21 May 2024
As of the 14th of May, a joint partnership titled “Salamander” between Ørsted, Simply Blue Group and Subsea7, submitted an offshore consent application for its proposed 100 MW floating offshore wind farm. The project was a successful Innovation bidder in Crown Estate Scotland’s Innovation and Targeted Oil and Gas (INTOG) leasing round in May 2023 […]
21 May 2024
The Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Eamon Ryan, has published Ireland’s first spatial plan for renewable energy at sea, the draft South Coast Designated Maritime Area Plan (DMAP). This plan identifies four maritime areas off the south coast for offshore renewable energy (ORE) development over the next decade. An independent economic analysis accompanying […]
14 May 2024
In 2023, Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult conducted a survey for Crown Estate Scotland to gather insights from wave and tidal energy developers. The survey was issued to 29 organisations of which 26 replied, 10 wave and 16 tidal of which 3 were project developers. It asked recipients to declare their existing deployed capacity, their […]
30 Apr 2024
The world’s biggest floating wind farm has been given the go-ahead off the Aberdeen coast. The £3 billion floating offshore wind project from developers Flotation Energy and Vårgrønn has been granted offshore planning approval. The project titled Green Volt, has now received all its planning approvals and remains on track to be the first commercial-scale […]
02 Apr 2024
Scotland’s First Minister, the Rt Hon. Humza Yousaf MSP officially opened the world’s first dedicated innovation centre for floating offshore wind on the 18th March. In Aberdeen’s Energy Transition Zone, ORE Catapult’s £9 million National Floating Wind Innovation Centre (FLOWIC), delivered in collaboration with ETZ Limited, has been designed to help the development of floating […]
26 Mar 2024
The Welsh Government has granted TotalEnergies and Simply Blue Group consent for Wales’ first floating windfarm located 40km off the coast of Pembrokeshire. The windfarm will be become the largest of its kind in the UK. Project Erebus will house 7 next-generation 14MW turbines on floating platforms, providing enough low carbon energy to power 93,000 […]
19 Mar 2024
Britain’s flagship renewables scheme has received its biggest ever funding boost from government, with more than £1 billion for its upcoming auction. The budget for the sixth Contracts for Difference (CfD) allocation round (AR6) was announced by the Chancellor at the March 2024 budget. This follows the increase in the maximum price for offshore wind and floating […]
12 Mar 2024
Experts from across the UK met for the first time in Cardiff as part of the new Severn Estuary Commission to re-examine the potential for a world leading tidal energy scheme in the area. Alongside this, the commission will be publishing a new report from the consultants WSP explaining why there is now a case […]
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