2313 results found for 'Shetland Islands'

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  • Crown Estate’s Study Shows Great UK Wave, Tidal Resources

    11 October 2012
    Authorities & Government, Research & Development

      The Crown Estate today published findings of a new study into the UK’s wave and tidal energy resources, to help inform industry and government about the potential for future projects. The report finds there is potential for tens of gigawatts of wave, tidal stream and tidal range projects at sites around England, Wales, Scotland […]

  • Rolls-Royce Hits 100MWh Milestone with Tidal Technology (UK)

    27 October 2011

    Rolls-Royce, the global power systems company, has achieved a significant milestone in the deployment of tidal energy technology with confirmation that its prototype tidal turbine, located subsea off the Orkney Islands, Scotland​, has successfully generated and fed over 100 megawatt hours (MWh) of electrical power into the national grid. Harnessing the reliable and predictable energy […]

  • UK: Rolls-Royce Achieves Milestone in Tidal Energy Technology Deployment

    27 October 2011
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Rolls-Royce, the global power systems company, has achieved a significant milestone in the deployment of tidal energy technology with confirmation that its prototype tidal turbine, located subsea off the Orkney Islands, Scotland, has successfully generated and fed over 100 megawatt hours (MWh) of electrical power into the national grid. Harnessing the reliable and predictable energy […]

  • Leading shipping nations press IMO to adopt more ambitious climate goals for shipping

    2 November 2021
    Authorities & Government, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation

    Denmark, the United States, the United Kingdom and several other states have called on the IMO to introduce more ambitious climate goals.

  • Manson to Complete Oakland Harbor Dredging in November

    20 September 2019
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    The Oakland Harbor maintenance dredging project will be completed before the end of November, reports Manson Construction Co. of Seattle, Washington. As reported, this project includes annual maintenance dredging of the Oakland Inner and Outer Harbor federal navigation channel. The contracting agency – the Army Corps’ San Francisco District – estimates that this project will […]

  • Scotland votes NO. Stays part of UK

    19 September 2014

    Scottish voters have decided against the independence from the union with England, Wales and Northern Ireland. To the question “Should Scotland be an independent country?”about 55 per cent voters of the oil rich country voted NO, with 45 per cent saying Yes. Alistair Darling MP, Chair of the pro-union Better Together campaign said: “I want to […]

  • Antwerp tests 3D sonar sensors for unmanned shipping

    7 January 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Innovation, Ports & Logistics, Technology

    The University of Antwerp (UAntwerp) and the Port of Antwerp have been jointly testing 3D sonar sensors — innovative technology for autonomous inland shipping.

  • In focus: Emerging renewable energy projects to cushion effects of global energy crisis

    2 September 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Infrastructure, Innovation, Market Outlooks, Operations & Maintenance, Outlook & Strategy, Ports & Logistics, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Technology, Transition

    With the global energy crisis unfolding and energy prices soaring, governments and companies are ramping up investments in renewables, energy efficiency and clean technologies.

  • Overview of tidal and wave activities in 2014

    10 April 2015
    Authorities & Government, Research & Development, Technology

    Ocean Energy Systems (OES) has issued the Annual Report for 2014 that presents an overview of the activities undertaken within OES in 2014. Take a look at the list of OES members’ demonstration projects that have been tested in open waters. UK – EMEC, 5 wave energy projects and 7 tidal current energy projects were […]

  • Mocean Energy starts EuropeWave test program

    8 July 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Innovation, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Research & Development, Technology

    Scottish company Mocean Energy has begun tank testing models of its 250kW Blue Horizon wave energy machine as part of the EU-funded EuropeWave program.

  • Subsea UK: Caithness is UK’s new energy hub

    25 September 2014
    Equipment

    Caithness in Scotland, will be unveiled as the UK’s latest energy hub at an event in Aberdeen next week at a lunch and learn event, run by industry body Subsea UK.   According to Subsea UK, the organisation representing the UK’s £9billion subsea industry,  the event will showcase the wealth of expertise the area has to offer […]

  • Prysmian to Link Kilpaddoge and Moneypoint Via Underwater Cable

    25 April 2014
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Prysmian Group, world leader in the energy and telecom cable systems industry, has been awarded a new contract worth in total approximately €40 million ($55 mil) by ESB (Ireland), for the “Shannon River Crossing” project to provide electricity between Kilpaddoge and Moneypoint across the opposite banks of the river and along an underwater route of […]

  • First Minister Launches Industry-Led Energy Skills Academy

    23 March 2012
    Authorities & Government, Human Capital

    First Minister Alex Salmond today launched an industry-led energy skills academy, established with over £900,000 public funding, to deliver training for thousands of workers across key sectors including oil & gas and renewables. Nigg Skills Academy (NSA) has been built at Nigg Energy Park, which was purchased by Global Energy Group (GEG) in October. Highlands […]

