ETI explores Wave Hub for floating turbine

22/02/2012 - The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) is investigating whether it could use Wave Hub, the world’s largest wave energy test site, to accommodate floating offshore wind turbines as part of a demonstration project valued at over £25 million. Plans for the offshore wind floating system demonstration project, which would open up new areas off the coast of the UK and help bring generation costs down, were announced by the ETI in October 2011. The project will see the design, construction and installation of a floating system demonstrator by 2016 at a site with high wind speeds up to about 10 metres per second in water between 60 and 100 metres deep. It will be operated for at least two years to show it can generate high levels of electricity, be maintained without using specially designed vessels and to verify the predicted technical and economic performance.Click here for full story

Atlantis: joint tidal and wind farm

22/02/2012 - A leading tidal power developer has revealed it is in talks to create a new marine energy farm capable of producing both wind and tidal power, in a bid to cut costs and boost the reliability of intermittent green energy technologies. Tim Cornelius, chief executive of Atlantis Resources, told BusinessGreenthat the company is already in talks with suppliers of transmission components, such as cabling and converters, to examine the feasibility of building a combined project from scratch or adding its own tidal turbines onto an existing offshore wind farm.Click here for full story

Drax scraps biomass plans

22/02/2012 - Drax, operator of Britain's largest coal-fired power station, is scrapping plans to build two biomass plants in the UK with Germany's Siemens in a fresh blow to the future of renewable energy. The company blamed a lack of financial help from the government for the decision which involved an investment of around £1.4bn.Click here for full story

Cameron defends wind farms

22/02/2012 - The prime minister has mounted a strong defence of the government's plans to build huge wind farms around the country in the face of strong opposition from his own members of parliament. David Cameron has written to more than 100 of his own backbenchers who published an open letter to the PM asking for subsidies for "inefficient" on-shore wind power to be slashed, and complaining about planning policies putting national energy policies ahead of local objections.Click here for full story

FiT appeal to Supreme Court

22/02/2012 - A DECC spokesperson said: “We respectfully disagree with the Court of Appeal’s decision on Feed-in Tariffs and we have today lodged an application with the Supreme Court seeking that court’s permission to appeal. We are now awaiting a decision of the Supreme Court on permission. We want to see the available funding spread as far and wide as possible making FITs a scheme for the many not a scheme for the few, supporting sustainable jobs in solar and in a whole range of small scale renewables.”Click here for full story

Delays to German offshore programme

22/02/2012 - Construction of Germany’s offshore wind parks will not be on time due to setbacks in connecting turbines to the power grid caused by the problems with ensuring cables and transformer stations, reports Bloomberg. Consequently, EON AG and RWE AG have stressed their intention to suspend investment in wind projects unless obstacles are removed. These delays challenge the government’s plan to install 10 gigawatts of sea-based turbines by the end of this decade.Click here for full story

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New for 2012: 

• All-Energy 2012 will span three interlinked halls.
• For the first time there will be Sector-Specific Trails around the show enabling visitors to pre-plan their route.
• All-Energy 2012 introduces  "Offshore Maintenance – where offshore wind meets oil and gas".
• New feature areas on the show floor include Smart Energy (energy efficiency, energy management, onsite generation & microgeneration) and LCVs (encompassing both infrastructure and vehicles - hydrogen fuelled vehicles have access to HFuel Here).

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