To alert you that the second round of the DECC and Technology Strategy Board’s Offshore Wind Component Technologies Development and Demonstration scheme opens tomorrow (10th May). This was...
A body formed to help start up business ventures get off the ground is marking its 30th birthday today and is poised to work on a major national project to help entrepreneurs secure bank...
Momentum is building to promote the region to potential investors as a big wind project is expected to move forward later this year. A programme to cultivate what has been dubbed the East of England...
Lowestoft based OrbisEnergy, the Suffolk’s flagship hub for offshore renewable energy, has been recognised as part of the top 100 green businesses in Suffolk. The Anglian Business Green 100 is...
Offshore renewable energy was firmly under the international spotlight last week as Energy Ministers from 23 of the world’s leading economies gathered in London to discuss accelerating the...
Areva SA plans to take a share of the UK’s offshore wind market, reported Bloomberg. The company is talking with customers across Europe and has more projects in addition to those announced in...
NWES has recently awarded funding from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) to support its “From Hub to Spokes” Programme. The programme is an innovative low carbon business...
Two senior business leaders have endorsed the development of the New Anglia Enterprise Zone on a visit to the region. Diana Brightmore-Armour and Stewart Gilliland visited Lowestoft in their...
The Government will launch its first marine industries showcase at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) today to highlight the industry’s multi-billion pound contribution to...
The Windcat 28, an 18 metre long aluminium catamaran, fresh from Kuipers Woudsend shipyard in the Netherlands is about to head to Greater Gabbard wind farm off the coast of eastern England, North...
Government has today launched its eagerly awaited £20 million Marine Energy Array Demonstrator scheme (MEAD). This scheme will support up to 2 pre-commercial projects to demonstrate the...
We can announce the dates of our third series of UK supply chain events for the offshore wind industry. Five events, being hosted with partners across the country, will bring together key industry...
On November 1st, 2011 Marubeni Corporation acquired a 49.9% stake in DONG Energy's 172MW Gunfleet Sands offshore wind energy farm, with arrangements for the project financing of Marubeni's equity...
East Anglia Offshore Wind has revealed more info on one of the world’s largest offshore wind farms to be constructed off Suffolk coast. Joint venture between ScottishPower Renewables (SPR) and...
A world first in commissioned art has been unveiled at a landmark building in Lowestoft. Two studies, produced by Norfolk watercolourist John Hurst are on display at the renewable energy hub...
Measures to strengthen supply chains and reduce the burden of regulation were announced by the Business Secretary Vince Cable today. Speaking at the Federation of Small Businesses conference...
Successful Great Yarmouth firm Seajacks which provides jack-up vessels for the offshore energy industry has been bought by two Japanese firms. The deal - for an undisclosed sum - will see ownership...
The new Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft Local Enterprise Zone has been attracting interest from businesses and potential investors from around the world, including China, South Korea and...
Mansell has won a contract worth £2.6 million with Scira Offshore Energy Ltd to build new facilities providing support for Sheringham Shoal offshore wind farm. The development at Egmere,...
Proposals to widen business access to new and alternative sources of finance have been published today by the independent Taskforce on non-bank lending. The Taskforce, chaired by Tim Breedon,...
UK on-site generation specialist Wind Direct has reached ‘financial close’, including arranging funding, for a two-turbine project at Roy Humphrey Group on the A140 near Eye,...
A stalwart vessel of the Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm fleet has left the Greater Wash after reaching another project milestone, the completion of the undersea works to prepare the site for the...
National opportunities totalling more than £271bn for Norfolk and Suffolk's energy supply chain have been mapped out in a new report commissioned by the Norfolk and Suffolk Energy...
The Marine Energy: Supporting Array Technologies competition opened for applications yesterday, 5th March, to proposals for collaborative R&D projects that solve common technical...
Sit in a bar in the region for long enough and you will hear complaints that local people are missing out on the energy riches with foreign companies taking jobs and profit. Yes, foreign companies...
A council looks set to abandon its opposition to 28km of buried cables to serve a £1.5bn offshore windfarm - despite opponents branding it a “sad day for democracy”. Last month,...
The potential energy boom will bring opportunities for businesses. In the third part of a special series on the region’s energy sector, Annabelle Dickson looks at why developing and promoting...
Business leaders from across East Anglia were today invited to have their say on how the region’s economy can be made “greener”. The New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP)...
With many business opportunities in the energy sector on the horizon more pressure is going to be piled on an industry already bemoaning a lack of skills. Annabelle Dickson finds out what the...
Beneath and far beyond the shores of the Norfolk and Suffolk coast, often beyond sight, is billions of pounds of riches and an energy mix which some say will be a vital part of our energy security in...
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...
North Norfolk District Council (NNDC) rejected the plans to place offshore wind farm power cables throughout the countryside and now a fine of £100,000 might be imposed on the Council in case...
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,...
The government should increase support for wave and tidal power to preserve the UK's global leadership, say MPs. The Energy and Climate Change Committee says the UK had in the past lost its early...
Campaigners fear for the future of local democracy after a Norfolk council admitted it could be priced out of fighting an appeal that holds the key to a huge offshore windfarm plan. North Norfolk...
Pioneering green and low-carbon businesses across Norfolk and Suffolk are to be showcased in a manifesto to ministers detailing action needed to spark the green economy. The counties are set to lead...