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19-01-2010
Tide turning for UK renewables project - Business Green
Three new projects approved in Scotland as UK planning authority eyes growing list of large-scale schemes...
19-01-2010
Ofgem approves power grid spend rise - Reuters
Energy regulator Ofgem said on Tuesday it will allow electricity network companies to spend an extra 319 million on upgrades to connect renewable energy sources from April...
19-01-2010
Skykon plan £14m expansion for former Vestas factory - New Energy Focus
Wind turbine tower manufacturer Skykon is set to invest £14 million in expanding subsidiary Wecon Towers' factory...
18-01-2010
Riso embeds smart senor system for offshore wind turbines - Renewable Energy Focus
The embedded smart sensor system will allow operators of offshore wind farms to check the health of the wind turbines, while the operator is sitting onshore...
18-01-2010
European offshore wind power market up 54% in 2009 - Renewable Energy Focus
The European offshore wind power market grew 54% in 2009 according to the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA)...
18-01-2010
Crunch may dampen offshore wind boom - Reuters
Europe is set to add about 1,000 megawatts of new wind power capacity in 2010 but tight credit could limit further investment in the low-carbon technology...
18-01-2010
Britain and Denmark lead offshore wind - Offshore 24/7
Together Britain and Denmark were at the top of a league table of offshore wind farm installers during 2009...
18-01-2010
Barrow could benefit from wind farm - Westmorland Gazette
Barrow is hoping to benefit from a new offshore wind energy farm which is set to be built nearby and could lead to new jobs being created...
18-01-2010
Lack of Finance Threat to Wind Power Growth - Financial Times Online
Uncertainty over long-term government support and a shortage of finance risk hampering the huge expansion of offshore wind power planned by the government, the industry has warned...
18-01-2010
New offshore wind agreement between Dong Energy & Siemans - Renewable Energy Magazine
Siemans and Dong Energy have further expanded their cooperation in the offshore wind sector by extending the supply agreement they signed in 2009...
14-01-2010
Scotland:A busy year ahead - BWEA Real Power Issue 18
By the time you read this some key announcements ill have already been made. Scottish Ministers should have determined the fate of the proposed Beauly Denny transmission upgrade...
14-01-2010
What's holding up the super smart supergrid - BWEA Real Power Issue 18
A 50% increase in world energy demand is expected by 2030, leading to tougher competition for diminishing resources. Energy prices are rising across the board and this year Ofgem has warned energy consumers in the UK that prices rise are inevitable...
14-01-2010
Training bottleneck could stall offshore aspirations - BWEA Real Power Issue 18
As the wind industry begins to ramp its activities to deliver ambitious offshore plans, the National Skills Academy for Power has highlighted a worrying lack of power-sector skills as a serious barrier to delivering these plans...
14-01-2010
BWEA staff trained in marine survival - BWEA Real Power Issue 18
In November 2009, two members of the BWEA offshore team, Duncan Ayling and Peter Madigan, traveled to Aberdeen to complete the BWEA Marine Survival Training Course...
14-01-2010
Developing a Conservative energy policy - BWEA Real Power Issue 18
The Conservative party has intimated that it intends to publish a White Paper on energy policy in January 2010. This follows its Green Paper in early 2009, and will give a clear indication of the Conservatives intent...
14-01-2010
New wind farms will need new foundation technology - New Civil Engineer
Current offshore foundation technology cannot be used for the next round of offshore wind farms, engineers warned this week...
14-01-2010
RES reveals details of work with Centrica in Round 3 zone - New Energy Focus
Wind energy project specialist RES Offshore has confirmed it is to support Centrica in the development of up to 4.2GW of offshore wind projects in the Irish Sea Zone...
14-01-2010
Offshore wind farms is set to create up to 70,000 jobs in the UK - Guardian Online
According to e4s.co.uk, nine new offshore wind farms will create up to 70,000 permanent and temporary jobs in the UK...
13-01-2010
BT focuses energy on Scotland for surge of investment in windpower - Business Scotsman
Telecoms giant BT targeting Scotland in green energy drive as it gears up for further investment in wind power...
13-01-2010
NaREC's Andrew Mill on the importance of Offshore Wind Crown Estate Round 3 - Green Wise
Last week's announcement of successful consortia awarded licences for the development of UK Crown Estate Round Three Offshore Wind Farms is a huge step forward for the UK...
