Floating offshore wind power could be Wales’ 21st century version of the steel, coal and slate industries if a “hard line” is taken with the Crown Estate, ministers have heard. MPs called on the Government to ensure past mistakes with offshore wind projects are not repeated, and to guarantee new turbines off the Welsh coast are made by […]
Backing has been given to the first floating wind farm off the Welsh coastline. The Welsh government has given consent for the project, which will be located 40km off the Pembrokeshire coast in West Wales, reports Sky. Project Erebus is expected to provide enough low-carbon energy to power 93,000 homes. It will include seven 14-megawatt […]
French company TotalEnergies, in partnership with Simply Blue Group, has secured a marine licence for Wales’ first floating wind farm. The 100MW Erebus project is owned by Blue Gem Wind, a joint venture between TotalEnergies and Simply Blue Group. Located approximately 40km off the Pembrokeshire coastline, the wind farm is planned to have seven 14MW […]
Amazon is funding the world’s first commercial-scale seaweed farm located between offshore wind turbines. The project, North Sea Farm 1, will be located in a wind farm off the coast of the Netherlands, designed to test and improve methods of seaweed farming, while researching the potential of seaweed to sequester carbon. The project is managed […]