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Consent for Vattenfall’s Norfolk Vanguard Wind Farm
GENERATE welcomes the recent announcement that Vattenfall’s Norfolk Vanguard wind farm has been given development consent, by Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), Kwasi Kwarteng. This comes just weeks after it’s sister project Boreas was also granted consent, both Norfolk Boreas and Norfolk Vanguard will generate up to 1.8GW providing nearly…
Consent awarded for Norfolk Boreas Wind farm
Good news for the region and for the climate as Kwasi Kwarteng, Secretary of State for BEIS announced that Vattenfall’s 1.8GW Norfolk Boreas wind farm has been granted planning consent. Initial consent for the project was due to be decided earlier this year, but Kwarteng triggered a pause on the process soon after announcing plans…
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…