Trio of contracts awarded for 1GW Buchan floating wind project
The developers of the Buchan offshore wind project have awarded a suite of new contracts worth more than £1.5m to a trio of Scottish businesses.
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£95m Barclays loan helps carry Moray West to financial close
Barclays has confirmed a loan of £95.5 million to the developers of the Moray West offshore wind farm, offering a hedge against inflation and changing interest rates.
Seaway 7 wins major contract for East Anglia Three – world’s second largest windfarm
The deal, worth between $500m - $750m, is to be carried out from the Seaway 7 Aberdeen and Sutton offices.
Kent wins contract for work on BP offshore wind farms
Engineering giant Kent has won a contract to support the development of two BP (LON: BP) offshore wind farms in Irish Sea.
UK wind farms drive record £443m profit for Crown Estate
Offshore wind is driving profits at the Crown Estate, the property company that supports the country's monarchy.
Exclusive: ETZ Ltd enters £1.5m joint venture to expand Aberdeen ‘wind campus’
The partners claim the investment in the W-Zero-2 building - formerly 1 Minto Drive - will trigger much needed revitalisation of the 2000 square meter brownfield property.
Offshore wind ‘sea change’ needed if UK is to slash project timelines
A major transformation of the offshore wind industry needs to happen if the UK is going to get close to its deployment goals.
UK done ‘whole world a favour’ by bringing down cost of offshore wind
Tim Pick commended the UK offshore wind industry for its steady cost reductions during an event in Aberdeen on Tuesday.
Crown Estate Scotland names new chair
Crown Estate Scotland, the body which manages seabed rights for offshore renewables, has announced Euan McVicar as its new chair.
Gas shortfall drives surge in profits for Hywind Scotland wind farm
Profits from Equinor’s (OSLO: EQNR) Hywind Scotland scheme surged last year as legacy renewables projects unintentionally gained from Europe’s gas crisis.
CCS, offshore wind deadlock broken as BP removes objection to Orsted project
Energy giants BP (LON: BP) and Orsted (CPH: ORSTED) have made a major breakthrough in a dispute over a patch of land in the Southern North Sea.
World’s largest wind jack-up arrives in UK for work on largest wind farm
Voltaire - the world’s largest offshore jack-up installation vessel – has arrived in the UK to begin work at the Dogger Bank offshore wind farm.
Survey works continue at MachairWind off the coast of Argyll
Metocean surveys are now underway in the area of ScottishPower Renewables’ MachairWind offshore windfarm, off the coast of Argyll.
Minister calls for urgent action on grid for Scottish wind farms
Gillian Martin said offshore wind is “the greatest economic opportunity of recent times”.
UK offshore wind needs to attract 70,000 workers by 2030
A new OWIC report has set out that the UK offshore wind sector is expected to have in excess of 100,000 workers by the end of the decade.
SSEN Transmission to invest £10 bn to support offshore wind in Scotland
Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) Transmission has announced £10 billion of investment to support offshore wind in Scotland.
Arrival of nacelles moves Neart na Gaoithe wind farm closer to finish line
Another milestone has been reached at the Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) offshore wind farm with the arrival of the first nacelles.
The elephant in the room: offshore wind must face its challenges
Paul Cook, Vice President, Renewables at Proserv explains how an industry workshop in London brought stakeholders together to spur fundamental change around cable assets and to initiate a path towards best practice standards.
Vestas wins 49 turbine order for Scottish wind farm
Danish turbine manufacturer Vestas will supply units for an onshore wind farm in the south of Scotland.
‘A real commitment to Scotland’: Leith works lay path for BP’s Morven wind project
Morven is a 2.9GW ScotWind project set to be built in the E1 lease area, around 40 miles off the coast of Aberdeen.
Flotation Energy looks to the next set of giant UK floating wind farms
Flotation talks up Cenos and Green Volt; its next towering North Sea floating wind projects, and how it intends to ensure UK ports are involved.
When it comes to platform electrification, it’s different courses for different horses
Adapting North Sea platforms to run on green power is, to borrow a previously used analogy, the industry’s equivalent of open heart surgery.
‘Is there a bigger growth opportunity for the UK?’: NSTA on £200bn North Sea investment target
Stuart Payne, CEO of the NSTA, talks North Sea investment, whether electrification will hit the emissions mark, and inspiration from Teddy Roosevelt.
SSE hits 100th turbine milestone at Seagreen
Construction of the Seagreen wind project is nearing completion, passing the century mark this week.
Kincardine wind turbine taken to Rotterdam for maintenance
Aberdeen firms will carry out repairs offshore at the Kincardine wind project in future, says director, rather than head to Rotterdam.