UK Approves Five Subsea Power Cable Projects
to each country.The new projects are all expected to be complete and operational by the end of 2032, Ofgem said.National Grid's participation in the OHA projects is conditional on a final investment decision, the company said in a separate statement.(Reuters - Reporting by Nora Buli; editing by Nina Chestney
Floating Wind Power Gains Traction But Can It Set Sail?
offshore sites, install them and connect the turbines to the onshore power grid. "Even the largest vessels from the oil and gas industry have limited capacity for efficient installation of the latest floating wind farms," said DNV. ($1 = 0.8036 pounds) (Reuters - Reporting by Nina Chestney and Susanna Twidale; Additional reporting by Charlie Devreux in Madrid, Yuka Obayashi in Tokyo, Heekyong Yang in Seoul, Nichola Groom in Los Angeles; Editing by Veronica Brown and David Clarke)'World's Largest': First Power Produced from Equinor's Hywind Tampen Floating Wind Far
Scotland Unveils $78 Mln Fund to Support Energy Sector
sector diversifies," Scotland's economy secretary Fiona Hyslop said.The energy industry in Scotland is made up of exploration, development, production and supply of hydrocarbon and renewable technologies and contributes to Britain's security of supply.($1 = 0.7943 pounds)(Reporting by Nina Chestney. Editing by Jane Merriman
Beatrice Offshore Wind Farm Produces First Power
wind farm will be completed in spring 2019. It will have capacity of nearly 600 MW and be capable of supplying around 450,000 homes with power.Beatrice Offshore Windfarm Ltd is a joint venture between SSE, Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners and Red Rock Power Ltd.($1 = 0.7693 pounds)(Reporting by Nina Chestney; Editing by Dale Hudson
Well Drilling at Fogelberg Gas Discovery to Start in Feb/March
2010 and is estimated to hold around 60 million barrels of oil equivalent. Production is scheduled to start in 2021. Centrica Norway is the operator for the Fogelberg licence with an ownership share of 50 percent. Faroe Petroleum and DEA Norge each have a 25 percent share. (Reporting by Nina Chestney; Editing by Susan Fenton
Giant Iceberg Breaks off Antarctica
regrow, or may suffer further calving events which may eventually lead to collapse – opinions in the scientific community are divided," Luckman said. "Our models say it will be less stable, but any future collapse remains years or decades away." (By Nina Chestney; Editing by Toby Chopra
Wind Power's Big Bet: Colossal Turbines
by 2023. "Cost reductions and power prices will have to be consistently much higher than our predictions for the subsidy free projects to break even," they said. (Reporting by Stine Jacobsen and Vera Eckert; Additional reporting by Karolin Schaps, Susanna Twidale, Nina Chestney and Alissa de Carbonnel; Editing by Tom Pfeiffer and Pravin Char
Statoil to Decide on Scottish Floating Wind Farm in September
, world leader in offshore wind power, however, is not rushing to embrace the immature technology. "Right now we are focused on fixed wind," vice president and head of asset management Benjamin Sykes told Reuters in June. (Reporting by Nerijus Adomaitis, additional reporting by Nina Chestney, editing by Geert De Clercq and David Evans
February 2025
