Bristol-based renewable energy company Marine Current Turbines has had a pat on the back from Secretary of State for Energy Ed Davey when he toured a new test centre for marine generation devices.
[Read more ] • 11.04.2013
Offshore wind developers SSE and Fluor have settled a contract dispute over the turbine foundations used at the Greater Gabbard wind farm in the North Sea.
[Read more ] • 15.05.2013
Belfast's Harland and Wolff shipyard has landed a new order to build an offshore support structure for a major new North Sea wind farm.
[Read more ] • 27.03.2013
Offshore wind farm developer Dong Energy has just installed the final turbine on its huge London Array project in the Thames Estuary region of the Southern North Sea.
[Read more ] • 14.12.2012
Dong Energy has committed to building a new offshore wind farm in the UK sector of the North Sea - with a €1 billion or £857 million price tag.
[Read more ] • 31.01.2013
New offshore wind developments are to be built in the UK starting next year – by computers.
[Read more ] • 20.11.2012
Power services group Areva has pledged to build a new wind turbine construction centre in Scotland which could create up 750 new jobs.
[Read more ] • 19.11.2012
Offshore innovators in the UK have been urged to participate in a new £10 million competition to help bring down the cost of offshore wind developments.
[Read more ] • 07.11.2012
Innovative suction bucket foundations are shortly due to be deployed for the first time in the North Sea on a new offshore wind farm.
[Read more ] • 23.01.2013
Partners Dong Energy, E.On. and Masdar finally began producing first power from the London Array offshore wind farm at the end of October - months after the initial aim to begin generating in time for the London 2012 Olympic Games.
[Read more ] • 05.11.2012
Development of a possible new UK offshore wind farm has taken a step forward with the award of a contract to fabricate and install two meteorological monitoring masts at the selected site.
[Read more ] • 30.10.2012
Norwegian partners Statoil and Statkraft have pledged to bring the UK North Sea Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm to fruition after buying out the project from its original owner Warwick Energy.
[Read more ] • 17.10.2012
A task force has been appointed by the UK government to try and bring down the cost of developing wind farms in the UK North Sea.
[Read more ] • 28.11.2012
Offshore construction giant Subsea 7 has teamed up with engineering group Bechtel to build a new partnership for offshore wind projects.
[Read more ] • 12.10.2012
Energy Secretary Ed Davey has been out and about in Scotland this week visiting both renewable and oil and gas developments.
[Read more ] • 11.10.2012
Norway's Crown Prince Haakon is due to open the latest UK offshore wind farm today which has been developed by Statoil and Statkraft through the joint venture Scira Offshore Energy.
[Read more ] • 27.09.2012
Offshore wind energy developer Scottish and Southern Energy has received compensation from a construction contractor over work performed at the UK Greater Gabbard wind farm.
Dong Energy has sold out of its UK Walney 2 offshore wind farm for £110 million.
Power specialist Alstom has signalled its intention to buy out a UK marine energy company from owners Rolls-Royce.
[Read more ] • 26.09.2012
Three new UK offshore wind farm developments in the North Sea have entered the planning approval phase to kick off the first Round Three projects.
[Read more ] • 31.08.2012
Scottish enterprise groups have pledged to invest up to £20 million on a new offshore wind turbine test facility.
[Read more ] • 10.10.2012
A new offshore facility for the giant Gwynt Y Mor wind farm off the UK coast has rolled out of the fabrication yard where it was built ready for installation.
[Read more ] • 22.08.2012
DONG buys offshore wind development projects in Germany.
[Read more ] • 14.08.2012
Designation of Scotland's new marine energy park will be a big boost to the offshore renewables industry, says one industrialist.
[Read more ] • 30.07.2012
Major companies operating in the North Sea offshore wind sector unveiled a new joint network today which is designed to capture all the benefits of offshore renewables.
[Read more ] • 04.10.2012
Britain's Energy Secretary Ed Davey has been pressed to change the way charges are levied for electricity transmission by a renewable power company.
[Read more ] • 18.09.2012
Lord Deben has quit as chairman of the Forewind Consortium which is seeking to build huge new wind farms in the North Sea after being appointed to a key government advisory post.
[Read more ] • 12.09.2012
A group of UK firms is set to receive a share of a £13 million government support package designed to promote the country's emerging renewable energy industry.
[Read more ] • 28.08.2012
Scotland's Pentland Firth and Orkney Water regions have been designed as a new marine energy park to test renewable energy devices.
One of the partners in a planned offshore Marine Energy Park in the UK South-west has backed a new move from the Department of Energy and Climate Change to provide further financial support renewable energy.
[Read more ] • 27.07.2012