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  • Ireland Could Supply Renewable Power to Britain

    29 May 2012
    Authorities & Government

    Irish Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Pat Rabbitte, launched yesterday the Government’s Strategy for Renewable Energy 2012-2020. The strategy involves wind, wave and tidal power, bio energy and R&D.  The document says that green energy and clean technology already support about 19,000 working positions in the country. According to the Irish Times, Mr […]

  • UK Urges Ireland to Build Wind Turbines

    20 June 2011
    Authorities & Government

    Ireland‘s unspoiled, windswept west coast could become the focus of a new wave of wind farm construction in the wake of a high-level … (envirolib) [mappress] Source: envirolib, June 20, 2011;

  • Ireland Loosing to Other European Nation in Renewables

    7 October 2011

    The Irish Wind Energy Association has today released alarming statistics, asserting that Ireland is losing out to other European nations… By Carmel Doyle (siliconrepublic) [mappress] Source: siliconrepublic, October 07, 2011

  • Port of Cork Outlines Development Plans (Ireland)

    5 April 2013

    Port of Cork Outlines Potential Plans for Port Development in Ringaskiddy The Port of Cork Company outlined plans for potential Port development in Ringaskiddy and announced a number of key dates for public information days. The proposed developments are the first phase of the implementation of the Port of Cork’s Strategic Development Plan Review (2010), […]

  • Intertek Supports UK-Ireland Greenlink Interconnector

    17 May 2018
    Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Intertek has been appointed by Greenlink Interconnector Limited, a subsidiary of Element Power, to provide marine environmental and planning support for the Greenlink Interconnector between UK and Ireland. Greenlink Interconnector is a proposed €400 million electrical underground and submarine interconnector spanning 170 km with a capacity of 500MW, linking the power markets in UK and […]

  • WSP Supports Wales-Ireland Greenlink Interconnector

    12 June 2018
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Greenlink has appointed engineering consultant, WSP, to its €400-million electricity interconnector linking Wales and Ireland. The 500MW 200km high voltage direct current (HVDC) link is being developed by Greenlink Interconnector Limited, a subsidiary of Element Power, and is due to start construction in 2020. The project is predicted to save Irish consumers around €800 million […]

  • Ireland: Arklow Shipping Expands Its Fleet

    21 February 2012
    Business & Finance

    With the addition of two new vessels ARKLOW MOOR and ARKLOW FOREST, the Arklow Shipping fleet rises to 44 vessels. The ARKLOW FOREST has become the tenth vessel in the ‘F’-class series to be delivered from Astilleros de Murueta SA.. The 2,998 GT newbuild, has a single-box hold with two portable bulkheads which can be […]

  • Ireland: Wicklow Harbor Dredging About to Start

    19 March 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    Rossaveal Port Services Ltd. will kick off the Wicklow Town Harbor dredging project tomorrow, reports Wicklow People. The areas that will be dredged are: – the main harbour channel; – the outer East Pier area; – the inner East Pier area; – the area between the North and South Quays. According to Wicklow People, this […]

  • ORPC Ireland gets Horizon 2020 boost

    24 June 2016
    Business & Finance, Research & Development, Technology

    Ocean Renewable Power Company (ORPC) Ireland has been granted funding through the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 programme to advance its hydrokinetic technology.

  • Providence starts 2D shoot in Newgrange (Ireland)

    18 August 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Project & Tenders

    Providence Resources P.l.c. has announced that 2D seismic surveying operations have now started over Frontier Exploration Licence (“FEL”) 6/14 (“Newgrange”), offshore Ireland.

  • UK Minister Speaks at NOW Ireland Conference

    21 November 2011
    Authorities & Government

    Department of Energy and Climate Change Released following speech of Charles Hendry: Thank you for inviting me to your conference today. I’m delighted to have been given this opportunity to say a few words to this gathering of leading figures in Ireland’s energy sector. The energy challenge  I’d like to start by recognising Ireland’s strong […]

  • INFOMAR Plans New Surveys Offshore Ireland

    2 March 2020
    Operations & Maintenance

    INFOMAR has advised Ireland’s Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport that a hydrographic and geophysical surveys will be undertaken in the Celtic Sea and Atlantic Ocean between April and October 2020. The INFOMAR Programme (Integrated Mapping for the Sustainable Development of Irelands Marine Resource), is a jointly managed seabed mapping initiative between the Geological Survey […]

  • Lansdowne’s Non-Executive Director Resigns (Ireland)

    11 September 2012
    Business & Finance

    Lansdowne Oil & Gas plc, the Dublin-based exploration company, announces the resignation of Non-Executive Director Steven Bertram with immediate effect. The Board of Lansdowne wishes to record its thanks to Mr Bertram for his service to the Company. The Company also announces that it has appointed John Aldersey-Williams (aged 50) to the Board of Lansdowne […]

