UK shipping group James Fisher has made another acquisition in the renewables sector.

The company said it had bought all of EDS HV Group for an initial £9m ($12m) in cash.

There is the potential for a further consideration of up to £5.6m subject to profit targets for the two years ending 30 September, 2019.

EDS, headquartered in England, provides a complete range of high-voltage engineering services to the renewables industry, covering the design and installation stages of new wind farm construction projects through to the subsequent monitoring-fault management, repair and maintenance.