Brian Motherway will leave his CEO post in the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) to take up a new role in IEA. According to SEAI, Motherway will formally resign from the CEO post on December 2, 2015, to take up a new role as Head of the Energy Efficiency Division with the International
DONG to Build World’s Biggest Offshore Wind Farm DONG Energy decided to construct the 660MW Walney Extension offshore wind farm, located in the Irish Sea, approximately 19 km off the west coast of Britain. Van Oord: Dredging Companies Venturing into Offshore Wind (Interview) During the Offshore Ener
Norwegian energy company Statoil has made the final investment decision to build the Hywind Scotland Pilot Park, the world’s first floating wind farm, offshore Peterhead in Aberdeenshire, after Scotland gave the project the go-ahead yesterday. The decision triggers investments of around NOK 2 billio
Norwegian energy company Statoil has made the final investment decision to build the Hywind Scotland Pilot Park, the world’s first floating wind farm, offshore Peterhead in Aberdeenshire, after Scotland gave the project the go-ahead yesterday. The decision triggers investments of around NOK 2 billio
Norwegian-based tidal energy developer, Tidal Sails, has received all the necessary permits to develop a 4 MW tidal energy power plant in Kvalsund Strait, near Hammerfest, Northern Norway. According to Are Børgesen, Chairman and Founder of Tidal Sails, the project proposal is up for European Commiss
Wave Energy Scotland (WES) has allocated £2.25 million to 8 technology developers and consortia as part of its second competitive call for novel wave energy converters. The projects will receive £300,000 each to take their technologies through WES’ stage one technology development process over the p
The Scottish Government has granted a marine licence to Statoil for the construction of Hywind Scotland project, the world’s largest floating offshore wind development. The pilot park will comprise five floating 6MW turbines installed approximately 25km off the coast of Peterhead, with a generating
RenewableUK says today’s announcement by RWE Innogy of new project partners and investors for the Galloper offshore wind farm off the coast of Suffolk demonstrates the robustness of Britain’s world-leading offshore wind market. It follows the announcement on Wednesday that DONG Energy has made a fin
Azerbaijan is moving forward with its plans to develop an offshore wind farm in Caspian Sea. Namely, the plans for the 200MW offshore wind project have been submitted to the Azerbaijan government, writes Trend News Agency. The project, worth AZN 450-500 million (EUR 390-433 million), has attracted i
The Renewable Energy Association (REA) has placed the blame on shallow government support for wave and tidal energy for the yesterday’s announcement of Aquamarine Power’s going into the administration. Responding to the news that renewable energy firm Aquamarine Power has called in administrators to
UK Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC) has released energy statistics report for the second quarter of 2015. In 2015 Q2, total electricity generated remained unchanged at 78.8 TWh compared to a year earlier. The share of renewables (hydro, wind, and other renewables) in electricity generati
Carnegie Wave Energy has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Western Australian Government power utility Western Power to deliver a world first renewable energy island microgrid project. The Garden Island Microgrid Project (GIMG) will consist of the CETO 6 Project currently in progress and the
Horizon 2020, the biggest EU Research and Innovation programme, has issued a call for submission in renewable energy technologies and low carbon energy. A total of €118.3 million in total will be available for project proposals while a sum of €61.3 million will go for developing of the next generati
Horizon 2020, the European Commission’s research and innovation programme, is calling for submissions of project proposals competing for European grants in renewable energy technologies and low carbon energy. The €118.3 million call comprises several aspects of renewable and low carbon energy, inclu