  • Ireland and France Bolster Renewable Energy Ties

    19 November 2015
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Research & Development

    Ireland and France have signed an agreement in Paris at the International Energy Agency (IEA) biannual Ministerial Meeting to strengthen their ties and grow cooperation in the field of renewable energy. The agreement follows a successful development of the Ireland France roadmap including the establishment of the Ireland France Sustainable Energy Forum which was agreed by French Prime […]

  • Ireland: UCC researchers plan clean future

    7 December 2017
    Business & Finance, Environment, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    Environmental Research Institute (ERI) of the University College Cork (UCC) in Ireland has released its strategic plan for the next four years.

  • LiDAR Buoys Deployed for DONG Energy (Ireland)

    7 June 2013
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    The first commercial offshore wind measurement campaign using floating LiDAR in European waters has kicked off in the Irish Sea. FLiDAR NV has deployed one of its innovative LiDAR buoys for DONG Energy in the southern East Irish Sea. DONG Energy, the world’s leading offshore wind developer, selected the FLiDAR equipment due to its high […]

  • Mainstream Gets Funds for Seabed Survey (Ireland)

    19 December 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    Mainstream Renewable Power has been awarded funding of €1.4 million by the European Commission to cover half the costs of conducting a survey of the seabed in the Irish Sea to investigate the best route for the cable which will transport electricity from wind farms in Ireland to the UK’s National Grid. The survey is […]

  • Island Offshore Takes Delivery of PSV Island Duchess

    25 October 2013
    Business & Finance

    Island Offshore took delivery of the platform supply vessel (PSV) MV Island Duchess from the Vard Brevik yard in Norway on Tuesday, October 22. MV Island Duchess is the second vessel in a series of four PSVs of Rolls-Royce UT 717 CD design to be delivered from Vard Brevik in 2013 and 2014. The vessel […]

  • Island Offshore Takes Delivery of SCV Island Pride

    23 April 2014
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    Island Offshore has informed through the social media that it has taken delivery of the subsea construction vessel M/V ‘Island Pride’. The vessel was delivered from VARD Brevik in Norway. The vessel is of UT 737 CD design and is capable of providing trenching work, crane work, subsea construction, ROV operations, survey work, IMR work, […]

  • Gulf Island to Build Jackets for Block Island OWF

    12 November 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Project & Tenders

    Gulf Island Fabrication, through its subsidiary Gulf Island L.L.C., has signed a contract for the fabrication of five Jacket/Piles for the Block Island Wind Farm. Block Island Wind Farm is a shallow water Wind Turbine project located in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Rhode Island being developed by Deepwater Wind. Kirk Meche, President […]

  • Island Offshore’s ‘Island Constructor’ nets BP deal

    8 April 2016
    Business & Finance

    Norwegian shipping company Island Offshore has announced that its vessel Island Constructor has been awarded a contract by BP. According to the shipping company, the contract is for the provision of light well intervention services on the UK continental shelf in July this year. Island Offshore did not reveal further details about the contract except that […]

  • Highlands and Islands MSP seeks review into island interconnectors

    15 May 2015
    Authorities & Government

    Scottish MSP representing the Highlands and Islands, Mike MacKenzie, has written to the new UK Energy Secretary, Amber Rudd, calling for an urgent review into island interconnectors for Orkney, Shetland and Westerns Isles to keep Scotland’s leading position in marine renewable energy.  “We are ten years ahead of the rest of the world in wave and tidal power research and […]

  • Island Offshore Wins Charter for Island Champion PSV

    19 February 2013

    Norway’s Island Offshore has announced that Team Marine has declared the second, of five, one year option on the large platform supply vessel MV Island Champion. The vessel has been on charter with Team Marine since she was delivered in 2006 and is presently supporting the Captain oil field at the UKCS. “Island Offshore looks […]

  • Block Island Subsea Cable Reaches Rhode Island

    13 April 2016
    Storage

    A 20-mile long, 34.5kV submarine cable for the first US offshore wind farm arrived last weekend from South Korea to Quonset Point, Rhode Island. This custom-designed transmission cable, developed by South Korean LS Cable & System Ltd., will interconnect to the 30MW Block Island offshore wind farm and will transport energy from Block Island to Narragansett. The cable […]

  • Block Island Subsea Cable Lands in Rhode Island

    4 July 2016
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    Installation of a 20-mile subsea cable that connects Block Island to Rhode Island mainland and links the first U.S. offshore wind farm to the National Grid’s power system has been completed. “This significant milestone in developing renewable offshore wind generated energy is the result of years of work by hundreds of people,” said Rudy Wynter, president and COO […]