Energy transition offers lifeline to declining coastal communities
The harsh reality facing many coastal communities up and down the UK today gives a sad irony to the iconic music hall song “I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside”.
The harsh reality facing many coastal communities up and down the UK today gives a sad irony to the iconic music hall song “I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside”.
The first turbine foundation for Ørsted’s huge Hornsea Two offshore wind development in the Southern North Sea has been installed.
I like this. Despite Donald Trump’s vitriolic hatred of turbines. In August, more than 100 governors, mayors and government officials across 40 American states declared their support for the wind industry during American Wind Week 2020.
The head of the Aberdeen Renewable Energy Group is confident Westminster’s “green industrial revolution” pledge will create opportunities for the city to demonstrate its expertise.
Offshore wind consultancy firm OWC has hired James Rinkel to lead the development of its project engineering team.
Boris Johnson’s plan to quadruple the size of the U.K. offshore wind industry will require $58 billion of investment and careful management of what’s a tricky building process in some of the world’s roughest waters.
The renewables industry has been reacting to the prime minister’s commitment to implement a “green industrial revolution” that will generate hundreds of thousands of jobs.
More Government action will be needed to deliver the promise from Boris Johnson to power every home with offshore wind by 2030, the industry has said.
The failure to bring even a fraction of the Seagreen windfarm contracts to Scottish yards is a scandal on several levels and politicians should unite to insist on a forensic inquiry into how it happened – yet again.
Ørsted has teamed up with leading fertiliser company Yara in an effort to speed up decarbonisation of the food value chain.
Construction of Ørsted’s Hornsea Two offshore wind farm has hit a major milestone after the first significant piece of infrastructure was installed.
Sir Ian Wood has said diversifying into areas out of oil and gas is “absolutely what companies should be doing”.
Work to install monopiles for what will be the world’s largest offshore wind farm are due to get underway in the coming weeks.
The Crown Estate has awarded Agreements for Lease (AfL) lans to six proposed offshore wind project extensions in the waters around England and Wales in the last six months.
Unions, local business and industry representatives have joined forces to challenge what they call a “renewables scandal too far”, after supply chain firm BiFab failed to secure any contracts for a major offshore wind project.
Green energy produced by UK and Dutch North Sea wind farms could soon be fed into both countries domestic systems as part of efforts to hit net zero carbon goals.
Moray East, what will be Scotland’s largest offshore wind farm, has reached two key milestones.
A “fit for purpose” offshore wind planning regime is crucial if the UK is to meet its clean energy targets, Vattenfall’s UK country manager Danielle Lane told Energy Minister Kwasi Kwarteng yesterday.
Positioning the UK North Sea for a net zero future will cost more than £430billion, according to a new report from the Oil and Gas Technology Centre (OGTC) and consultancy Wood Mackenzie.
For much of their working lives, Aberdeenshire-based subsea engineering firm Aleron’s Mike Bisset and John Walker were in direct competition.
Scheduled to arrive in Norway mid-month under tow from Romania, Prysmian’s new cable laying ship Leonardo da Vinci is apparently firmly on course to enter service during Q2 next year.
BP has struck a deal to buy 50% of the Empire and Beacon offshore wind projects on the US east coast from Equinor for £845 million.
The Covid-19 pandemic has had a vast impact on people’s lives, as well as on companies around the world.
A renewable energy trade body is launching a new online event aimed at getting youngsters interested in offshore wind.
Equinor has teamed up with two of Japan’s leading energy firms as it looks to make inroads into the East Asian country’s expanding renewables sector.