The Carbon Trust Offshore Wind Accelerator has announced the winners of its latest innovation competition to find novel methods to inspect offshore wind substructures. The OWA competition targeted companies with new or adaptable techniques for inspection of offshore wind foundations. Entries were sought to address the four specific challenges: weld inspection for monopile [...]

Newspaper reports have claimed that Openreach (BT) will next week announce a boost to their existing roll-out of “full fibre” (FTTP) ultrafast broadband services, which could see their current roll-out target of 2 million premises being increased to 3 million within the next two years. At present the operator’s roll-out of Gigabit [...]

The first 25 blades for Senvion 3.0M122 turbines have arrived in Chile for the 129MW Aurora wind farm. The blades were manufactured by Senvion company RIABlades and shipped from Portugal to the port of Puerto Montt. Unloading took place between 31 December and 8 January and the blades will be [...]

Guangdong Province in southern China plans to start construction of more than 10 offshore wind farms with total capacity of 3.65MW this year, according to Chinese state news agency Xinhua. The agency reported province governor Ma Xingrui as saying the projects are part of Guangdong's efforts to improve the energy [...]

Fibre optic network developer Cityfibre has today announced that Milton Keynes will be the first of several cities to benefit from their large-scale rollout of a 1Gbps FTTH “full fibre” ultrafast broadband network with Vodafone, which will initially aim to cover 1 million UK homes. A few months ago Cityfibre announced that it had raised an [...]

Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy has signed two contracts for turbines totalling 96MW with Chinese utility Datang and China General Nuclear Power Group (CGN). The deal with Datang is for the supply and commissioning of 24 G114-2.0MW machines for the 48MW Yangshugou wind farm in China’s Liaoning province. The agreement with CGN [...]

A new article has once again highlighted Virgin Media UK’s practice of charging hefty contract exit fees, which specifically relates to situations where customers move house into an area that exists outside of the operator’s current broadband ISP and TV network coverage. At present the operator’s cable broadband and TV network is [...]

Lincoln Clean Energy has closed financing for the 300MW Tahoka wind farm in Texas from Morgan Stanley and BHE Renewables, a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Energy Company. The project, which is located in Lynn County, will receive construction and term financing from Morgan Stanley and long-term tax equity from BHE [...]

Crown Estate Scotland is to lead an Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult initiative to examine the potential economic benefits of more floating offshore wind farms in UK waters. The study will look at a variety of scenarios based on different scales of development and potential UK content, the impact of government [...]

Customers taking part in BT’s trial of the new ‘up to’ 330Mbps capable G.fast broadband technology, which aims to cover 10 million premises across the United Kingdom by the end of 2020, look set to receive a new SmartHub X wireless router that integrates the G.fast modem inside. Previously those taking [...]

EnBW has generated first power to the grid from its 19.8MW Freckenfeld wind farm in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Two Nordex N131 3.3MW machines started trial operations in late December and are expected to enter full commercial operations later this month, the company said. The remaining four N131 turbines, all with 134-metre hub heights and 131-metre [...]

Avangrid Renewables has started commercial operations at the 30MW Deerfield wind farm in Vermont. The project, which is located on US Forest Service land near the towns of Readsboro and Searsburg, features 15 Siemens Gamesa turbines. Avangrid will own and operate the wind farm and sell the electricity generated to Green Mountain [...]