Posts Tagged ‘offshore’
10 May 2012
Transmission Capital Partners has been selected by Ofgem as the preferred bidder to own and operate the transmission link to the 250MW Lincs offshore wind farm.
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3 May 2012
Dredging and earthmoving specialist Royal Boskalis Westminster has won three wind contracts for projects in North West Europe worth €110m.
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26 April 2012
Siemens has cut its full-years earnings after reporting a grid connection problem with its offshore wind projects.
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23 April 2012
The Scottish public has shown ‘overwhelming’ support for wind power, a YouGov poll has revealed, in a bid to shoot down disapproval from US billionaire Donald Trump, who criticised the expansion of the renewable resource.
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18 April 2012
Poland-based utility PGE has received three government permits to build the first Polish offshore wind farms on the Baltic Sea.
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20 March 2012
Gamesa has announced it will be entering the distributed and community wind energy market in the US through a partnership with Harvest the Wind Network.
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7 March 2012
German grid operator TenneT and Mitsubishi have joined forces to invest in two offshore grid connections in Germany.
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2 March 2012
The US Energy Department has announced a $180m initiative to build four offshore wind farms.
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17 January 2012
A much-hyped offshore wind project set to be built in the US is still in search of buyers for half of the power to be produced at the proposed installation.
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4 November 2011
The UK’s Crown Estate has issued agreements for five offshore renewable energy sites in Scottish waters this week, signaling that more deals in the growing offshore wind sector are likely to take place over the coming months.
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17 October 2011
The government of the Isle of Man in the UK has begun offering energy audits to local businesses enabling them to identifying where they can most easily deploy energy efficiency techniques.
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15 September 2011
Global Blade Technology, a Netherlands-based engineering company, will open a wind turbine manufacturing plant in Indiana to target the US offshore market.
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5 September 2011
Despite the UK’s history of innovation in the clean energy sector, it has fallen short in its commercialisation efforts, with many companies failing due to a lack of early stage support.
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31 August 2011
The UK is to invest £6.5m in a bid to deliver engineering expertise in renewable energy.
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26 August 2011
Spanish energy company Iberdrola has applied to the German authorities for permission to build a 400MW offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea.
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26 August 2011
Irish project developer Mainstream Renewable Power has won three offshore wind development leases from The Crown Estate, two for its joint venture SMart Wind with Siemens.
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18 August 2011
The US Department of the Interior has launched the initial steps to develop commercial wind energy on the Outer Continental Shelf offshore Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
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11 August 2011
European wind turbine manufacturer Nordex will look to form strategic industry tie-ups as it targets both the offshore and Asian markets.
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27 July 2011
UK offshore wind consultancy Eventi has warned that government proposals to deploy 18GW of offshore wind by 2020 could be in jeopardy if it insists on a cost reduction to £100 per MW.
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16 June 2011
Danish utility Dong has teamed up with Iberdrola subsidiary ScottishPower Renewables to deliver the West of Duddon Sands offshore wind farm in the Irish Sea.
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