Offshore Renewables – Page 64
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NewsWave Energy Scotland 'open for business'
In mid-March, the new research and development organisation Wave Energy Scotland declared that it is now ''open for business'' - and announced the launch of a £7 million technology innovation competition.
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NewsNew project aims to improve protection against subsea cable faults
A new project to design a system that detects and prevents high voltage insulation faults in subsea power cables for offshore wind farms has been awarded funding by the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) Offshore Wind Component Technologies Development and Demonstration Scheme.
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NewsDual doppler radar project aims to provide 'step change' in wind resource measurement
In mid-March, the Carbon Trust - via its Offshore Wind Accelerator Programme (OWA) - announced plans to support a state of the art technology trial to understand the viability of using dual doppler radar to produce ''high resolution dynamic maps of the wind flow through and around a wind farm.''
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NewsCombined wind and wave unit ready to go
After 17 years of development and testing the Danish company, Floating Power Plant is ready to offer a tried and tested combined wind and wave power generator. Over the years the concept has grown from a small 2.4 metre unit through to a full scale unit 37 metres in size ...
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NewsMulti Cat for wave and tidal
Marine operations company Green Marine Energy Support Services, based in Stromness, Orkney (UK), recently took delivery of a Damen Multi Cat 2712 workboat for its offshore wave and tidal activities.
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NewsVan Oord cable-layer joins their windfarm fleet
Offshore contractor Van Oord has taken delivery of the first of class Damen Offshore Carrier Nexus, configured as a cable-laying vessel for installation of subsea cables at offshore windfarms.
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NewsRound 3 moves forwards – a little leaner
It is two years now since ''Maritime Journal'' took an in-depth look at the UK’s Round 3 offshore wind programme, two years on and with ups and downs with progress, time for another look.
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Ricardo rotates for a longer life
The Ricardo MultiLife wind turbine bearing system has been successfully installed and commissioned on a 600 kW turbine at the Barnesmore wind farm operated by ScottishPower Renewables in County Donegal, Ireland.
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Penguin extended
Finnish wave energy developer Wello Oy is extending the testing programme of its Penguin wave energy convertor at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Orkney having signed a one year extension to their original contract.
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NewsOsiris delivers key ROV and cable pull-in
Osiris, part of James Fisher and Sons plc, has successfully completed a long-term UK project started in spring 2014, carrying out a wide-range of services with cross-trained personnel on the 219MW wind farm, Humber Gateway, based 8km off the Holderness coast in East Yorkshire.
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NewsSwedes welcome Welsh report
Marine energy has a positive impact on the Welsh economy, according to the new report ‘Marine Energy in Wales – Investment, Jobs, Supply Chain’ by Marine Energy Pembrokeshire (MEP). Anders Jansson, CEO of Nordic marine energy technology company Minesto with plans for a marine energy array in Wales, agrees with ...
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NewsFive PLAT-Os for Scotland
Sustainable Marine Energy (SME) Ltd is making a strategic move into the Scottish tidal energy sector having signed a long term testing contract with the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) Ltd.
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NewsEvopod completes trials
The Evopod is a device for generating electricity from coastal tidal streams, tidal estuaries, rivers and ocean currents and rather than being attached to the seabed it offers a unique floating solution for tidal energy generation. The designers, Oceanflow claim that this type of solution offers a much cheaper and ...
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NewsModular tidal platform
The the first BlueTEC Tidal Energy platform has been formally named by the Mayor of Texel, the Netherlands. The floating platform, which holds tidal turbines below the sea surface, will soon be positioned near the island of Texel – supplying clean electricity to the Dutch grid.
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NewsFaBTest results
A cutting-edge wave energy converter device trialled in Falmouth, UK is being deployed to its first commercial site. The Fred Olsen Bolt Lifesaver, the first device tested at the FaBTest site, underwent trials for more than two years and will be shortly arriving in its new location in Hawaii.
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NewsLockheed Martin to build monster tidal turbine
Atlantis Resources, majority owner of the world’s largest tidal stream energy project, MeyGen, has announced that it has executed a construction contract with global defence contractor Lockheed Martin for the delivery of Atlantis’ new 1.5 megawatt AR1500 turbine to fulfil the Company’s MeyGen project turbine supply obligations.
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NewsAll-Energy – all-ready
In a matter of weeks some 450 exhibiting companies from nearly 20 countries are set to arrive at Glasgow’s Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre (SECC) for All-Energy 2015 – the UK’s largest renewable energy exhibition and conference, being held Wednesday 6- Thursday 7 May.
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NewsETI reports paint contrasting pictures for UK wave and tidal energy sectors
Two new reports from the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) conclude that tidal stream energy ''has the potential to compete with other low carbon sources on cost,'' but that wave energy ''needs radical innovation if it is to be competitive.''
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NewsCorPower completes final phase testing of WEC technology
In early March, Swedish wave energy company CorPower Ocean announced that it had completed the final phase of testing of its advanced compact high-efficiency Wave Energy Converter (WEC) technology - which it claims is capable of delivering a power density ''five times higher than competing technologies'' and a cost of ...
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NewsRace Bank cables
Jan De Nul Group has signed an agreement with Dong Energy for the installation of subsea export cables at the Race Bank offshore wind development project in the UK during 2016 and 2017. Jan De Nul Group is very well known within dredging circles, and has over the last years ...
