Renewable electricity generation in the UK outperformed fossil fuels for the first year ever in 2020, with offshore and onshore wind providing more than half of the country’s renewable electricity last year. Renewables generated 43 per cent of the UK’s electricity, while fossil fuels provided 38.5 p
Dutch survey contractor Fugro has been selected by Terna, the owner of the Italian national transmission grid, to perform a large multidisciplinary survey for one part of the Tyrrhenian Link interconnector.
Alpha Petroleum has filed its draft decommissioning programme for the Wenlock field platform located off the UK to the country’s authorities.
Norwegian oil major Equinor has received consent from the offshore safety body, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), for drilling and well operations on the Gullfaks field using the Transocean Norge drilling rig.
Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority has given Vår Energi consent to use the Floatel Superior as a mobile quarters facility on the Balder field off Norway.
Dutch-based company Water2Energy (W2E) is making headway with the construction of its next-generation tidal energy turbine that will be installed at an existing sluice in the Port of Flushing later in 2021.
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has released the Fourth IMO GHG Study which is the first iteration since the adoption of the initial GHG strategy.
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), has awarded funding to eight projects looking to develop and test new cutting-edge wave energy technologies.
A team of partners across Europe has launched the EVOLVE project with an aim to examine the overall market value of the inclusion of ocean energy in the European energy systems.
Columbia Power Technologies (C-Power) has entered into collaboration with RigNet for the supply of a comprehensive set of data and communications solutions for its autonomous offshore power systems (AOPS).
A New Hampshire joint commission is scheduled to meet on 23 March to discuss offshore wind and port development in the state. On 30 July 2020, the State Governor Christopher Sununu signed a bill which, among other things, established an offshore wind commission and an offshore wind industry developm
U.S. Department of Energy’s Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) has awarded funding to seven projects supporting marine energy testing infrastructure upgrades across five national research laboratories.
Non-governmental organisations are calling on the IMO to seize the chance to immediately reduce climate-warming emissions of black carbon from ships currently using heavy fuel oil in the Arctic by switching them to cleaner distillate fuels. As explained, the switch would ensure a cut by some 44%. Th
Germany’s Greens have promised to abolish the contested Nord Stream 2 pipeline to ship Russian gas to Germany in their election programme.
