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SeaRoc currently provide marine, engineering, health & safety and data management services to a large number of offshore projects in the UK, Europe and North America. SeaRoc have signed a joint agreement with marine technology specialists CDS Wind Ltd. of Seoul, Korea, to help further develop the offshore wind energy industry in Korea and China. Working closely with the government, developers, turbine manufacturers, utilities, investors and financiers, this agreement is set to bridge the offshor... [more]
SeaRoc has announced it will project-manage the supply, installation and commissioning of two lattice meteorological towers in accordance with a specification provided by Forewind – the consortium responsible for developing UK Round 3 offshore wind farm site Dogger Bank.
The announcement is part of a wider offering by Fred Olsen United AS to supply Forewind with the innovative suction bucket foundation designed by Universal Foundation A/S, and fabricated by Belfast shipyard Harland and Wolff... [more]
SolarWorld have been selected to power the North American headquarters of Vestas, a leader in providing high-tech wind power systems. Both SolarWorld and Vestas have their headquarters for the Americas in the Portland area. SolarWorld employs more than 1,000 workers at its main U.S. site in Hillsboro, Ore., and more than 250 in Camarillo, Calif., where it has operated a solar-panel manufacturing site since the late 1970s. Vestas employs about 400 people in Portland and 3,000 nationwide. The comp... [more]
Last month, a delegation of government officials and politicians from Sweden have spent two days with key energy figures in East Anglia to discuss the social acceptance of offshore wind farms. Swedish delegates attended a special conference hosted by Peter Aldous, MP for Waveney, at OrbisEnergy.
The visit was organised as part of the EU- funded POWER Cluster project. Delegates heard about the opportunities off the East Anglian coast and how the UK has developed as the world’s largest market f... [more]
The Sheringham Shoal wind farm, located approx 20 km off the coast of Norfolk, England, will consist of 88 x 3.6MW wind turbines giving a total capacity of 317MW when fully operational.
Scira Offshore Energy Ltd. has awarded Baze Technology, contractor in joint co-operation with renewable energy consultancy Natural Power, with the contract for their wind farm portfolio information system, WindManager, on the Sheringham Shoal wind farm.
On the announcement of the Scira contract signing, Si... [more]
Baillie Wind Farm is situated in the north of Scotland, in Caithness region, approximately 7 km west of Thurso. Statkraft has decided to finance and construct Baillie Wind Farm in Scotland. Statkraft’s total investment is expected to amount to approximately GBP 60 million.
The wind farm, to be completed in 2013, will consist of 21 turbines with a maximum installed capacity of 52.5MW and will have an average annual generation of approximately 170 GWh.
This strengthens Statkraft’s position... [more]
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