Humber could host national research centre for green energy

Link to Hull Daily Mail article.  http://bit.ly/ruMWZl

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Wind farms: How to put a turbine together

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14408731

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Humber EZ ‘will have regional benefits’

http://www.thebusinessdesk.com/yorkshire/news/208798-humber-ez-will-have-regional-benefits.html

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DFDS Seaways adds extra power to Team Humber Marine Alliance

Team Humber Marine Alliance has been further strengthened with DFDS Seaways, of Immingham, agreeing to support the estuary-wide network. DFDS runs one of Northern Europe’s largest freight operations and is among the Humber region’s biggest employers, with around 500 jobs on its 185-acre site.

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Grimsby Fishdock agrees O&M wind farm deal with Centrica

Team Humber member Grimsby Fishdock Enterprises has agreed a 25-year lease with Centrica to enable the energy group to build an operation and maintenance base to serve its wind farms in the Greater Wash. When the facility is completed by the end of this year it is will have capacity for more than 100...

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Port director is hailed green champion

Associated British Ports’ port director, Hull and Goole, Matt Jukes has been honoured as ‘The Yorkshire Post Green Champion for 2011’ at the Yorkshire Post Environment awards. The annual awards ceremony aims to recognise and celebrate the best of the important environmental work being undertaken across the region.

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Partnerships key to renewables jobs success

Organisations from across the city have come together to form a skills partnership to develop skills training packages and raise the skills levels and therefore employability of local people, as progress towards an agreement to build a wind turbine manufacturing facility in the city gathers pace. The partnership, led by Hull City Council working...

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Team Humber trade mission helps MTL secure Norwegian wind contract

An inward trade mission hosted by Team Humber Marine Alliance and Enterprise Europe Yorkshire has helped Alliance member MTL Group secure a multimillion pound deal for work on an offshore wind farm. MTL Group, the Rotherham-based project manufacturer, is to supply 97 boat landing systems to Aker Solutions, the Norwegian energy group, for Nordsee...

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Green boost for Team Humber at major renewable show

More than 100 Humber businesses were represented at one of Europe’s key renewable energy exhibitions and conferences last week. Team Humber Marine Alliance, the Hull-based industry organisation that seeks business opportunities for its members in renewable energy and other key growth sectors, reported ‘great interest in the Humber’ from All-Energy 2011 in Aberdeen, held...

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Siemens announces 80m offshore wind turbine factory to be built in Hull dockland

Great news for the Humber region…Siemens has announced it is to build an £80m offshore wind turbine factory in Hull dockland. It will make the estuary the UK’s leading area for the development of wind energy and substantially boost employment.

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