An Innovate UK funded project is to hold a marine moorings master class at London’s Brunel University on 26 January. The event will be hosted by the project partners of STORM (Specialised Thimbles for Offshore Renewable Marine energy), led by Tension Technology International (TTI). The STORM project has designed a [...]

Vestas has installed 20,000 units of its 2MW turbine platform, following the deployment of a V110 machine at a site of MidAmerican Energy’s 2GW Wind XI project in Iowa. The Danish manufacturer said 2MW hardware totalling 38GW has now been installed in 45 countries across six continents. The platform accounts [...]

The Connected Nations 2017 report has today been published by Ofcom, which reveals a huge rise in the availability of fixed line 300Mbps+ “ultrafast broadband” services to 36% of the UK (up from 2% last year). Elsewhere 4% (1.1 million premises) still cannot receive speeds of 10Mbps+ (down from 6%). The [...]

Scottish Renewables has welcomed measures in the government of Scotland’s latest budget to promote renewables and decarbonisation of the economy. The measures include a £60m low-carbon innovation fund and £137m in the next year for energy efficiency and heat decarbonisation. Scottish Renewables chief executive Claire Mack(pictured) said: “It is encouraging that [...]

Fugro Survey India and Danish consultancy Cowi are to carry out a geophysical survey off the coast of Gujarat at the site of a proposed 200MW offshore wind farm demonstration project. The vessel MV Kamrup (pictured) will undertake the work, which will take place in the “coming weeks” near the port of Pipavav [...]

Some 9,000 homes and businesses in the new Tyne and Wear (England) based town of Washington will be the next to benefit from Virgin Media’s £3bn Project Lighting network expansion, which aims to complete its local deployment by the end of 2019. Project Lighting hopes to reach an additional 4 million [...]

Dutch outfit Jumbo has signed a letter of intent with China Merchants Industry Holdings for construction of a new DP2 heavy lift crane vessel for use in offshore energy markets, including renewables. Delivery of the vessel, which has been designed by Ulstein Design and Solutions, is expected in the first [...]

James Fisher and Sons has acquired UK high voltage engineering specialist EDS HV Group for an initial consideration of £9m in cash. A further payment of up to £5.6m will also be paid, subject to profit targets for the two years ending 30 September 2019. EDS provides a range of [...]

Openreach has started an unexpected third UK ISP trial of their long in the making Single Order Generic Ethernet Access (SOGEA) product, which will allow consumers to buy a standalone “fibre broadband” (FTTC VDSL2 or G.fast) line without the voice (phone) service. Back in October we noted that the Phase 2 trial [...]

MHI Vestas Offshore Wind and Esvagt will today officially namethe  Esvagt Mercator service operations vessel ahead of support work on the 165MW each Belwind 1 and 2  offshore wind farms off the coast of Belgium. The turbine manufacturer has a 10-year lease agreement for the 58-metre vessel, which will operate [...]

OSB and Bladt have secured additional orders for the supply of transition pieces to Orsted for the 1.2GW Hornsea 1 wind farm off east England. Orsted has confirmed that OSB will fabricate a further 30 units for the project on top of an existing order for 56 structures. Bladt is [...]

The boss of rural ISP B4RN, which is rolling out a 1Gbps community-built and funded fibre optic (FTTH) broadband network to homes in Lancashire, Cumbria, Yorkshire, Norfolk and Suffolk, has warned that the UK Gov’s proposed 10Mbps USO may force them to “retrench within our current boundaries.” B4RN has been a wonderful [...]