25 Jul 2016
Scottish Legal News: RSPB wins legal challenge to put four Scottish wind farms on hold A bird conservation charity has successfully challenged plans to develop four offshore wind farms in the Firth of Forth and Firth of Tay. A judge in the Court of Session ruled that the decisions by the Scottish Ministers to grant consent for the construction […]
09 Jul 2016
Offshore Renewables Innovation: Two major projects, floating turbine and WaveRoller – note the involvement of the European Investment Bank in the later! Giant 5MW Hitachi turbine becomes third floating turbine to be deployed as part of Fukushima FORWARD project One of the world’s largest floating offshore wind turbines set sail earlier this week from Osaka […]
27 Jun 2016
Dong Energy Investment report The investment is delivering significant benefits to the local economy across the region especially in the Liverpool region, Cumbria and Northern Ireland, creating jobs and helping local supply chain businesses to grow. With four offshore wind farms already operation off the North West coastline, DONG Energy is currently constructing two more […]
17 May 2016
Business Green: Norwegian firm Statoil set to start construction of ‘world’s largest’ floating wind farm in the coming months after securing sea bed lease. Construction work is set to begin later this year on what will be the world’s largest floating wind farm, after the project was granted a seabed lease by the Crown Estate […]
09 Feb 2016
Changes in fishing practices around the UK as a result of the development of offshore windfarms – Phase 1 New research report available from The Crown Estate This report may be downloaded from The Crown Estate website at: http://www.thecrownestate.co.uk/energy-and-infrastructure/research/energy-research/reports/ Summary A new report, ‘Changes to fishing practices around the UK as a result of the […]
08 Feb 2016
Guardian: ‘Dong Energy makes final investment decision on 1.2-gigawatt project that will power more than a million UK homes. The UK wind energy industry received a boost with the announcement of the world’s biggest offshore windfarm, is to be built off the north-east coast. Dong Energy said its multi-billion pound Hornsea project, which is expected […]
16 Nov 2015
Energy & Environment management ‘The European Investment Bank has announced today (30 October 2015) that it is to provide £225 million (EUR314 million) to help fund the 336MW Galloper Wind Farm in the North Sea east of Felixstowe. The European investment is part of a £1.37 billion (EUR1.9 billion) debt financing deal with 12 commercial […]
12 Oct 2015
Study highlights potential gannet mortality in the Forth from offshore wind By MarEx 2015-09-28 19:08:03 Marine Executive With about four percent of its population using offshore wind power, the U.K. is arguably the world leader in clean energy. But a new study suggests that the U.K.’s aims to harness renewable energy could have an unintended […]
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