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  • ScottishPower Going After More UK Offshore Wind

    8 March 2019
    Business & Finance

    ScottishPower is actively pursuing future offshore wind projects in England and Scotland as part of its GBP 6 billion investment plan, to ensure one third of the UK’s electricity can be produced by wind by 2030. The energy company said it plans to engage with The Crown Estate and The Crown Estate Scotland on seabed […]

  • Additional Funding for Milford Pond Dredging

    15 July 2014
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) Secretary Maeve Vallely Bartlett has announced $250,000 to help fund the dredging of Milford Pond to restore open water habitat suitable for resident fish species and water birds. “Milford Pond has long been a piece of the town’s history as a place for residents to recreate and home to a […]

  • The Philippines: Dutch Expertise for Flood Problems

    16 July 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    Five experts from the ‘Dutch Risk Reduction Team’, which includes Deltares, are visiting the Philippines right now. They are looking at what is needed to make the country more resilient so it can cope with the forces of nature in the future. The island country is working hard on reconstruction work after the devastation inflicted […]

  • Seaview Seeks Permit for Bridgeport Project

    14 January 2015
    Business & Finance

    Seaview Bridgeport LLC is seeking a permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District, to conduct work in waters of the U.S. in conjunction with constructing a boat ramp, floats and doing other work in Bridgeport, Conn. The proposed project includes the construction of a boat ramp (approximately 35 feet wide by […]

  • SAMS’ Seagliders Contribute to Ocean Studies

    5 August 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    Robotic underwater Seagliders used by the Oban-based Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) have now gathered the equivalent of five years of oceanographic data, most of which was collected in the past 18 months. This milestone, which was reached at the end of last month, highlights a major change in how marine scientists collect information […]

  • Offshore Wind Developers Back UK Seabirds Count

    24 June 2019
    Environment

    EDF Renewables, Moray Offshore Windfarm (West) Limited, Red Rock Power Limited, and SSE Renewables have provided a financial boost to ‘Seabirds Count’, the fourth national census of the UK’s breeding seabird populations. Thanks to equal funding contributions from the offshore wind developers, alongside support from government and conservation charities, the count is now set for […]

  • Xodus Supports UK’s First Commercial Scale Tidal Energy Project

    30 October 2012
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    Independent, international energy consultancy Xodus Group has been retained by MeyGen Ltd to provide further environmental support for a major tidal project in the Pentland Firth, Scotland. The initial contract for Phase 1 of the project, was awarded in March 2011 and is now valued at more than £450,000. The work conducted to date has […]

  • Scotland’s Profits from Wave and Tidal Energy Over £217M

    25 September 2014
    Research & Development

    Scotland’s flourishing wave and tidal energy sector has invested more than £217m in the country to date, with £31.8m spent in the last 12 months alone, a new Scottish Renewables report shows. Crucially, the study revealed almost two-thirds (62%) of the growing industry’s supply chain is Scottish. Marine energy – in which Scotland is recognised […]

  • Scottish Renewables to Next UK Government: Launch ‘Green Bond’

    4 November 2014
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance

    A ‘Green Bond’ which would allow savers to generate returns from the growth of the UK’s renewable energy sector should be launched by the next UK Government, the head of the sector’s trade body in Scotland has said. The plan was outlined today (Tuesday, November 4) at the launch of Scottish Renewables’ blueprint for the […]

  • Scottish Renewables to Next UK Government: Launch ‘Green Bond’

    4 November 2014
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance

    A ‘Green Bond’ which would allow savers to generate returns from the growth of the UK’s renewable energy sector should be launched by the next UK Government, the head of the sector’s trade body in Scotland has said. The plan was outlined today (Tuesday, November 4) at the launch of Scottish Renewables’ blueprint for the […]

  • 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 […]

  • EMEC metocean data puts innovation into orbit

    8 August 2018
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Environment, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) has provided a series of metocean data sets to be used in a new Scottish open innovation competition for the marine environment’s and wider benefits.

  • World’s largest semi-sub rig on its way to UK ahead of North Sea job

    13 October 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    A semi-submersible drilling rig considered to be the largest of its type in the world is heading to the UK for its upcoming job in the North Sea.

  • Industry leaders applaud Scottish draft energy plan

    16 March 2017
    Business & Finance, Environment, Research & Development

    Scottish government’s draft energy strategy to 2050 has been deemed as ‘clear, aspirational and therefore challenging to do’ by Neil Kermode, Managing Director of the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC).

  • OpenHydro tidal turbine at EMEC up for removal

    16 August 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Technology

    The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) is looking to appoint a contractor to remove OpenHydro’s test tidal energy turbine installed offshore Orkney.

  • All-Energy 2014 Gathering in a Month

    24 April 2014

    With a month to go before All-Energy 2014, the UK’s largest renewable energy exhibition and conference, opens in Aberdeen (Wednesday 21- Thursday 22 May) the international renewables community is busy making its travel plans. “All-Energy really brings the global world of renewables together,” says Event Director, Jonathan Heastie of Reed Exhibitions. “With exhibitors from 20 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • MV Danio’s Operator Fined over Farne Islands Grounding

    28 March 2014
    Business & Finance

    The operator of a coaster ship which grounded in an environmentally sensitive area off the Northumberland coast has been ordered to pay nearly £73,000 in fines and costs after its crew failed to keep a proper lookout. On the evening of 15 March 2013, the MV Danio left Perth, in Scotland, with a cargo of […]

  • Western Isles HVDC Link Costs Rise (UK)

    5 November 2012
    Business & Finance

    Scottish Hydro Electric (SHE) Transmission plc, previously SHETL, has been developing a link to the Western Isles to meet the requirements of large and small renewable generation on the islands. Recognising that investment decisions are being made by contingent generation developers, it is important that those decisions are made on an informed basis utilising the […]

  • Managing Director of EMEC Presented with ‘Outstanding Contribution’ Award

    23 December 2013
    Business & Finance

    The managing director of the world’s leading marine energy test facility has been recognised for his outstanding contribution to the renewable energy industry at the Scottish Green Energy Awards last night. Neil Kermode, managing director of the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Orkney, was presented with the ‘Outstanding Contribution’ award at the prestigious ceremony […]

  • EMEC’s Managing Director Wins ‘Outstanding Contribution’ Award

    23 December 2013
    Research & Development, Technology

    The managing director of the world’s leading marine energy test facility has been recognised for his outstanding contribution to the renewable energy industry at the Scottish Green Energy Awards, held on December 6. Neil Kermode, managing director of the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Orkney, was presented with the ‘Outstanding Contribution’ award at the […]

  • Ottawa River Restoration Plan on the Table

    25 March 2016
    Business & Finance

    Ohio EPA and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have issued a draft restoration plan and environmental assessment for the Ottawa River in Toledo. In order to discuss the plan and listen to comments, a public meeting will be held on Thursday, April 7, 2016, at 6 p.m. in the Toledo City Council Chambers. The preferred restoration […]