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  • RenewableUK Welcomes Marine Energy Parks MoU

    28 February 2013

    RenewableUK today welcomed the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between Pentland Firth and Orkney Waters Marine Energy Park and South West Marine Energy Park, which extends from Bristol to Cornwall. The MoU forms a working partnership that will result in increased collaboration and the sharing of innovative ideas between England and Scotland. Each of […]

  • USACE: Preserving and Protecting Living Shorelines

    8 February 2019
    Business & Finance

    Coastal wetlands along North Carolina provide more than 3000 square miles of aesthetically pleasing vegetation. They provide food and habitat for several species of animals, and are critical as nurseries for a variety of marine species.  These wetlands help filter pollutants from storm water runoff, and protect or reduce inland damage from constant wave action, […]

  • UK Energy minister on Scottish independence: “Better together, poorer apart”

    14 April 2014

    If Scotland chooses to go it alone, it will have a huge and lasting impact on all of us, the Minister said.

  • DesignPro Wraps Up Orkney Islands Trials

    28 January 2020
    Research & Development, Technology

    Irish company DesignPro Renewables has completed the deployment and testing of its 60kW (DPR60) turbine at Kirkwall in the Orkney Islands, Scotland in conjunction with Leask Marine. The completely operational turbine and deployment system underwent a comprehensive series of tow testing to prove out all operating systems. Based in Limerick Ireland, DesignPro Renewables is developing […]

  • Wave Energy Scotland funds control systems trio

    27 March 2018
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    Wave Energy Scotland (WES) has selected three of the most promising control systems concepts from its technology program to share a little over £630,000 to further develop their ideas.

  • Hesselø project in need of environmental consultancy services

    11 September 2020
    Project & Tenders

    Danish transmission system operator Energinet has issued a contract notice seeking environmental engineering consultancy services for the Hesselø offshore wind project. In June 2020, the Danish Parliament decided to commence the development of the Hesselø offshore wind farm. This is the second of the three offshore wind farms proposed in the Energy Agreement 2018, the first […]

  • Norway: Atlantic Offshore Sells Its Oldest PSV

    8 June 2012
    Business & Finance

    Atlantic Offshore’s oldest PSV is now sold and delivered to new owners. The vessel will leave the offshore supply market and enter the windmill support market. It was sold slightly above book value.  Atlantic Offshore, previously known as Sartor Offshore AS was established in 2008. The company  acquired Sartor Shippings operation in Norway and Ocean Mainports operation in Aberdeen and Ireland. […]

  • OpenHydro Plans Jobs Expansion Over Next 15 Months (Ireland)

    9 June 2011
    Business & Finance, Human Capital

      OpenHydro, an Irish energy technology company, whose business is the design and manufacture of marine turbines for generating renewable energy from tidal streams has announced plans to recruit a number of additional positions over the next 12 – 18 months. This latest recruitment drive by OpenHydro to attract up to 20 new employees coincides […]

  • Huge threat to Scottish mackerel industry from irresponsible Iceland and Faroe quotas

    25 June 2010

    Faroe and Iceland have sparked major uncertainties surrounding management of the key North East Atlantic mackerel fishery, a leading industry group has underlined. In their report to the North East Scotland Fisheries Development Partnership meeting in Aberdeen on Monday, the Scottish Pelagic Fishermen’s Association (SFPA) say the actions of both countries represent a “huge threat” […]

  • USA: Comments Invited on Lee County Beach Renourishment Plan

    8 August 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District, is considering an application by the Captiva Erosion Prevention District for a Department of the Army permit to address erosion through beach renourishment along 6.5 miles of shoreline between Redfish Pass in Captiva and Bowman’s Beach in Sanibel, Lee County, Florida. The Corps issued a Public Notice […]

  • Captain ‘failed to ensure safety’

    27 April 2009

    The master of a ship failed to ensure the safety of three crewmen who died from a lack of oxygen in a compartment, Sheffield Crown Court has been told. Finlay MacFadyen, Robert O’Brien and Robert Ebertowski were working in an enclosed space on the Viking Islay ship off the Yorkshire coast in 2007. The men, […]

  • Wave Energy Scotland funds studies

    11 February 2016
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Research & Development, Technology

    Wave Energy Scotland (WES) has awarded £250,000 to industry partners for three landscaping studies in wave energy materials, structural forces and technology transfer. Arup’s team will lead the delivery of the research into structural forces and stresses, and the Institute for Materials and Processes at the University of Edinburgh will, with three other partners, carry […]

  • Greens: Government Locks in Decades More Destructive Sand Mining

    17 October 2013
    Business & Finance

    The Newman Government has today ignored environmental concerns and the opposition of Traditional Owners by introducing legislation to extend sand mining on North Stradbroke Island until as late as 2040. “Despite serious environmental impacts and pleas from traditional owners for the mining to stop, Campbell Newman is extending sand mining on Straddie until up to […]

