Offshore Renewables

A cutting-edge wave energy converter device trialled in Falmouth, UK is being deployed to its first commercial site. The Fred Olsen Bolt Lifesaver, the first device tested at the FaBTest site, underwent…

Atlantis Resources, majority owner of the world’s largest tidal stream energy project, MeyGen, has announced that it has executed a construction contract with global defence contractor Lockheed Martin for the delivery of…

In a matter of weeks some 450 exhibiting companies from nearly 20 countries are set to arrive at Glasgow’s Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre (SECC) for All-Energy 2015 – the UK’s largest…

Two new reports from the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) conclude that tidal stream energy has the potential to compete with other low carbon sources on cost, but that wave energy needs radical…

In early March, Swedish wave energy company CorPower Ocean announced that it had completed the final phase of testing of its advanced compact high-efficiency Wave Energy Converter (WEC) technology - which it…

Jan De Nul Group has signed an agreement with Dong Energy for the installation of subsea export cables at the Race Bank offshore wind development project in the UK during 2016 and…

The potential early closure of Longannet power station (Scotland, UK) has been blamed on “ludicrously punitive” transmission charges by Scottish Renewables Chief Executive Niall Stuart on the first day of the industry…

UK wind farm support vessel operator Tidal Transit has recently received an extension of the contract for its vessel ‘Ginny Louise’ from Statkraft, the Norwegian company that runs the Sheringham Shoal Offshore…

Roxtec, a UK-based marine seal manufacturer that is building a client base in the offshore renewables sector, has provided its waterproof sealing solution to the largest and most powerful tidal turbine in…

Canadian AXYS Technologies has announced the deployment of two dual-LiDAR WindSentinel floating LiDAR systems, utilising the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult’s offshore anemometry mast. In the North Sea offshore Northumberland, UK. According…

A Hull (UK) shipping company with more than 140 years’ experience of working on the Humber estuary has won a contract at one of the region’s biggest offshore developments. Rix Sea Shuttle,…

Conquest Offshore of The Netherlands, together with Deugro Denmark A/S, has developed a highly efficient installation system for monopiles and transition pieces for offshore wind turbines, supported by the engineering knowledge and…

Scottish tidal turbine developer Nautricity has secured a grid connected tidal test berth at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC), following successful sea trials at EMEC’s non-grid connected site last year.

Windwave Workboats newest vessel, Susie S, has started work on the Greater Gabbard wind farm having undergone modifications and design tweaks.