Scotland’s first wave energy technology development body Wave Energy Scotland will receive a total of £14.3 million over the next 13 months, Scottish Energy Minister Fergus Ewing announced. The Scottish Government is supporting Wave Energy Scotland with a budget of £1…
Consent has been awarded for what will be the largest offshore wind farm in the world, offshore the UK. The Dogger Bank Creyke Beck development, to be operated by the Forewind consortium, is to be created out of two wind 1.2GW farms, each with 200 wind turbines…
DONG Energy has awarded offshore substation transportation and installation contracts for the Burbo Bank Extension, Race Bank and Walney Extension to Seaway Heavy Lifting (SHL). The three contracts cover the transportation and installation of in total up to five platforms…
Tidal energy operations provider Mojo Maritime Norwegian ROV firm IKM Subsea have jointly secured a significant EU Horizon 2020 Grant to support a €1,200,000 research and development project to develop an ROV for use in high energy tidal sites…
The first construction work on what will become the UK's first offshore tidal power array started in Scotland today (21 January). Contractors started work on a 340m access road for the MeyGen tidal stream project, says Atlantis Resources…
Van Oord took delivery of Damen’s offshore carrier (DOC) 8500 cable laying vessel, the Nexus. The Nexus. From Damen. The Nexus is a 126-m vessel that will be used for the installation…
Nova Scotia's government has granted four awards that will help tidal energy developers deploy the first turbine arrays in the Bay of Fundy. In October, developers at the Fundy Ocean Research Centre for Energy (FORCE) applied to the Department…
DONG Energy is constructing the offshore wind farm Burbo Bank Extension located 8km off the United Kingdom coast in Liverpool Bay. Image of DONG's Barrow Offshore Wind Farm. From DONG. Burbo…
MENCK’s “Gentle Giant” will be used to assist Bilfinger Marine & Offshore Systems with the installation of subsea foundations for Project Sandbank, a new 72 turbine strong wind farm in the North Sea. The Gentle Giant…
Iberdrola Renewables Offshore Deutschland GmbH awarded Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) in partnership with Volker Stevin International (VolkerWessels) a US$91.8 million contract for the partial construction of the Wikinger Offshore Wind Farm in the German section of the Baltic Sea…
Abigail Ross Hopper has been appointed Director of the US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), effective 5 January, the US Department of the Interior announced on 18 December 2014. Hopper, who will be the second director in the agency’s history…
Bladt Industries, Aalborg, Denmark has awarded Seaway Heavy Lifting the contract for the transportation and installation of the Sandbank substation. The substation platform consists of a jacket, skirt piles and deck and requires to be installed in the Sandbank Offshore Wind Farm…
Staff from a Scottish wave energy development firm which went into administration last week could now be given jobs at a new body set up to help develop renewable power from the ocean. The formation of Wave Energy Scotland (WES) by the…
Deepwater Wind awarded Gulf Island Fabrication, Inc. a contract for the fabrication of five jacket/piles for the Block Island Wind Farm off the coast of Rhode Island. The Block Island Wind Farm is a shallow water wind turbine project…
A consortium of nine organizations including Bluewater Energy Services, Damen Shipyards Group, Van Oord and the Dutch Tidal Testing Centre have partnered to deploy a trial floating tidal energy platform in the Wadden Sea. It will mark…
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