  • Some South-West Coastline Residents Warmed up for Wind Farm Expansion Says Study (UK)

    27 December 2010

    IN THE Solway Firth, a planned extension to Scotland’s first offshore wind farm is facing opposition from local residents amid fears the coastline could be littered by hundreds of turbines. The proposals for Robin Rigg, put forward by E.ON UK, would increase the size of the existing 60-turbine farm by a further 100 turbines. When […]

  • Army Corps’ Beneficial Use Program Presented (USA)

    2 October 2012
    Business & Finance

    “The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District contributes to the well-being, economic success and quality of life of local communities by employing environmentally and economically responsible ways to use dredged materials to improve eroded coastlines through beach nourishment and beneficial use programs,” said Navigation Branch Chief Christopher Frabotta, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston […]

  • UK Wave and Tidal Energy Parks Form Working Partnership

    28 February 2013
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders, Research & Development

    RenewableUK welcomed the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between Pentland Firth and Orkney Waters Marine Energy Park and South West Marine Energy Park, which extends from Bristol to Cornwall. The MoU forms a working partnership that will result in increased collaboration and the sharing of innovative ideas between England and Scotland. Each of these […]

  • Scottish Shipbuilders Assemble First Hybrid Seagoing Ro-Paxes

    4 September 2012

    A dynamic team of Scottish designers, engineers and shipbuilders are assembling the world’s first hybrid seagoing ro-paxes. The two revolutionary passenger and car ferries will each carry up to 150 passengers and 23 cars or two HGVs and provide a vital ferry service for a group of remote islands off the west Scottish coast. Powered […]

  • Scotrenewables’ CEO Receives ‘Outstanding Achievement’ Award (UK)

    10 July 2013
    Technology

    Scotrenewables Tidal Power Limited’s CEO, Barry Johnston, was recently awarded the 2013 Lennard – Senior Prize in recognition of outstanding individual achievement in the field of Marine Renewable Energy. The Lennard prize, awarded by The Society for Underwater Technology (SUT), a multi-disciplinary learned society that brings together organisations and individuals with a common interest in […]

  • Highland Council Responds to MeyGen’s Consent Application (UK)

    10 January 2013
    Authorities & Government

    The Highland Council who are a Statutory consultee have issued a letter to Marine Scotland not objecting to the MeyGen Section 36 application which was submitted in July 2012.  These comments relate purely to the offshore component of the project and are disconnected from the onshore works consent which is currently with The Highland Council […]

  • UK: Lyness seen as potential North Sea decom base

    1 September 2016

    Orkney Islands Council has given DSM, a UK-based demolition and decommissioning company, the opportunity to consider Lyness as a potential base for North Sea oil and gas decommissioning work. The Council said on Wednesday that the project is at an early stage in its development but has the potential to bring significant inward investment and economic […]

  • WES awards wave power ‘horizon scanning’ contracts

    23 March 2018
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Environment, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    Wave Energy Scotland (WES) has hired a multinational professional services firm Arup, and engineering consultancy Frazer-Nash, to find the best opportunities for wave energy innovation and cost reduction.

  • Victims of helicopter crash named

    3 April 2009

    Victims of the North Sea Super Puma helicopter crash in which 16 people died have been named by police. Eight came from north east Scotland, with the others from Angus, Dundee, Dumfries, Cumbernauld, Liverpool, Norwich, the West Midlands, and Latvia. The 15 people named by Grampian Police were aged between 24 and 63. One person […]

  • DECC: Scottish independence would raise energy bills

    9 April 2014

    Launching the UK Government’s Energy Paper analysing the potential impact of independence on Scotland’s energy, Edward Davey MP, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, made the positive case for the UK’s single energy market, showing how independence would increase people’s energy bills. Speaking to a conference of energy industry stakeholders in Edinburgh, Edward […]

  • Scotrenewables’ CEO Receives ‘Outstanding Achievement’ Award (UK)

    10 July 2013
    Technology

    Scotrenewables Tidal Power Limited’s CEO, Barry Johnston, was recently awarded the 2013 Lennard – Senior Prize in recognition of outstanding individual achievement in the field of Marine Renewable Energy. The Lennard prize, awarded by The Society for Underwater Technology (SUT), a multi-disciplinary learned society that brings together organisations and individuals with a common interest in […]

  • Twenty Turbines Installed at Beatrice

    25 September 2018

    Swire Blue Ocean’s Pacific Orca has installed 20 out of 84 Siemens Gamesa 7MW turbines at the Beatrice offshore wind farm in the Outer Moray Firth, Scotland.