Industry News
DECC: Galloper Wind Farm Limited have been granted permission by Government to construct a 504MW wind farm off the coast of Suffolk and related infrastructure at Sizewell which will connect the wind farm to the electricity grid system.
The developer estimates that the 140 turbine development will provide enough electricity to power the equivalent of as many as 500,000 homes a year when completed in 2017. The project could generate around £18 to 20 million of investment in Suffolk and create around 600 jobs across the country.
ScotGov: A cutting-edge centre that will develop subsea pipeline technologies for the world’s oil & gas markets was officially opened by First Minister Alex Salmond last week. The Global Pipeline Welding Development Centre (GPWDC) is the culmination of a £10m investment by the major offshore energy contractor Subsea 7 in its operations base in Clydebank – a development supported with a grant of £800,000 from Scottish Enterprise.
The GPWDC creates innovative pipeline technologies to satisfy increasing market needs associated with oil and gas discoveries increasingly made in deeper water & tougher conditions. Graduate engineers are recruited from many of Scotland’s leading universities including Strathclyde, Edinburgh, Dundee, Stirling, Napier and the University of West Scotland.
HMT: The Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander, has announced a £2m boost for research into the development of a breakthrough electronics material, Gallium Nitride (GaN) by one of the UK’s leading electronics firms in Stockport.
NXP Semiconductors UK successfully bid for funding to develop its next generation of power semiconductors using GaN. GaN is more efficient than conventional silicon and as a result is likely to become a vital resource for the power industry, and future electronics market.
Eventually this breakthrough raw material could replace traditional silicon components in power electronic systems such as used in car systems, mobile phones and communications infrastructure as well as cloud computing.
Eventually this breakthrough raw material could replace traditional silicon components in power electronic systems such as used in car systems, mobile phones and communications infrastructure as well as cloud computing.
