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GENERATE Supply Chain reaches 2,500 registrations
The GENERATE Supply Chain database has reached a major milestone, with 2,500 businesses now registered
Seatrium ORS Breaks Ground on Landmark Lowestoft Hub
The investment strengthens Seatrium ORS’ operational capability as demand grows for offshore project delivery, hook-up, commissioning, logistics and lifecycle support services throughout the offshore wind sector.
Great Yarmouth Unveils Ambitious Strategic Vision for South Denes
An ambitious new vision for one of the country’s most significant coastal employment areas
Planning consent granted for Five Estuaries Offshore Wind Farm
The UK Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero has granted a Development Consent Order (DCO) for the Five Estuaries Offshore Wind Farm
ABP and ScottishPower Renewables sign landmark agreement to support offshore wind operations from Port of Lowestoft
Associated British Ports (ABP) has announced a long-term partnership with ScottishPower Renewables (SPR) to support operations and maintenance (O&M) activities
GENERATE Supply Chain goes LIVE
Now’s the time to register with GENERATE Supply Chain – bringing enhanced visibility to the region’s energy landscape
Peel Ports advances Great Yarmouth expansion plans
The Port of Great Yarmouth is set for a major upgrade, with Peel Ports advancing plans to build a new deep-water Southern Terminal at its Outer Harbour.
UK government confirms FID in Sizewell C
UK Energy Secretary Ed Miliband has signed the final investment (FID) for Sizewell C (SZC) in Suffolk
New jobs and major investment in Powerpark, Lowestoft
Jobs, opportunities and major investment in Britain’s most easterly town, Lowestoft, is ensuring it is “leading the way” as a powerhouse for the clean energy industry within the East of England. In September 2020, GENERATE partner, East Suffolk Council unveiled an “ambitious” vision for PowerPark to “create a cluster of energy related businesses which build upon the success of existing…
ScottishPower confirms Lowestoft as long-term home for UK offshore wind
Green energy company ScottishPower Renewables has confirmed Lowestoft as the long-term home and heart of its UK offshore wind operations
Opportunities in US Offshore Wind Seminar
Charles Macdowell from Virginia Beach Economic Development kicked of the US Offshore Wind Seminar at OrbisEnergy, on Friday 3rd December. We also heard from 4C Offshore Limited’s Dr James Bernthal-Hooker who provided insight into the US offshore wind outlook. This was followed by Seajacks‘ John Palmer – an incredibly successful business headquartered in Great Yarmouth, who have built their…
Norfolk & Suffolk All Energy Industry Council
An inspiring Norfolk & Suffolk All Energy Industry Council (AEIC) meeting held on Monday 6th Dec led by New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership and chaired by Mark Goodall, demonstrating first hand the region’s incredible energy sector. With project updates from Hydrogen East (Michael Brown) and a look at Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult’s (Andrew Holyland) New Anglia Fit4 Offshore Renewables programme…
GENERATE launches at Global Offshore Wind 2021
Politicians and developers showed their support for the East of England at Global Offshore Wind 2021 GENERATE, a pioneering partnership of East of England businesses and political leaders created to champion and showcase the region’s energy investment opportunities and capabilities launched at Global Offshore Wind last week. In partnership with East of England Energy Group…
Consortium looking into the design of a permanently stationed Offshore Charging Vessel.
A consortium of offshore renewable energy and marine companies are exploring the viability of developing an offshore charging facility for electrified vessels. Read more here
CWind and Rovco complete ROV project at East Anglia ONE offshore windfarm
CWind has completed this year’s campaign at the East Anglia One offshore wind farm in the UK. Full story here
Ambitious Wind Power announcements welcomed by Industry Leaders
The sector reacts positively to Boris Johnson’s £160m boost for the UK offshore wind industry. Read Industry response to here
East Anglia as a UK Hydrogen cluster?
Hydrogen production has been named as one of three industries still in their infancy that the UK’s future energy system will be heavily reliant on. Hydrogen East is one of, a number of new business initiatives, that seek to raise awareness of hydrogen opportunities across East Anglia and to promote the technology and develop local…
Great Yarmouth Port to Get Offshore Energy O&M Campus
Norfolk County Council (NCC) have recently announced £6 million of funding to deliver an offshore energy Operations and Maintenance (O&M) campus at the Port of Great Yarmouth. The Project aim to establish a excellence, an Operations and Maintenance (O&M) campus – or Multi-User Energy Sector Facility – on the southern peninsula of Great Yarmouth Port…
Bid for £29m clean energy research programme in East Anglia passes key milestone.
A £29m research and innovation programme over 5 years led by UEA focussed on the Southern North Sea and the region’s clean energy and marine sectors has passed it’s first key milestone. ‘Suffolk & Norfolk Research & Innovation on the Sustainable Energy Coast’, or ‘SuNRISE Coast’ for short, will further enhance East Anglia as a…
In pole position for offshore wind
New research conducted by offshore wind market intelligence specialists, 4C Offshore, has concluded that the East of England Energy Zone (EEEZ) continues to be the UK’s largest offshore wind cluster and will remain in pole position as the sector ramps up to meet the UK government’s refreshed target of 40Gw of offshore wind by 2030.