Press Releases
Crown Estate Scotland has this afternoon (Feb 11) announced that the ScotWind Leasing process will be delayed.
Responding, Claire Mack, Chief Executive of Scottish Renewables, said: “Developing an offshore wind farm does not begin and end with deploying turbines in the sea and our members have already invested many thousands of hours, and many millions of pounds, preparing to bid into the ScotWind Leasing process. That process, which industry was first told would conclude… Read more »
Subsidy-free in the Dutch North Sea: Siemens Gamesa and CrossWind partner up at Hollandse Kust Noord offshore project
Contract executed for the delivery of the 69 SG 11.0-200 DD offshore wind turbines and 15-year service and maintenance agreement for the 759 MW Hollandse Kust Noord offshore wind project First project for Siemens Gamesa with joint venture partner Shell; second offshore project with joint venture partner Eneco Third project of Dutch national offshore wind… Read more »
Full speed ahead: Schmidbauer supports the construction of an Offshore Floating Wind Farm in France
Schmidbauer was commissioned a project in France to handle the heavy load logistics of three prototype floating wind turbines for an Offshore Wind Farm that is being built off the Mediterranean coast near Marseille in 2022. France, January. The view of wind turbines near or on-shore have become a familiar sight. In order to reach… Read more »
Register now as Virtual Visitor for Wind Energy Asia and attend all forum sessions included!
WEA 2021 in March will be a physical/live exhibition and forum and also hybrid with a great virtual platform. Register to visit in person in Kaohsiung, or virtually from afar. The platform is unlike any other: the look-and-feel of the real hall, move with the floorplan to talk to exhibitors, chat in the virtual lounge… Read more »
INTERSOLAR EUROPE 2021: AGRIVOLTAICS BRINGS TOGETHER AGRICULTURE AND POWER GENERATION
Munich/Pforzheim, February 11, 2021 – Photovoltaics (PV) is booming in Europe, with around 18.7 gigawatts of new capacity installed last year. In addition to rooftop and ground-mounted solar module installations, the development of new areas of production – such as on façades, artificial bodies of water and fields – is key. Agrivoltaics involves the use… Read more »
Bustling offshore wind sector boosts Scots SMEs
More than 20 case studies of firms working in offshore wind highlighted in new document Scottish Renewables CEO: this is ‘just the tip of the iceberg of what the future holds’ A busy year for offshore wind in Scotland is highlighted in a new edition of Scottish Renewables’ Supply Chain Impact report, launched today (Feb 11)…. Read more »
Power Roll raises £5.8m to scale-up solar film manufacture
Sunderland, UK 11 February 2021 – Power Roll, a developer of a game-changing, ultra-low-cost and lightweight flexible film for energy generation and storage, confirmed today that it has raised a further £3m, which takes total investment in the firm to £5.8m over two funding rounds completed in the last six months. Equity investors in the… Read more »
Offshore Wind Accelerator publishes new design recommendations to prevent export cable failure
11 February 2021, London: The Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA), a collaboration of eight developers and the Carbon Trust has today published new recommendations for fibre optic cable design to mitigate the risk of export cable failure. The cost-effective design changes are the outcome of the Fibre Optic Cable Protection Assessment project managed by the Carbon… Read more »
Power Electronics closes 2020 with 40GW installed power
Valencia (09-02-2021). – The multinational Power Electronics has closed 2020 with a figure of 40GW of installed AC power, which places them as world leaders in energy storage and the first manufacturer of solar inverters in the US, LATAM, UK, and Spain. The company has concentrated its efforts in recent years on the international side,… Read more »
Damen Partners with Sea Machines to Bring Autonomy and Wireless-Helm Technology to Ship-Build Customers
(Gorinchem, THE NETHERLANDS; February 11, 2021) – Boston-based Sea Machines Robotics, a leading developer of autonomous command and control systems for commercial vessels, announced today that it has entered a strategic alliance with Damen Shipyards Group, of the Netherlands, to incorporate the company’s autonomous and wireless-helm systems as standard features in Damen’s global vessel build… Read more »
