Tuning in from the United States, Poland, Germany and Belgium, offshore wind industry experts have agreed that the market participants should learn from each other. Today’s OEEC 2021 Global Market Update session emphasized the importance of collaboration to accelerate global offshore wind developmen
“The ambition is clear, we need to go to the sustainable energy, carbon-neutral future, but there are many roads to that at the moment. Well, all the signs tell us that we need to speed up,” David de Jager, director of the GROW Offshore Wind cooperation told OEEC 2021 host Eva Brouwer in an intervie
The future of offshore inspections lays in remotely operated vehicles and drones, with the end goal of minimizing the crews’ exposure to dangerous environments, making the operations safer, more efficient and sustainable, Lex Veerhuis, Fugro’s development manager for new business, said at OEEC 2021.
The Borssele series: How did the Netherlands reach the point where the country would pay less in subsidies while also keeping the developers interested in building and operating wind farms off its coast?
The biggest excavation project in Denmark has now begun, Femern A/S reports. “We have started the excavation of the 18 kilometer tunneling between Rødbyhavn and Puttgarden in Germany, where the Femern tunnel will be located,” said Femern. “Our tunnel contractor FBC has inserted some of the world’s l
Netherlands-based energy giant Shell has sold Cardissa, its first LNG bunkering vessel (LNGVB), to South Korean shipping company Pan Ocean.
Global energy giant Shell completed its first LNG bunkering services at the Port of Gibraltar.
Nestlé UK has signed a long-term corporate power purchase agreement to buy the output of 31 MW from Ørsted’s Race Bank offshore wind farm. The UK subsidiary of the world’s largest food and beverage company, Nestlé, signed a 15-year indexed fixed price agreement with Ørsted. This is Ørsted’s largest
The Marine Energy Event 2018 provided a market outlook for marine renewable energy projects – focusing on the developments in wave, tidal, ocean thermal, and salinity gradient power generation at that time. Watch the contributions from: Andre Hoogeveen (Project Manager, BAM), Martin Edlund (CEO, Min
EU-funded Atlantic Action Plan (AAP) has launched the call of applications to select the 2020 Atlantic Project Awards. The Atlantic Project Awards will showcase and promote the individual winners while at the same time highlight the incorporation and scaling up of best practices at regional and nati
Ocean energy solutions company Bombora has recently been announced as a finalist in the ‘Wales STEM Awards’, shortlisted for the ‘STEM Start-Up of the Year Award’. Bombora is among 42 innovative businesses and individual finalists, making a difference to, and championing, Science, Technology, Engine
France Energies Marines (FEM) said that due to the evolution of the coronavirus epidemic, its third Scientific & Technical Tribune dedicated to offshore renewable energy (ORE) has been postponed. The event was supposed to takes place at the Ecole des Ponts ParisTech near Paris on 20 March, with aim
A team of pupils from Northgate High School in Norwich have been crowned champions of the Subsea UK 2020 STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) Challenge, which saw six teams from across the UK compete to design an ROV (remotely operated vehicle) to solve an environmental incident.
Following the rapid increase of Coronavirus in Europe, ocean technology marine science exhibition and conference, Oceanology International London 2020, has been postponed for 1-3 December 2020, Reed Exhibitions said. The even was originally scheduled for March 17-19, 2020. Jonathan Heastie, portfoli
