Search results for: European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre

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  • First offshore wind project announced for Bulgaria to use floating wind tech and power gas platform

    25 January 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Research & Development, Technology

    France-based floating wind technology developer, Eolink, and 15 European renewable energy partners have launched an EU-backed project named Black sea fLoating Offshore Wind (BLOW). The project aims to install a 5 MW floating wind turbine offshore Bulgaria and link it to a gas platform in the Black Sea. BLOW will use Eolink’s floating offshore wind […]

  • Dutch test facilities form research alliance for offshore renewable energy

    7 December 2021
    Authorities & Government, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Equipment, Innovation, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Research & Development, Technology, Transition

    Backed by the Government of the Netherlands, nine Dutch research institutes and test facilities have joined forces to accelerate the research into offshore renewable energy.

  • North Sea Region Backs Ocean Energy Pilots

    14 December 2018
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Research & Development

    The Ocean Energy Scale-up Alliance (OESA) coordinated by the Dutch Marine Energy Centre from the Netherlands has been awarded to implement an innovative Pilot Accelerator Programme. In this programme, organisations work together to support the accelerated deployment of ocean energy pilots in the North Sea Region. The three-year project approved by the Interreg North Sea […]

  • Irish award contract for AMETS bird surveys

    10 June 2020
    Environment

    The Sustainable Authority of Ireland (SEAI) has appointed EcoEireann to carry out bird surveying services at the Atlantic Marine Energy Test Site (AMETS). Under the two-year contract, EcoEireann will provide a desk-based analysis review of all available data for the AMETS project, validating the existing data, and the use of survey techniques to collect new data. […]

  • Norway goes on oil & gas spree and gives its blessing to projects worth over $18.5 billion

    28 June 2023
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation

    Norway has greenlighted 19 oil and gas projects on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS) with investments totalling more than NOK 200 billion (over $18.5 billion).

  • New offshore wind targets to fuel REPowerEU green hydrogen ambitions

    20 May 2022
    Authorities & Government, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Transition

    The 150 GW of offshore wind capacity pledged to be reached by 2050 by Belgium, Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands under the Esbjerg Declaration, signed on 18 May at the North Sea Summit, will contribute to large-scale onshore and offshore production of green hydrogen, one of the focal points of the European Commission’s REPowerEU strategy, launched […]

  • In focus: Europe’s political balancing act within offshore energy realm

    20 May 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Outlook & Strategy, Rules & Regulation, Transition

    European governments’ efforts to balance the security of the energy supply and climate change materialised in the form of a plan, which is expected to reduce its dependence on Russian fossil fuels and fast forward the green transition.

  • EMEC verifies Dublin Offshore’s floating wind mooring component

    12 March 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Research & Development, Technology

    The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) has inspected Dublin Offshore’s mooring load reduction device (LRD) and verified that the system is in compliance with the International Electrotechnical Commission’s technical specification (IEC TS) 62600-10. Dublin Offshore has been developing the passive LRD for use on floating wind turbines, where it reduces the tension in mooring lines […]

  • Orbital to lead EU-backed floating tidal net-zero project

    13 September 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Innovation, Project & Tenders

    Scottish Orbital Marine Power is set to lead a pan-European consortium to deliver the €26.7 million FORWARD-2030 project dedicated to accelerating the commercial deployment of floating tidal energy.

  • Ocean DEMO backs six offshore renewable energy developers

    6 December 2021
    Authorities & Government, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Innovation, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Research & Development, Technology

    The EU-funded Ocean DEMO project has awarded recommendations for support to six offshore renewable energy developers to test their ocean energy products at Europe’s world-leading test centres.

  • EU Energy Commissioner takes a tour of Dutch tidal power plant

    18 July 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Equipment, Infrastructure, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Technology, Transition

    The European Commissioner for Energy Kadri Simson has visited the Eastern Scheldt Tidal Power Plant in Dutch province of Zeeland, to get a glimpse of the future where tidal energy is an everyday part of EU citizens’ lives.

  • Spain approves offshore wind and marine energy roadmap

    13 December 2021
    Business & Finance, Ports & Logistics

    Spain’s Council of Ministers, at the proposal of the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, has approved the Roadmap for the Development of Offshore Wind and Marine Energy. The Roadmap contains 20 lines of action with the aim of reaching between 1 GW and 3 GW of floating offshore wind power capacity […]

  • MaRINET2 hits €5M mark for free offshore renewables testing

    4 February 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Innovation, Research & Development, Technology

    The fifth and final MaRINET2 call results have been announced, bringing the project’s total budget for free lab, tank and open-sea testing for offshore renewables to €5 million.

