Offshore Renewables – Page 53
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NewsTurbine installation at Dudgeon offshore windfarm completes
The work to install 67 Siemens 6MW turbines at the Dudgeon offshore windfarm has been completed in a project which one operator calls its toughest to date.
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NewsLower offshore wind prices driving contracts
Cost reductions in offshore wind are fuelling growth in industry contracts with three UK offshore wind projects making successful bids.
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NewsEuropean expertise will help kick-start development of offshore wind in Taiwan
Global Maritime has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with a number of leading Taiwanese organisations to develop closer cooperation on offshore wind technologies including marine warranty surveys, inspections and testing services.
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Laminaria raises €2M
Laminaria, an innovative Belgian company in the field of wave energy generation, has raised €2M from new investors, QBIC II and PMV, and existing investor CEIP.
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NewsCWind awarded transition piece gate contracts
CWind has been awarded a contract by DONG Energy, to install new and retrofit existing gates on the transition pieces at the Gode Wind and Borkum Riffgrund offshore wind farms, located in the North Sea off the coast of Northern Germany.
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NewsWhitepaper reports on tidal energy storage solutions
Market research company New Energy Update has published a whitepaper investigating the nascent field of energy storage technologies for tidal energy projects.
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NewsPioneering projects to deepen understanding of human and wildlife impacts of offshore developments
The Swedish wind energy company Vattenfall has announced plans to jointly fund pioneering research to explore how bottlenose dolphins, sea trout, salmon, sea birds and humans are affected by offshore wind developments.
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NewsOffshore wind energy - a continuing European success story
Thirty years ago, the European wind energy sector was nothing more than a nice idea - however, since then it has mushroomed into an international business employing many thousands of people and generating ever greater amounts of renewable energy.
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NewsFrance’s first floating turbine mooring installation
Paris-headquartered Bourbon has completed the mooring installation of the first floating wind turbine in France, at the SEM-REV experimental test site off Le Croisic.
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NewsSeatools delivers anode cage installation tool
Seatools will produce an anode cage installation tool for GeoSea, part of installation operations for the Hohe See offshore wind farm (OFW), off the coast of Germany.
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NewsTurbine arrives for floating wind farm
Construction of a floating wind farm off Scotland’s north east coast is near completion and will enable wind energy to be generated in deep water unsuitable for conventional turbines.
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Offshore windfarm seal solution
International cable seal manufacturer Roxtec has delivered a sealing solution to support a new £1.3billion offshore windfarm in the English Channel
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NewsActa Orion serves turbine installation
Netherlands-owned Acta Marine’s construction support vessel Acta Orion is carrying out accommodation and walk-to-work duties for Siemens on Dong Energy’s Norfolk offshore wind farm, Race Bank.
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NewsLiDARs sole wind measurement tool
LiDARs have replaced met masts to become the sole wind measurement tool used for offshore resource assessment and power curve verification purposes, wind measurement experts at a London conference claim.
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NewsResults of Orkney wave energy supply chain project published
During May, Wave Energy Scotland and the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) published a series of guidance documents presenting the findings of the Orkney supply chain wave energy device testing project. So what are the main themes of each report? And what are the main conclusions?
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NewsSeacat Services support at Galloper windfarm
Offshore energy service vessel operator, Seacat Services, has agreed a two-year charter contract to provide support through early operations at the UK''s new 336MW Galloper offshore windfarm.
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NewsPartnership yields mass energy
A partnership to deliver high yield water turbines has been established by two Dutch companies; electrical system integrator, Bakker Sliedrecht, and water turbine manufacturer, Water2Energy.
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NewsWave Energy Scotland PTO development programme
Wave Energy Scotland has announced that it has selected three wave energy technologies to move forward with stage 3 of its Power Take Off (PTO) development programme. So, which projects are set to share a slice of the £7.5 million investment? And what technological development will the funding ...
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NewsIrish marine energy sector continues to make waves
In recent years, the Irish wave and tidal energy sector has steadily grown - with a number of companies and organisations now making solid progress in the development of devices around the country.
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NewsRECODE Project Moves into Testing and Demonstration Phase
An innovative new project aimed at developing and demonstrating critical components for the monitoring, control and electrical connection of reliable Ocean Energy Arrays (OEAs) has recently moved from concept development to the testing and demonstration phase.
