During May, Wave Energy Scotland and the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) published a series of guidance documents presenting the findings of the Orkney supply chain wave energy device testing project. So…

Offshore energy service vessel operator, Seacat Services, has agreed a two-year charter contract to provide support through early operations at the UKs new 336MW Galloper offshore windfarm.

A partnership to deliver high yield water turbines has been established by two Dutch companies; electrical system integrator, Bakker Sliedrecht, and water turbine manufacturer, Water2Energy.

In recent years, the Irish wave and tidal energy sector has steadily grown - with a number of companies and organisations now making solid progress in the development of devices around the…

An innovative new project aimed at developing and demonstrating critical components for the monitoring, control and electrical connection of reliable Ocean Energy Arrays (OEAs) has recently moved from concept development to the…

During March, UK tidal energy company Atlantis Resources announced that it had inked a deal with the French specialist marine engineering outfit INNOSEA in a bid to grab a slice of the…

In the middle of March, Irish renewable energy company Gaelectric announced that it has entered into a strategic partnership with French outfit Ideol to develop a number of floating offshore wind energy…

In early March 2017, a consortium of UK universities and offshore wind energy companies launched a novel initiative to assess the potential application of advanced technologies such as robotics and artificial intelligence…

Natural Resources Wales has given consent is for a 0.5 MW Deep Green tidal generating device to be installed in the southern corner of the Holyhead Deep in the UK’s Irish Sea.…

With the offshore wind market entering maturity the focus for renewables is turning further towards tidal and wave energy with tidal energy attracting a lot of attention.