Swedish energy firm Vattenfall announced this week that it has started development on the 3.6 GW Norfolk Vanguard offshore wind farm. Last week, the UK’s Crown Estate announced finalized revisions to its Round 3 offshore wind farm development agreements with DONG Energy, ScottishPower Renewables, and Vattenfall — though at the … [continued]
One of the UK’s largest property owners, the Crown Estate, has launched an interactive map of the country’s offshore wind system. The interactive map draws together a range of publicly available data to show the approximate percentage share of the country’s electricity currently being generated by offshore wind. The map … [continued]
A new report, delivered by the UK’s Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult in time to coincide with the news that contracts were awarded to two offshore wind farms to be built in the United Kingdom, goes a long way to proving the cost of offshore wind energy is falling. According to … [continued]
Atlantis Resources Limited, owner of development rights to the Pentland Firth, has awarded Zurich-based ABB the contract to install tidal power conversion and grid connection systems for the four-turbine, 6-megawatt demonstration phase of the MeyGen tidal stream project. ABB is the world’s premier maker of power grids and a well-known multinational engineering company. … [continued]
The UK Crown Estate, which manages the country’s seabed, has announced new agreements for six new wave and tidal-current demonstration zones and five new wave and tidal-current sites. The six new demonstration zones will for the first time allow locally-based organisations to manage and sub-let parts of the seabed to … [continued]
German electric utility company RWE has announced that they are scrapping plans to build the £4 billion Atlantic Array offshore wind farm in the Bristol Channel Zone. The project would have resulted in one of the world’s largest offshore wind farms, with a planned 1.2 GW, but RWE has cited technical … [continued]
In Scotland, developers have been cutting back on offshore wind deployment due to the high cost of it. The installation of wind turbines into the sea floor is part of this issue. But a long-waiting solution is floating wind turbines. In Scotland, a floating wind farm project called the Buchan … [continued]
There are 153 GW of potential tidal and wave power capacity in the UK, according to a new report from the Crown Estate. The new report was commissioned to help predict the future of the technology. The report from the Crown Estate underlines the enormous energy potential in the … [continued]
