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.
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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.
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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...
“Generational change”, as much as losses, spins turbine boss out of the door
Jochen Eickholt, pictured, head of turbine maker-in-a-spin Siemens Gamesa, is to quit both his post and the company this summer, the victim of restructuring...
Iberdrola commissions 493MW St-Brieuc as France’s second off-shore wind farm
Britanny, France’s province abutting the Atlantic & the English Channel, has this week seen initial power flows from the region’s first offshore wind farm,...
Ørsted to pump Hornsea 3 juice into 600MWh battery near Norwich
Wind power developers Ørsted are committing to store electricity from their 1.2GW Hornsea 3 marine farm next to a substation at Swardeston, near Norwich
The...
Turbine maker Siemens Gamesa faces Hull workers’ strike ballot over pay
Around 300 Siemens Gamesa workers in the firm's Hull wind turbine factory are being balloted for strike action over pay, the UK’s biggest union...
Spinning quicker at sea: Crown Estate primes investment pump for suppliers
The UK’s offshore wind industry is set to benefit from increased early investment in its supplier companies, thanks to a move by the state...
Report shows floating wind could be the UK’s industrial opportunity of the century
A new report by the joint Government-industry Floating Offshore Wind Taskforce shows that floating wind could be this century’s biggest British industrial success story...