Offshore Renewables

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Three EU-funded R&D projects have been selected to complete their designs and fabricate prototypes for a one-year demonstration aiming to assess the feasibility of different ideas to generate electricity from wave power.

7th September 2023

3 wave projects win share of €13.4m budget

7th September 2023

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

A substation installed 30km off the German island of Nordeney is the next step to connecting 253MW of offshore wind-generated electricity to the German grid.

7th September 2023

Ørsted moves 2 offshore projects ahead

7th September 2023

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

CorPower Ocean has successfully installed its first commercial-scale wave energy converter in northern Portugal.

6th September 2023

CorPower installs first commercial-scale WEC

6th September 2023

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

A new merger has been formed between a German and Scottish firm to accelerate the move into floating renewables.

5th September 2023

UK/German merger forms to focus on floating renewables

5th September 2023

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Researchers have been awarded funding to create an offshore wind cyber security research and development facility that will protect the technology against cyber-attacks.

5th September 2023

Ensuring offshore wind technology remains cyber secure

5th September 2023

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Offshore wind capacity around the world is exploding in size as different territories set stringent renewable energy goals. 

5th September 2023

Decarbonisation: How far have we got?

5th September 2023

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Dutch firm FibreMax has signed an MoU with Entrion, a Texas-based manufacturer of FRP monopile designs, to increase the depths in which offshore monopiles can be installed. 

4th September 2023

MoU pledges to deepen waters for offshore wind

4th September 2023

VESSELS

VESSELS

Danish shipping firm ESVAGT and the Hvide Sande Shipyard have agreed to build ‘the transfer boat for the wind sector of the future’ – a bigger, stronger vessel with more room for…

1st September 2023

Danish firms to build ‘transfer boat of the future’

1st September 2023

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The US’s plans to expand offshore wind have fallen flat with the first lease sale for projects in the Gulf of Mexico receiving just one winning bid.

1st September 2023

Bidders take wind out of US offshore sales

1st September 2023

SUBSEA SERVICES

SUBSEA SERVICES

Fugro has been awarded two geotechnical investigation contracts for the development of the Dutch Nederwiek wind farm sites II & III (noord).

30th August 2023

Dutch wind farm survey double for Fugro

30th August 2023