Vessels NKT Victoria and Havila Phoenix are carrying out laying and trenching operations. Subsea cable laying and trenching works have started at the 950MW Moray East offshore wind project off the coast of Scotland. The wind project, being developed by a consortium led by EDPR, features three offshore substation platforms [...]

Bureau supported the Changhua Offshore Wind Farm development with the provision of inspectors which assisted in the successful completion of the manufacturing of 84 pin piles off the coast of Taiwan. Each pin pile manufactured has a diameter of 3m, a maximum length of 82m, and maximum weight of 310 [...]

North Sea project also set to use single HVAC substation to export power to shore. ScottishPower Renewables has asked for permission from the UK government to allow its fully consented 1400MW East Anglia 3 offshore wind farm to use larger turbines. Existing consents awarded to the project in 2017 allow [...]

In Brazil, the installed power of wind energy reached 14.71 GW, with 583 wind farms and more than 7 thousand wind turbines in 12 states. Wind energy is advancing in Brazil and now represents 9% of the energy matrix the state of Ceará, northeast, ended 2018 with 2,050.5 MW of [...]

The ‘highest quarterly figure on record’ was achieved while the share of fossil fuels dropped to 33%, according to a new report. Renewable energy broke another record for the European electricity mix in the first quarter of 2020, reaching a 40% share, the highest quarterly figure on record. That’s according to the [...]

Investors give greenlight to $35bn worth of projects worldwide in first half of 2020. Global offshore wind investment more than quadrupled in the first half of the year even as the coronavirus pandemic triggered an unprecedented economic shock. A report has found that investors gave the greenlight to 28 new offshore [...]

Today marks the 10th birthday of Bureau UK. Since our set-up back in 2010, year on year the business has gone from strength to strength, the business moved into its first premises in Hull City Centre in July 2010 with a team of just 2. Through hard work and determination, [...]

RenewableUK calculates next year’s CfDs can secure 11GW of new on and offshore wind if caps are lifted. Analysis by RenewableUK suggests that if the UK Government lifts capacity caps from the next round of contracts for difference the clean energy sector can secure over £20bn (€22bn) of investment. The [...]

Bureau was the sole supplier of inspection personnel to the Moray East Wind Farm off the coast of Scotland where we mobilised a team of multi-disciplined inspection workforce across multiple sites covering Welding, NDT & Coating fabrication activities along with Project Management and documentation translation services. The Moray East Offshore [...]

Ports have potential to ‘become renewable hubs’ Ports can play a “pivotal role” in supporting decarbonisation by becoming renewable energy hubs, a new study by DNV GL has found. ‘Ports: gateways to Europe – 10 Transitions to turn ports into decarbonization hubs’ found that growth in offshore wind and the enforcements needed to [...]

Bureau was the sole supplier to the Nordsee One project, where we were responsible for the direct mobilisation of multi-disciplined inspectors across the UK and Europe (Germany, Poland, Norway, Croatia, Denmark, Slovenia, Netherlands and Spain) Covering multiple work scopes during manufacturing and pre-assembly, our inspectors provided surveillance across several packages [...]

Equinor has announced the first phase of its H2H Saltend project, which will be located at Saltend Chemicals Park near Hull. The initial phase will feature a 600MW auto-thermal reformer (ATER) that will use CCUS technology to convert natural gas into “blue hydrogen”. According to Equinor, this would be the [...]