Offshore Wind
Cape Wind Seeking to Lease Area at Quonset Business Park
The developer of offshore wind farm project in Nantucket Sound, Cape Wind Associates, LLC, is looking to lease a property in Quonset Business Park for staging and assembly area for offshore wind construction. The proposal would provide the company with a twelve month option-to-lease nearly 14 acres
Cape Wind Seeking to Lease Area at Quonset Business Park
The developer of offshore wind farm project in Nantucket Sound, Cape Wind Associates, LLC, is looking to lease a property in Quonset Business Park for staging and assembly area for offshore wind construction. The proposal would provide the company with a twelve month option-to-lease nearly 14 acres
Underwater Centre Launches Work Class ROV Training Course
The world’s first training course in work class ROV operations delivered by an independent training provider has been launched by The Underwater Centre in Fort William. The first intake of students has started on the new five-week course – An Introduction to Work Class ROV Operations – which will ch
Norstec Academy Students Meet MP for Southampton on Offshore Wind Tour
Today, 11 students from universities around the UK and one from the Netherlands met with Dr Alan Whitehead MP and Copper Consultancy as part of the Norstec Academy skills pilot. Copper Consultancy, a Partner of the Norstec Academy, held a workshop with Dr Alan Whitehead MP for Southampton. The eve
GEV Offshore Sets Up East Yorkshire Headquarters
A company which strives to become Europe’s largest provider of wind turbine blade maintenance is to establish its international headquarters in East Yorkshire. GEV Offshore, part of the global GEV Group, recently agreed to lease an office and warehouse unit at Priory Tec Park, Hessle, which will acc
GEV Offshore Sets Up East Yorkshire Headquarters
A company which strives to become Europe’s largest provider of wind turbine blade maintenance is to establish its international headquarters in East Yorkshire. GEV Offshore, part of the global GEV Group, recently agreed to lease an office and warehouse unit at Priory Tec Park, Hessle, which will acc
APEM Backs East Anglia ONE with Bird Surveys
APEM Ltd has supported East Anglia ONE offshore windfarm from the project’s earliest days to its recent successful consent, providing data, assessment and expert advice on the development’s potential impacts on seabirds and marine mammals. The company planned and flew a two-year campaign of aerial s
DEA Extends Noise Modelling Report for Horns Rev 3
The Danish Energy Agency (DEA) extended the noise modelling report for Horns Rev 3 with more impact assessments. The underwater noise impact assessment undertaken for Horns Rev 3 was considering a worst case of the installation of large 10 MW turbines with 10 meter foundations being installed with t
Tekmar Demonstrates Its Cable Innovations at Narec
Subsea specialist Tekmar Energy is holding a series of live events to demonstrate its industry-leading cable protection systems (CPS), installation techniques and engineering developments. The demonstration days are taking place at the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult’s (ORE Catapult) National Ren
Floating Wind Energy Cost Could Fall below £85/MWh by 2020s
An engineering design study for the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) by The Glosten Associates, using their innovative tension leg floating platform (TLP) for Offshore Wind demonstrator has shown that UK offshore wind energy costs could fall to below £85/MWh by the mid-2020s, with further reducti
Floating Wind Energy Cost Could Fall below £85/MWh by 2020s
An engineering design study for the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) by The Glosten Associates, using their innovative tension leg floating platform (TLP) for Offshore Wind demonstrator has shown that UK offshore wind energy costs could fall to below £85/MWh by the mid-2020s, with further reducti
3sun Inks GBP 1 Mln Deal with Statoil
Aberdeen based 3sun Group has been awarded a marine operations and management contract by Statoil, worth £1million. The six month contract, which commenced last month [June], will be based within the Outer Harbour of East Port, Great Yarmouth, and marks the first time 3sun Group has worked with Stat
RYA Objects to Tidal Energy Development
The Crown Estate, manager of the UK seabed, has announced that it has agreed seabed rights for six new wave and tidal current demonstration zones and five new wave and tidal current sites around the UK. Of the 11 zones and sites announced the RYA is particularly concerned with plans to place a furth
Cromarty Selected as Home Port for Two Offshore Wind Projects
The Port of Cromarty Firth has announced that its deepwater engineering port facility at Invergordon Service Base has been chosen to fulfil the next phase of one of the world’s largest offshore wind farms. On Wednesday 9th July, the Chinese heavy lift vessel, the Xia Zhi Yuan 6 arrived into Port fro