Offshore Renewables

German windfarm developer RWE Innogy has announced it has stopped development of its proposed Atlantic Array offshore windfarm in the Bristol Channel Zone, part of the UK’s Round 3 plans.

A kite systems that ‘flies’ underwater is now generating electric power in the waters of Strangford Lough in Northern Ireland.

Ireland based Arklow Marine Services has launched Guardian 18, a new wind farm service vessel which is the largest of this type to come from the yard.

Windwave Workboats has signed an agreement with Siemens Wind Power Service until the end of 2013 to support the Major Projects team and have assigned its 17.5m MCA Cat 2 vessel Samson…

Nordic Yards in Wismar, Germany, has awarded Kongsberg Maritime a contract to deliver an Integrated Vessel Control System for a new build 80m wind turbine service jack-up vessel owned by Danish offshore…

Fugro has opened an expanded soils testing laboratory at the Group’s UK headquarters in Wallingford, Oxfordshire.

Essex UK based workboat builder CTruk scored a hat trick with the delivery of its 12th 20T multi-purpose catamaran, CWind Challenger.

Under construction in Japan is a floating unit that will combine wind and current generators in a concept that is claimed to double the power output of conventional structures.

Marineco UK has placed another order for two more FCS 2610 Twin Axe vessels to serve its offshore wind activities.

Reducing the cost of offshore wind is vital for development of the industry and a report for Germany’s offshore wind industry has produced findings mirroring the challenges facing other countries including the…

Hochtief Solutions has conducted the first comprehensive rescue exercise in the offshore windfarm sector at a construction site in the North Sea (Global Tech I).

Norfolk UK based Tidal Transit Limited has been awarded an 18 month contract by Scira Offshore Energy Limited for its latest personnel transfer vessel, Tia Elizabeth, to service the Sheringham Shoal Offshore…

Northern Offshore Services has taken delivery of its first Damen Twin Axe, just weeks after the order was placed in August. The 26m Fast Crew Supplier is already being deployed at an…

Local unemployed people are benefiting from free places on a newly developed qualification offered by Maersk Training in Newcastle UK designed to help them take advantage of job opportunities in the thriving…

Ecosse Subsea Systems (ESS) has completed a £4.7m boulder clearing and pre-lay trenching project which it claims has been one of the most successful ever conducted for the wind energy sector.

Alstom is teaming up with GDF Suez in response to the call for expressions of interest for pilot tidal farms by the French President.