For its third consecutive year, Hywind Scotland – the world’s first floating offshore wind farm – reached the highest average capacity factor for any wind farm in the UK, Equinor said today.
The past decade has been a tough one for Scotland’s offshore wind sector.
A Dundee firm will add 20 staff this year after securing a major wind turbine contract.
The first turbine components for a controversial onshore wind farm in the north of Scotland have arrived on site.
Companies from Aberdeen and Lewis have teamed up to reduce underwater inspection and survey costs.
Fostering research and innovation will be key if floating offshore wind is to become competitive in the coming decades.
A public consultation has been launched on plans to build an onshore wind farm in the north-east.
Offshore wind is fast becoming the hottest industry to be if you’re an aspiring low carbon energy apprentice looking for adventure.
UK Government has launched a new initiative with the aim of supporting the creation of a domestic renewables supply chain.
The potential for subsea companies to benefit from the forecasted floating offshore wind boom will be explored in a three-part webinar series starting next week.
“It gives me a bit more confidence”, says Wood graduate Sebastian Eunson, “working for a company that is investing in different industries”.
Three of the north-east’s top oil and gas industry training providers share their insights on the challenges created by the Covid-19 pandemic and energy transition with emeritus editor Jeremy Cresswell.
Tributes have been paid to Ian Bonnon, founder and chairman of Offshore Wind Consultants (OWC), after the company confirmed he died earlier this week.
EDF Renewables will break ground next week on its new onshore wind farm in Scotland’s central belt.
Renewable infrastructure fund Greencoat UK Wind has said it would raise £198 million through a placing of new shares announced on February 12.
Gloucester-based investment manager Blackfinch Group has snapped up two wind-farm sites in Aberdeenshire for an undisclosed sum.
Equinor has reached a deal to sell its stakes in the Bakken field, onshore US, to Grayson Mill Energy, backed by EnCap Investments, for $900 million.
Of all the things the UK is internationally renowned for, good and reliable weather certainly isn’t one of them.
Oil majors agreed to pay a hefty premium to develop the next generation of major British offshore wind farms after BP Plc and Total SE won contracts in an auction ahead of many of the utilities that have dominated the space until now.
West of Shetland operators are working with “serious intent” to get huge new oil projects “to a net zero outcome”, according to the head of a major clean energy scheme on the islands.
Floating offshore wind could become “subsidy-free” in the UK by the early 2030s, according to a new study.
A newly formed floating offshore wind company is planning to submit a bid for the ScotWind leasing round.
Global Energy Group (GEG) has secured backing of up to £8.3million from development agency Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) for a £19m project to extend the quayside at its Port of Nigg facility.
Global Energy Group (GEG) has gone into partnership with Italian company Rosetti Marino to deliver large-scale renewable energy and net-zero projects around the UK.
SSE Renewables has installed the first completed turbine at its Gordonbush Extension in the Highlands.