Posts Tagged ‘UK’

UK, NORTH-EAST group helps seal deal for £25m turbine site

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

A NORTH-EAST law firm has helped to ensure the region becomes home to a £25m green energy factory, which will make the world’s biggest turbine blades and could create 3,000 jobs.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown last week unveiled plans for the Neptune Blade facility, on the riverside at Walker, Newcastle. It will be the first factory in the UK to build offshore turbines.

The project, by Clipper Windpower, based in the US, is expected to be completed this year, creating 500 jobs on Tyneside and thousands more in the supply chain.

http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk

Mitsubishi to invest $150m in UK offshore turbine project

Monday, March 1st, 2010

Japanese engineering giant Mitsubishi has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the UK government to invest up to £100m ($153m) in an R&D project to build an offshore wind turbine prototype.

http://www.rechargenews.com/energy/wind/article207032.ece

Nine offshore wind zones within UK

Monday, January 11th, 2010

All parties have now signed exclusive Zone Development Agreements with The Crown Estate. The developers who have signed exclusivity zone agreements are:

Moray Firth Zone, Moray Offshore Renewables Ltd which is 75 percent owned by EDP Renovaveis and 25 percent owned by SeaEnergy Renewables – 1.3 GW
Firth of Forth Zone, SeaGreen Wind Energy Ltd equally owned by SSE Renewables and Fluor – 3.5 GW
Dogger Bank Zone, the Forewind Consortium equally owned by each of SSE Renewables, RWE Npower Renewables, Statoil and Statkraft – 9 GW
Hornsea Zone, Siemens Project Ventures and Mainstream Renewable Power, a consortium equally owned by Mainstream Renewable Power and Siemens Project Ventures and involving Hochtief Construction – 4 GW
Norfolk Bank Zone, East Anglia Offshore Wind Ltd equally owned by Scottish Power Renewables and Vattenfall Vindkraft – 7.2 GW
Hastings Zone, Eon Climate and Renewables UK – 0.6 GW
West of Isle of Wight Zone, Eneco New Energy – 0.9 GW
Bristol Channel Zone, RWE Npower Renewables, the UK subsidiary of RWE Innogy – 1.5 GW
Irish Sea Zone, Centrica Renewable Energy and involving RES Group – 4.2 GW