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.

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.