  • Dredge Spoil Dump Ban Passed

    12 November 2015
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    The growth of Queensland’s major regional bulk commodity ports will be responsibly managed, and the Great Barrier Reef protected, under legislation passed in State Parliament today. State Development Minister Dr Anthony Lynham said that the laws put into effect the government’s key port-related commitments in the Reef 2050 Long Term Sustainability Plan. “We are protecting […]

  • Denmark speeds up Hesselø tender, adds overplanting option

    3 July 2020
    Project & Tenders

    Denmark is accelerating the tendering procedure for the Hesselø offshore wind farm to allow for the commissioning of the project one year earlier than initially planned. Located in Kattegatt, Hesselø is the second of the three offshore wind farms proposed in the Energy Agreement 2018, the first being the Thor project. Initially, Hesselø was scheduled […]

  • Natural Power Sponsors Scotland’s Community Energy Conference 2014

    1 December 2014

    Natural Power was headline sponsor for Scotland’s Community Energy Conference 2014. The Community Energy Scotland event was held on the 26th and 27th of November at the Edinburgh Capital Hotel. Natural Power has its global headquarters in Galloway, where it directly employs a hundred renewable energy experts from the local community. As well as providing professional renewables jobs […]

  • USA: Tracking Fish Through Coral Reef Seascape

    4 September 2012
    Research & Development

    Ocean scientists have long known that juvenile coral reef fishes use coastal seagrass and mangrove habitats as nurseries, later moving as adults onto coral reefs. But the fishes’ movements, and the connections between different tropical habitats, are much more complex than previously realized, according to a study published September 3 in Proceedings of the National […]

  • Atlantis Agrees Financing Package for Phase 1A of MeyGen Project

    22 August 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Atlantis, owner of the world’s largest planned tidal stream energy project, MeyGen, announces that it has agreed terms with a funding syndicate for a funding package for Phase 1A of the MeyGen project.  Total project funding package, which is a combination of equity, debt and grant, will exceed £50m.  The conditions to be met across […]

  • PLAT-I tidal platform generates first power

    12 December 2017
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    Sustainable Marine Energy (SME) has informed its recently installed PLAT-I tidal energy platform started generating power at Connel Sound in Scotland.

  • La Quinta Channel Dredging Completed

    9 February 2015
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston District, and the Port of Corpus Christi have celebrated the completion of the $74 million La Quinta Channel dredging project. The project, which began November 2011, included extending the channel approximately 1.4 miles (to a depth of 39 feet) and constructing ecosystem restoration features to protect endangered species, wetlands […]

  • UK: Awilco Drilling Signs Contract With AGR for WilPhoenix Rig

    16 March 2011
    Business & Finance

    Awilco Drilling Limited has signed a contract with AGR Petroleum Services for 1 firm well and 6 optional wells for WilPhoenix. The contract represents AGR’s multi well multi client 2011 drilling programme. The contract value for the firm part is approximately USD 7 million. Drilling operations are expected to commence early May 2011. WilPhoenix is […]

  • EMEC to fuse tidal power and flow batteries for green hydrogen

    9 November 2020
    Authorities & Government, Business Developments & Projects, Innovation, Research & Development, Storage, Technology, Transition

    European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) has purchased a 1.8 MWh vanadium flow battery (VFB) system from Invinity Energy Systems. EMEC will deploy the flow battery at its tidal energy test site on the island of Eday. A world-first project will combine flow battery technology with tidal power to produce continuous green hydrogen. The project gets […]

  • Former Chancellor to Speak at an Annual Energy Dinner (UK)

    25 February 2013
    Business & Finance

    Former Chancellor Alistair Darling will be the keynote speaker, alongside European Commissioner for Energy Gunther Oettinger and chief executive officer of Maersk Oil, Jakob Thomasen, at an annual energy dinner to be held in Aberdeen this week. The Rt. Hon Alistair Darling MP, who led the Exchequer from 2007 to 2010 under the last Labour […]

  • Water Wall Turbine Selects Switch 500 kW Power Converter

    16 September 2014
    Technology

    Vancouver-based Water Wall Turbine Inc. (WWT) has selected The Switch to provide a 500 kW full-power converter for its innovative self-floating power plant. This new commercially viable system extracts potential and kinetic energy from large, fast moving water currents for conversion into electric energy. The Switch will supply its first 500 kW full-power converter in […]

  • Sakhalin Residents File Suit Against Shell and Three UK Banks

    31 July 2012

    Today, residents living adjacent to a liquefied natural gas plant and oil and gas export terminals on Sakhalin Island, Russia, filed a complaint against Royal Dutch Shell and three of the largest UK banks: Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), Standard Chartered, and Barclays, for their failure to adhere to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and […]