Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Thursday that the government has secured more than £24 billion of private investment in domestic clean energy projects ahead of next week’s investment summit.
Offshore engineering and technology company, Osbit Ltd, have secured terms to introduce their new access system.
The noise caused by building wind farms may make fish more vulnerable to predators, a study suggests.
Dong Energy is to construct the world's biggest wind farm, 12 miles off the UK's west coast and investing more than £10million in the project.
Councillors are being asked to relax a planning restriction surrounding a massive 186-turbine offshore windfarm. Moray Offshore Renewables Ltd (MORL) won planning permission from the Scottish Government to construct 186 turbines 14 miles from the Caithness coast last year. Members of Aberdeenshire Council then approved two electricity substations near New Deer to support the scheme. Approval was granted on the condition that MORL provided council officers with information on how 20 miles of underground cabling would impact on roads and the environment.
Norwegian energy firms Statoil and Statkraft have bought a wind farm project off the coast of Norfolk.
Developers of an offshore wind farm off the coast of East Anglia have hired in a new installation vessel to help reduce delays on the project.
AN EXHIBITION in Inverness yesterday on the proposed major offshore wind farm in the Moray Firth received a positive response, said developers.
With governments and industries around the world working to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, the clean energy sector is experiencing a boom.
DANISH utility group DONG Energy has diluted its holding in the Walney offshore wind farm, by selling 24.8% of the project to a consortium featuring Dutch Ampere Equity Fund and PGGM for £16million.
TODAY, there are just three wind turbines in the sea off the American coastline, but that is about to change with the US federal government's approval of an array of 130 machines to be located off the eastern seaboard at Cape Cod. After years of battling, Cape Wind at last has the green light for construction to start shortly on Horseshoe Shoal in Nantucket Sound, off the coast of Massachusetts.