13-01-2010
Renewable Energy Supergrid coming to Europe - Alternative Energy
UK's energy and climate change minister, Lord Hunt shares his opinion, "We recognise that the north Sea has huge resources, we are exploiting those in the UK quite intensively at the moment...
13-01-2010
Green light for £80m wind farm to feed Beauly-Denny power line - Scotsman
The Scottish Government yesterday approved an £80 million wind farm that will feed into the controversial Beauly-Denny power line, given the go-ahead last week...
12-01-2010
Argyll hopes good will blow in from wind farm expansion - Times Online
A Scottish wind turbine factory that was saved from closure after vocal national campaign is optimistic that it will benefit from moves at Westminster to extend offshore power...
12-01-2010
Offshore super grid needed for Round 3, says successful bidder - New Energy Focus
THe success of Round 3 could depend on having the first stages of an offshore European supergrid in place by 2017, according to the chief executive of Mainstream Renewable Power...
12-01-2010
Clean energy boost - Times & Star
Hopes of thousands of new jobs being created in Cumbria over the coming years from clean energy projects have been raised by a new report...
12-01-2010
Prysmian will develop the power links for the Walney offshore wind farm - Your Project News
The new 18 million euro contract follows the 24.5million euro for the first phase of the project and confirms the dynamism in the renewable energy sector...
12-01-2010
Offshore wind farm decision took account of wildlife impacts - Fish News EU
The successful bidders of the Crown Estate's tender competition for the next generation of offshore wind farms were announced on Friday and Natural England commended the Crown Estate on a robust selection process which has been proper account of the impacts on wildlife...
11-01-2010
Government urged to ensure Round 3 jobs stay in UK - New Energy Focus
The successful Round 3 tenders have been widely welcomed by trade bodies for the renewables sector, but the Government has been warned it must do more to ensure the jobs and revenue created stay in Britain...
11-01-2010
New offshore wind projects to enjoy burgeoning investor confidence - Business Green
Industry body and contract winner say economic case for Round Three projects in plenty strong enough to attract investors...
10-01-2010
UK power prepares for cold wind of change - Guardian Online
The government's new green initiatives are unlikely to come online fast enough to plug our growing energy gap...
09-01-2010
Wind farm boost for town - Northwest Evening Mail
Work to help develop up to 1,000 new wind turbines could mean a boom time for Barrow port...
09-01-2010
UK's Crown Estate announcement expanding offshore wind farms - Crown Estate
The Crown Estate has announced the successful bidders for each of the nine Round 3 offshore wind zones within UK waters...
09-01-2010
"We can build new UK industry from offshore wind revolution" says BWEA - Reve
'Round Three, of offshore wind farm allocations to increase world market by 20 times. Announcement by the Crown Estate welcomed, but Govt action needed to win manufacturing base for UK...
08-01-2010
RWE, Centrica win UK wind permits in biggest offshore program - Business Week
RWE AG, Statoil ASA and Centrica Plc won licences in Britain's $120 billion offshore wind program, the world's biggest, as the nation plans deep-water turbines to meet emission targets and help avert an energy shortfall...
08-01-2010
Winds farms could power half of Britain's homes, but jobs could go overseas - Times Online
Nine giant new wind farms in the seas around Britain will be announced today, but few of the 6,000 turbines needed are likely to be built here...
08-01-2010
Plans for £100bn wind power programme called into question - Telegraph Online
Plans to power every home in Britain with electricity generated by 6,000 new wind turbines around the coast have been called into question due to a shortage of engineers...
08-01-2010
National Grid unable to cope with farm expansion as nine new sites get go-ahead - Mail Online
A major expansion of wind farms around the coast has been called into question due to a shortage of engineers and fluctuations in wind levels...
08-01-2010
New wind farm zones are announced - BBC News
Successful bids for nine new offshore wind farm zone licences within UK waters have been announced...
07-01-2010
More wind farms planned offshore - North West Evening Mail
More offshore wind farms are expected to be built in the seas off Barrow. The government is expected to announce new wind farms in the Irish Sea in its Round 3 seabed licensing procedure...
07-01-2010
More offshore wind farms planned for Barrow - Northwest Evening Mail Online
More offshore wind farms are expected to be built in the seas off Barrow...
