The wealth of career opportunities offered by the growing offshore wind energy industry will be the focus of a presentation given by Forewind together with The Crown Estate at a meeting of careers counsellors and training service providers in the Hull and East Riding of Yorkshire region, next week.
The World congress on renewable energy, which is scheduled to take place in Linköping during May, is expected to witness participation… By Cameron Chai (azocleantech) [mappress] Source: azocleantech, May 05, 2011;
Comfort at Sea, the joint venture between Blue Water Shipping, Denmark and ISP, Miami, has arranged a charter of the M/V SEA SPIRIT to Siemens PLC, as an offshore accommodation vessel for wind turbine installations in the Irish Sea. The vessel has been delivered Barrow-in-Furness, UK, and will be on
Engineers at the Maritime Research Institute in the Netherlands (MARIN) are in the closing stages of testing three different floating wind turbine concepts — a spar, a tension-leg platform and a semi-submersible — for the DeepCwind Consortium, led by the University of Maine. Researchers there claim
AROUND 2,000 workers would be involved in £450m plans to quadruple the size of the Liverpool Bay wind farm. By David Bartlett (liverpoolecho) [mappress] Source: liverpoolecho, May 05, 2011;
AROUND 2,000 workers would be involved in £450m plans to quadruple the size of the Liverpool Bay wind farm. By David Bartlett (liverpoolecho) [mappress] Source: liverpoolecho, May 05, 2011;
The Government should renegotiate “hugely and unnecessarily expensive” EU targets to boost renewable power by 2020, a think tank urged… (utilityproducts) [mappress] Source: utilityproducts, May 05, 2011;
With the European Council calling for a single EU gas and electricity market by 2014, ANN O’DEA looks at the implications for Ireland’s… By Ann O’Dea (siliconrepublic) [mappress] Source: siliconrepublic, May 05, 2011;
The coalition working to put a handful of wind turbines in Lake Erie aims to insert into the hotly contested state budget an amendment… By Chuck Soder (crainscleveland) [mappress] Source: crainscleveland, May 05, 2011;
A new training course for engineers working with wind turbines has been launched in Middlesbrough. (edie) [mappress] Source: edie, May 05, 2011;
A new training course for engineers working with wind turbines has been launched in Middlesbrough. (edie) [mappress] Source: edie, May 05, 2011;
Floating wind farms, ocean wave power, hydrofracking, and the state of climate science will be among the featured discussions at NYIT’s sixth annual Energy Conference on Thursday, June 2 at the NYIT de Seversky Mansion in Old Westbury. The conference, “Beyond Carbon: OffShore Energy and Technologies
Significant news for the renewable energy industry in Europe emerged yesterday after Connie Hedegaard, the European Commissioner for Climate Change, again stated that we should “be discussing a renewable energy target for 2030”, in an interview with the Guardian. In April, Hedegaard made a similar s
A new vessel will be visible off the North Norfolk coast over the coming weeks as further work continues on the installation of the foundations for the Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm. The ‘Oleg Strashnov’ is a state-of-the-art crane vessel designed for heavy lifting operations, and its key feat
