Offshore Renewables

Scottish Power Renewables is progressing the East Anglia One Offshore Wind farm (offshore UK) with the award of design and construction contracts. This £2.5 billion project is a 50:50 joint venture partnership…

Scotland-based Ecosse Subsea Systems has completed a second major seabed clearance project on behalf of DONG Energy on what will be one of the world’s largest offshore windfarms.

The Swedish energy company Vattenfall and its partner, the Aberdeen Renewable Energy Group (AREG), have been developing the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre.

The deployment of the Oceantec wave energy converter, which has been designed by Oceantec Energy Marinas, as part of the EU-funded OPERA project is planned for September. It will be installed at…

Offshore wind turbine manufacturer Adwen and turbine rotor blades supplier LM Wind Power have unveiled the worlds longest wind turbine blade. The 88.4 metre long blade has been designed for Adwens AD…

German wind power giant Siemens has upgraded its most powerful offshore wind farm generator unit to 8 MW. Siemens, who has focussed its generator development on direct drive units, stated that its…

The Churchill Barriers in Orkney, UK link a series of small islands on the east side of Scapa Flow and they were built during World War II to form a protective barrier…

Dutch marine construction major Van Oord reports that its offshore installation vessel ‘Aeolus’ has installed the final wind turbine at the Gemini Offshore Wind Park, completing the installation of all 150 turbines

Magnomatics, a specialist in magnetic gear technologies formed in 2006 as a spin out from the UK’s University of Sheffield has announced that it is currently working to develop a marine current…

Cabling technology company Tratos has supplied tidal energy R&D Company Scotrenewables with an Italian -manufactured bespoke cable solution for its SR2000 2MW tidal turbine testing programme at the European Marine Energy Centre…

Swansea, UK-based Marine Power Systems (MPS) has conducted scaled tank testing of its new WaveSub device.

Leading international energy logistics provider, Peterson, has been awarded two long term contracts with Statoil to provide logistics support for the Dudgeon offshore windfarm in the North Sea.

Three more 36-passenger offshore CTVs will join Germany’s Opielok Offshore Carriers (OOC) in 2017 and 2018 as a result of the “outstanding” performance so far of the first boat in a new…

The UK-based Renewables Consulting Group (RCG) has announced the addition of Julie Drew-Murphy as Senior Associate to the team, bringing valuable offshore wind development, compliance and due diligence skills.

The UK’s vote in favour of leaving the European Union is expected to have a far reaching impact on the renewables sector in terms of investment and legislation.

Atlantis Resources, the Singapore-headquartered tidal power developer, has announced that an agreement has been reached between the company’s majority owned MeyGen project (offshore Scotland) and a nearby wind farm development to facilitate…

Ecosse Subsea Systems (ESS) has secured its first subsea trenching contract in Kriegers Flak Offshore Windfarm in the Danish sector.