Offshore Renewables – Page 87

  • The Dutch registered cargo vessel Deo Volente delivered EMEC's large cable reel from Norway to Fendercare's new facility at Lyness.
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    Orkneys pulling in renewables support

    2011-06-25T12:00:00Z

    The first company to establish a permanent shore-based facility at Orkney''s new marine renewables base has secured its first client, the European Marine Energy Centre.

  • The first Tidal Transit crew transfer vessel, due in October, will provide up to 12 technicians with beds for the night whilst taking them up to 150 miles offshore.
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    Seafood to wind farms for Tidal Transit

    2011-06-23T17:01:00Z

    A new offshore wind farm support operation based in Norfolk UK has an interesting history, with its origins in fishing and restaurants.

  • Carbon emission cuts of 50% from 1990 levels by 2027 have been unveiled by the UK government. Photo by Peter Barker
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    UK government commits to fourth carbon budget

    2011-06-23T17:00:00Z

    In a decision that will be of relevance to the marine renewable industry, the UK government has broadly accepted the recommendations of the independent Committee on Climate Change (CCC) for the fourth carbon budget.

  • Principle Power, alongside partners EDP, InovCapital, Vestas and others, has recently signed an agreement for the deployment of the first full scale WindFloat, with a Vestas V80 – 2.0 MW turbine, off the coast of Portugal later this year.
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    Floating Wind Turbines – New Developments in a Buoyant Market

    2011-06-13T15:45:00Z

    In recent years there have been two significant trends in the wind industry - developers are searching for higher quality wind resources and turbines are getting larger and larger.

  • The ‘flotel’ Wind Ambition has been deployed on site at the Sheringham Shoal offshore wind farm.
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    Floating hotel for offshore wind farm

    2011-06-13T12:48:00Z

    The crane vessel Oleg Strashnov has arrived back at the Sheringham Shoal offshore wind farm site from Holland after picking up a further supply of monopoles to resume foundation installations.

  • An artist’s impression of the proposed Vestas wind turbine manufacturing facility at Sheerness in Kent UK. Image: Vestas
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    Sheerness wind turbine manufacturing base

    2011-05-18T20:56:00Z

    Following Siemens’ decision to manufacture offshore wind turbines at the UK port of Hull, further evidence of the industry’s desire to establish manufacturing facilities in the UK has arrived.

  • An artist’s impression of an array of four SeaGen tidal turbines, such as may be deployed at Kyle Rhea.
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    UK Government backs MCT for EU funding

    2011-05-18T20:56:00Z

    An application from the UK''s Marine Current Turbines to secure money from the European Union’s New Entrant Reserve (NER) scheme has been approved by the UK’s Department of Energy & Climate Change.

  • The WindSentinel can be taken from location to location, providing a flexible assessment device.
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    Taking the sting out of wind assessment

    2011-05-18T10:00:00Z

    A new device aims to reduce the major challenge inherent in offshore wind resource assessment, the gathering and validating of data.

  • A tidal turbine at the Voith Hydro factory.
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    Clean energy for Korea

    2011-05-13T12:00:00Z

    A European company is about to help Korea utilise the enormous potential of clean, CO2-free energy from the oceans.

  • MPI Adventure is seen arriving in the port of Harwich on Monday. Photo: Paul Bell
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    MPI Adventure arrives in the UK

    2011-05-12T12:00:00Z

    The construction of offshore wind farms in European waters has received a significant boost with the arrival at the UK port of Harwich on Monday of the first of two dedicated wind turbine installation vessels (WTIV).

  • Grimsby docks and the dock tower. A wind farm operation and maintenance base will be added to the area this year.
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    Favourable winds blow into Grimsby

    2011-05-12T11:59:00Z

    Centrica, the energy group whose businesses include British Gas, has signed a long term lease that will enable it to build an operation and maintenance base at Grimsby docks to serve its wind farms.

  • The DeepCWind floating wind turbine scale model in front of MARIN’s new dedicated wind set-up. Photo: MARIN
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    MARIN moves closer to DeepCWind

    2011-05-05T10:41:00Z

    The Maritime Research Institute Netherlands (MARIN) is in the closing stages of testing three different floating wind turbine concepts for the DeepCwind Consortium (USA), led by the University of Maine.

  • Stril Explorer will work in the offshore renewable energy market as well as the subsea sector.
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    Deal delivers offshore renewables vessel

    2011-04-28T12:37:00Z

    Aberdeen UK based SeaHold GeoShips Limited (GeoShips) has chartered its first new multi-purpose offshore vessel to support the growing offshore renewable energy market and the subsea sector.

  • Targets of at least 600MW of offshore wind and 300MW of tidal stream generating capacity for Northern Ireland are proposed to be in place by 2020. Photo by Peter Barker
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    Northern Ireland prepares for renewables

    2011-04-21T11:51:00Z

    Two major bodies have published a design discussion document for the development of offshore renewable energy projects in Northern Ireland waters.

  • The newbuilding WTIV on order for Van Oord BV at the shipyard of JJ Sietas Hamburg, due for delivery in 2012.
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    Operators respond to wind farm demand

    2011-04-19T14:00:00Z

    With details now emerging of around 20 firm orders and options for wind turbine installation vessels (WTIVs) worldwide, it is possible to gain a picture of how those involved are responding to the demand for this relatively new type of vessel.

  • With marine energy on the rise in Scotland, Aberdeen makes an ideal venue for All-Energy 2011.
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    Spotlight on power sees All-Energy shine

    2011-04-11T16:14:00Z

    All-Energy, the UK’s largest renewable energy exhibition and conference, has just got even larger.

  • The Turbine B rotor assembly is lifted for the Beatrice Wind Farm Demonstrator Project in Scotland’s Moray Firth. The project included two 5MW turbines, the world’s largest at the time. Photo: Beatrice – Talisman Energy
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    Scottish plans for wind energy

    2011-04-07T10:57:00Z

    Plans for developing Scotland’s offshore wind potential have been unveiled with publication of Blue Seas – Green Energy, the Sectoral Marine Plan for Offshore Wind Energy in Scottish Territorial Waters.

  • This HPTIV can operate in year around weather conditions with an operational water depth range of 4.5m to 50m.
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    Joint development wind turbine vessel

    2011-03-31T11:19:00Z

    Marine power solutions provider Wärtsilä and oil and gas services company Aker Solutions will be combining their expertise to develop a new and environmentally sound concept for offshore wind farm installation vessels.

  • This event, and those in the following years, will enable potential marine energy supply chain businesses to make important business decisions on when to enter the market, how their business costs might be affected, and when and how to promote t...
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    Marine energy opportunities highlighted

    2011-03-31T11:16:00Z

    Businesses will have the chance to learn more about the marine energy opportunities for the Orkney and Pentland Firth waters at an event in Caithness on Tuesday 5 April.

  • Budget measures on enterprise zones, education and training could translate into supply chain growth, particularly around UK ports. Photo by Peter Barker
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    Mixed response to UK budget

    2011-03-29T09:57:00Z

    The Conservative led UK Coalition Government’s second budget delivered a mix of hope and disappointment last month to those with an interest in marine energy.