Ocean Energy Europe has applauded the results of the fourth UK government’s renewables auction, stating that tidal energy can now take its rightful place in the UK’s mainstream electricity supply and calling for EU to follow suit.
SIMEC Atlantis Energy has secured UK government support to deliver the next phase of one of the world’s leading tidal power schemes – the MeyGen tidal energy project.
Scottish floating tidal energy company Orbital Marine Power has been awarded two contracts for difference (CfDs) in the latest renewable energy auction scheme in the UK.
The fourth round of the Contracts for Difference (CfD) scheme has seen the first-ever tidal stream auction winners – Orbital Marine Power, SIMEC Atlantis Energy, and Magallanes Renovables – who will together generate over 40MW of clean power from tides for British homes and businesses.
The UK Government has awarded Contracts for Difference (CfDs) to five offshore wind projects at a strike price of £37.35/MWh each. One of the five offshore projects, which have a total generation capacity of 7 GW, is Ørsted’s Hornsea Three, for which the developer says is the world’s single biggest
The biggest ever round of UK government’s flagship renewables auction scheme has secured record capacity of almost 11GW of clean energy, to be delivered across a range of clean technologies, including offshore wind, solar, onshore wind, and for the first time ever – floating wind and tidal energy.
The Norwegian government has decided to step in to avoid further loss of oil & gas production after offshore workers went on a strike.
Two companies have submitted applications for maritime concessions in Italy with plans to build floating wind farms in the Tyrrhenian Sea.
Equinor has received consent from Norway’s regulator to use Transocean’s rig for production drilling and completion on a North Sea field.
Wave Energy Scotland (WES) has embarked on a market probing exercise into the techno-economic benefits of shared services and infrastructure for wind and wave energy generation technologies and projects.
Norway’s regulator has investigated an incident with a short circuit and fire pump breakdown on one of Equinor’s North Sea platforms.
After deciding to buy MOL’s stake in two North Sea licences, Lime has inked a farm-down deal with Vår Energi for a portion of this stake.
Equinor has shut down production at three fields off Norway and revealed plans to do the same with four more due to oil & gas workers’ strike.
Norway’s government has devised a plan to ramp up output at several fields to maintain high gas exports to Europe and meet the growing demand.
