Dogger Bank 4 offered Birkhill Wood as connection point

Developers of Dogger Bank, the world’s biggest offshore wind farm at 3.6GW, have received a grid connection location for the venture's fourth phase. National Grid...

Boom-free summer for bomb squad, defusing mines across offshore turbine site

Making safe unexploded World War II mines lingering under the North Sea across an imminent wind farm plot is the business of specialist contractors...

Labour to boost floating wind & revoke Sunak’s North Sea licences

Senior Labour figures today backed floating wind farms off Britain’s coasts as essential to delivering the party’s policy on clean energy. Sir Kier Starmer &...

Weather makers: offshore promoters eye fair winds for supply chain

Wind energy representatives & the government agencies who licence turbines moored in or floating above Britain’s briny have unveiled details of how to triple...

World’s biggest floating wind farm approved for off Aberdeen

Green Volt, at 560MW expected by 2029 to be the world’s largest collection of floating wind turbines, bobbed up today with planners’ final blessings. A...

Octopus takes stake in disruptor of floating turbine tech

Wind farms soon to float on the globe’s oceans and lakes are set to get cheaper and faster to build, following an investment today...

Non-ill wind blows jobseekers some good: DWP & Crown Estate puff offshore recruitment

Ten Jobcentres in East Anglia and Lincolnshire are to be hubs for boosting awareness of skilled roles in Britain’s booming offshore wind power industry,...

Balmoral Comtec scoops contract for Hornsea 3’s 400 cable protectors

Aberdeen-based Balmoral Comtec has won a contract of undisclosed value to supply 400 cable protection systems to Ørsted for its Hornsea 3 project, located...

Vood you believe it? Germany debuts world’s first lumber-sourced turbine blades

The sustainability of materials used to generate electricity through wind power took a step forward today, as a German manufacturer announced a prototype turbine...