07-01-2010
SSE brings money to the table at Walney I&II - ReNews Issue 183
Dong Energy has sold a 25.1MW stake in the 367MW Walney I&II offshore project to Scottish & Southern Energy for up to £39m...
07-01-2010
UK offshore is dancing to the Siemans beat - ReNews Issue183
Offshore developers are shuffling contractors and redrawing construction schedules to accommodate the next-generation 3.6MW turbines being rolled out by Siemans at UK projects...
07-01-2010
Dong shuffles its assets deck to spread risk in Northern Europe - ReNews Issue 183
Dong Energy has juggled its holdings in Northern European offshore wind farms. The Danish company has acquired a 25% stake in Centrica's 270MW Lincs scheme off eastern England...
07-01-2010
Ofgem pummels DECC proposals for improving access to the grid - ReNews Issue 183
The UK electricity watchdog has torn into government plans improving connections to the grid, including so-called connect and manage option...
07-01-2010
Round 3 winners let cat out of bag - ReNews Issue 183
Aberdeen's SeaEnergy and Portuguese partner EDP are in line to pick up a Crown Estate Round 3 zone development agreement for the 1.3GW Moray Firth parcal off north-east Scotland...
07-01-2010
Bladt and EEW get foot in the door at London Array - ReNews Issue 183
A joint venture between Bladt Industries and EEW has won the fabrication contract for all 177 monopiles and transition pieces for the 630MW London Array first phase...
07-01-2010
Hole in one on Lincs - ReNews Issue 183
Siemans Transmission and Distribution has been awarded the design and build contract for grid connection at the 270MW Lincs off Skegness...
06-01-2010
Scottish Government approves key transmission line project - ReCharge
The Scottish government has approves the highly controversial Beauly-Denny electrical transmission line, seen by many as critical to the future of Scotland's renewables industry...
06-01-2010
The power, glory controversy - BBC News
First Minister Salmond believes Scotland has hit the energy jackpot for the second time...
06-01-2010
Line needed for green gold rush - BBC News
The rush to generate energy from wind and the sea is the main driver behind the Beauly to Denney line, according to Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE)...
06-01-2010
SeaEnergy JV likely to get wind farm development agreement - IB Times
Portuguese company EDP Renovveis says it expects Moray Offshore Renewables, its joint venture with offshore wind energy company SeaEnergy, to be awarded a zone development agreement in the UK Round 3 Wind Farm Leasing...
06-01-2010
North Devon offshore windfarm decision imminent - North Devon Gazette
A major announcement that cold kick-start the building of the world's largest offshore wind farm off the North Devon coast is expected this week...
05-01-2010
UK offshore wind costs can fall 40 percent - Reuters
New technology and careful choice of sites could slash projected costs for Britain's next round of offshore wind farm project by as much as 40 percent...
05-01-2010
Oil rig-style offshore communities to maintain wind farms - Business Green
Difficulties accessing and maintaining furthest wind farms located 150km offshore are expected to lead to onsite accommodation for maintenance workers...
05-01-2010
Centrica wind farm funding shows liquidity improving - Bloomberg
Centrica Plc's deal to fund U.K offshore wind farms though a stake sale and bank debt may become a blueprint for competitors in the country's £160 billion push to develop sites in deeper and more remote waters...
04-01-2010
Britain generates 39% more electricity from wind turbines - Renewable Energy Focus
The United Kingdom generated 5.5 TWh of electricity from renewable energy in the third quarter (Q3) of 2009, an increase of 25% with Q3 2008...
04-01-2010
Crown Estate to announce £100bn wind energy programme - Reve
3,500 wind turbines would be built across the UK in the next 12 years under the government's renewable energy strategy. The government envisages a third of the UK's energy coming from wind power by 2020...
03-01-2010
Manufacturing sector savages Darling claim that Labour supports green jobs - Guardian Online
EEF says 90% of £2bn earmarked for London Array wind farm is being spent abroad...
03-01-2010
UK set to announce R3 offshore wind victors - ReCharge
The UK government will this week unveil the winners of the Round 3 offshore wind tendering process, kicking off one of the largest and most expensive development pushes the renewables industry has ever seen...
03-01-2010
Gordon Brown unveils £100bn wind farm gamble - Times Online
Gordon Brown will this week launch a £100 billion green power revolution when he awards a raft of development contracts to build a new generation of offshore wind farms...
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