Sophie Stainthorpe

Norfolk sustainability experts are calling on the government to publish an urgent roadmap with greater clarity on new plans to boost UK wind power and help East Anglia become a flagbearer in low-cost clean power generation.

The Crown Estate is nearing the completion of the second of its three tender stages for Offshore Wind Leasing Round 4 and has now updated the intended timeline for the final tender stage.

Two of the UK’s leading research organisations in the development of robotics for use in offshore renewables are to collaborate to strengthen the relationship between applied academic research and industry need and further develop and amplify the sector’s robotics opportunity.

East of England Energy Group (EEEGR) has announced Alastair Gill, team lead consents and permits for offshore wind at RWE Renewables, as a director on the EEEGR board.

More than 30 new jobs are being created to help the clean energy sector grow, expand and thrive.

Norfolk County Council (NCC) has recently announced £6 million of funding to deliver an offshore energy Operations and Maintenance (O&M) campus at the port of Great Yarmouth.

SmartestEnergy’s ‘Smart Generation: State of the Market Report 2020’ outlines how flexibility and maximising merchant revenue models will be key to successful generation projects in the post-subsidy energy landscape.

Two of the world’s leading offshore wind developers have joined forces to develop an extension adjacent to the operational 504 megawatt (MW) Greater Gabbard Offshore Wind Farm, located more than 20 kilometres off the UK coast in the southern North Sea.

The East of England has been labelled the ‘epicentre of energy generation’ and Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft described as ‘honeypots for investment’.

Ten companies from the Norfolk and Suffolk region have won out against fierce competition to secure a place in the first intake of the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult’s industry-backed Fit 4 Offshore Renewables (F4OR) New Anglia Programme.