Apollo and Vekta Group announce partnership to provide key services across the offshore wind and Oil & Gas sectors.
Offshore Wind developers and Oil and Gas companies are being offered access to a flexible, streamlined service in support of the energy transition and offshore wind farm developments. Engineering and Consultancy companies, Apollo and Vekta Group today signed a memorandum of understanding that brings together decades of joint experience of both sectors. The new combined […]
Vekta Group is pleased to announce collaboration with Strathclyde University
Vekta Group has joined forces with senior lecturer David McMillan at Strathclyde University in order to collaborate on a graduate 4th year project. The project will run from now until May 2021 and will involve the design and testing of transmission system models for offshore wind farms. We are very excited to be working with […]
Vekta Group joins ORE Catapult ELECTRODE working group
Vekta Group is pleased to announce that our Director Charles Balderston will be joining the newly formed ORE Catapult ELECTRODE working group. The working group will provide insight and validate the methodologies already collated by ORE Catapult, and work as our review process to initiate the best process for industry approved methodologies and trends. The […]
Vekta Group is taking part in the on demand sessions for Renewable UK 2020 floating offshore wind event
Vekta Group is pleased to annouce that we are taking part in RUK’s 2020 floating offshore wind event this year and are very excited to have made a contribution to the downloadable sessions. Our presentation is titled “Forecasting Floating Wind Farm Cost and Project Performance” and is a joint effort between Generating Better and University […]
Vekta Group is pleased to welcome Angela Montacute who is joining as an Independant Board Advisor
Angela is a seasoned Senior Executive with over 30 years of experience in the financial and professional services industries. As Chief Operating Officer had global responsibility across 30 countries for IT, Marketing, Digital, Operations, Data Intelligence and Innovation Specialising in business and digital transformation and supporting sustainable and ethical brands Angela now runs her own […]
Vekta Group is pleased to welcome Ian Johnson who is joining as Associate Consultant
Ian is an experienced and versatile Project Manager with 29 years of project experience in the energy sector including 19 years in the development, construction, management and steering of more than a dozen offshore wind projects (over 5GW capacity). He has experience from proposal stage, through financial close to handover to operations of complex multi-contract […]
Vekta Group is pleased to welcome Tom Charlesworth who is joining as Associate Consultant
Tom is an experienced Chartered Accountant with demonstrated experience in debt financing, acquisitions, valuation, development and financial modelling. A commercially focused self-starter with strong drive and enthusiasm for value and investment, Tom has worked on over 16GW of power generation projects across a broad range of technologies across Europe, primarily focused on the UK. Most […]
Climate Emergency as 2019 is the 2nd hottest year on record
With the previous decade being the hottest on record for the last 150 years and 2019 being the second hottest year ever recorded its more critical than ever that we all respond to the #climateemergency. The UK MET office is predicting that 2020 will yet again break temperature records. Furthermore the Global Economic Forum’s global […]
Brussels unveils €1 trillion European Green Deal
In a historic move the EU aims to have the Green Deal enshrined in law with the first European ‘Climate Law’ by March 2020, which it says will set out the conditions for transition, provide predictability for investors, and ensure the transition to carbon neutrality is irreversible. The plan to make the EU carbon neutral […]
Rise of next generation turbines bring opportunity and challenge
Next generation wind turbines are driving a step change in MW capacity with innovation being at the forefront of these machines. The 12MW GE Halliade-X prototype recently hit the significant first power milestone but Siemens Gamesa are hot on the heels of GE as work has started on erecting the 11MW protoype at the Osterild […]