  • Ørsted powers through pandemic

    12 August 2020
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    World’s leading offshore wind developer Ørsted reported a 17 per cent increase in earnings from offshore and onshore wind farms in operation in the first half of 2020. The earnings, which stood at DKK 8.2 billion (EUR 1.08 billion), were driven by the ramp-up of power generation from the Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm, […]

  • EMEC seeks marine energy development manager

    9 July 2020
    Business Developments & Projects, Human Capital

    Wave and tidal energy test facility European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) is looking for a marine energy development manager. The position should identify, develop and secure opportunities for EMEC to grow its wave, tidal and floating wind projects portfolio. This is a full-time, permanent post, which will involve routine visits to Orkney if the candidate […]

  • Isle of Wight tidal scheme launches public consultation

    25 May 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Outlook & Strategy, Research & Development, Technology

    Perpetuus Tidal Energy Centre (PTEC) has launched a consultation for the Isle of Wight public, providing an update on the project’s plans and seeking views on the development of a tidal energy hub off the island’s south coast.

  • Welsh marine energy company lands support for floating offshore wind plans

    9 September 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Equipment, Innovation, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Research & Development, Technology

    Marine Power Systems (MPS) has secured the support of the Offshore Wind Growth Partnership (OGWP) through the Wind Expert Support Toolkit (WEST) programme to further advance its floating offshore wind commercialisation strategy.

  • TwinHub offshore site investigation kicks off

    22 August 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders, Research & Development

    The offshore site investigation works have commenced for Hexicon’s 32 MW TwinHub floating wind project in the Celtic Sea. The first phase of the survey works has been awarded to Aratellus Offshore, which has subcontracted Sulmara Subsea to perform the geophysical survey. The goal of the survey is to make it possible to plan subsea […]

  • First offshore wind probe starts in Croatia

    30 March 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Research & Development

    Croatian oil and gas specialist INA has started wind measurement campaigns on two gas platforms in the North Adriatic to explore the potential for the construction of an offshore wind farm. The wind measurement equipment has been installed on the Izabela Sjever and Ivana A gas platforms located between 50 and 60 kilometers from the […]

  • Offshore wind costs in 2050 could be lower than previously expected

    19 April 2021
    Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy

    Wind energy costs, including both offshore and onshore wind, could decline 37–49 per cent by 2050, resulting in costs 50 per cent lower than predicted in an analysis in 2015, according to a new study funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and published in Nature Energy. In the same study performed in 2015, experts […]

  • Marine Power Systems seeks design engineering help

    16 November 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Human Capital, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy

    Welsh company Marine Power Systems (MPS) is seeking a graduate design engineer to provide design support to its design and engineering team.

  • Offshore wind project costs decrease with bespoke vessels and lower oil & gas activity

    10 September 2020
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    The rising number of purpose-built offshore wind vessels has a direct impact on the costs of offshore wind projects, as the sector is getting more room to use its own fleet instead of deploying vessels from the oil & gas industry, which can be costly if high oil price is driving increased oil & gas […]

  • Brazilian innovation centre requests licence for offshore wind test site

    27 April 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Innovation, Research & Development

    A research, innovation and development centre in Brazil, focused on renewable energy and sustainability, has submitted an application for a test site for offshore wind to the country’s Institute for the Environment and Natural Resources (IBAMA).

  • Offshore wind investments to reach $810 billion by 2030 – Rystad Energy

    30 April 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Transition

    With the global installed offshore wind capacity expected to exceed 250 GW by 2030, the combined capital and operational expenditure (capex and opex) for the decade is set to reach $810 billion (approx. €670.2 billion), signaling an increasing shift of investments from oil and gas to renewable energy technologies, according to a report from Rystad […]

  • UMACK anchor ready for deployment in wave energy project

    24 February 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Equipment, Innovation, Outlook & Strategy, Technology

    The first commercial-scale UMACK anchor has completed pre-deployment checks at CorPower Ocean’s facility in northern Portugal ahead of offshore installation as part of the HiWave-5 wave energy project.