Offshore Renewables – Page 39

  • The report identifies shared technical and innovation challenges
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    Franco- Scottish floating wind and hydrogen partnership

    2021-07-27T12:05:00Z

    The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) and partners have delivered a report outlining a series of recommendations for the Scottish Government.

  • Professor Feargal Brennan, Head of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering at the University of Strathclyde and the Ocean-REFuel project lead
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    Offshore wind energy to make fuels, not just power the grid

    2021-07-23T12:42:00Z

    An innovative £10M research project will investigate the potential of harnessing offshore wind and marine renewable energy to produce zero carbon hydrogen and ammonia fuels.

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    Scotwind leasing round

    2021-07-22T10:52:00Z

    Commenting on the recent announcement by Crown Estate Scotland that it has received over 70 applications from developers to build offshore wind farms in Scottish waters in the latest stage of the ScotWind leasing process, RenewableUK’s CEO Dan McGrail said:

  • WindFloat Atlantic
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    Offshore wind classification first

    2021-07-21T11:38:00Z

    ABS classification has been awarded to an offshore windfarm for the first time.

  • Cerulean Winds has plans for a 200-turbine floating wind and hydrogen development in the North Sea
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    Wind to hydrogen plan moves a step closer

    2021-07-19T11:25:00Z

    A green infrastructure developer has signed an agreement to support onshore green hydrogen plants and associated industrial infrastructure.

  • SEM-REV project
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    Hydrogen safety study

    2021-07-16T14:32:00Z

    Safety risks for the world''s first offshore hydrogen production facilities will be studied.

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    Business development merger

    2021-07-16T11:40:00Z

    Team Humber Marine Alliance and Grimsby Renewables Partnership have announced their intention to merge to create one of the UK’s leading renewables and maritime business development organisations.

  • offshore wind
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    Cutting offshore wind LCoE

    2021-07-15T14:28:00Z

    New UK/US research aims to reduce the levelised cost of energy (LCoE) in offshore floating wind by investigating the effects of using wake steering.

  • Hywind Tampen floating offshore windfarm is progressing well (Photo: Woldcam / Equinor ASA)
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    Technical challenges to floating offshore wind analysed

    2021-07-13T11:04:00Z

    A new report analyses the technical opportunities and challenges for the floating offshore wind sector to overcome, as it moves towards commercial scale farms.

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    Scottish floating wind partnership

    2021-07-09T10:29:00Z

    Two offshore wind energy companies have announced their establishment of a partnership to develop floating offshore wind generation sites in Scotland.

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    French expertise in demand in Japan

    2021-07-08T13:28:00Z

    French company BW Ideol has signed a joint development agreement with ENEOS Corporation, Japan’s largest oil refiner and distributor, to develop a site-specific commercial-scale floating offshore wind farm off Japan based on BW Ideol’s patented Damping Pool® technology.

  • The firm’s unique turbine design consists of a fixed pitch rotor engineered from carbon-fibre
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    Turbines set to survive two decades underwater

    2021-07-07T14:27:00Z

    Rigorous tests have proved that a tidal power developer’s underwater turbines have the necessary build quality to survive for twenty years in the field.

  • wave energy
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    Wave energy tender

    2021-07-05T18:49:00Z

    Wave energy developers can now apply for new funding to realise innovative projects.

  • Sabella test turbine at launch in 2018
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    UK-French tidal energy partnership

    2021-07-01T14:14:00Z

    Nova Innovation and Sabella have recently joined forces to develop tidal energy projects in French and UK waters.

  • Floating wind farm
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    Standardisation call

    2021-06-30T16:49:00Z

    For floating wind technology to meaningfully contribute to the renewable energy mix in the next decade there must be a significant standardisation effort around substructure technologies.

  • The system is connected to a single point mooring system in a downwind configuration
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    €2.5m EIC Accelerator Grant for floating wind

    2021-06-24T13:35:00Z

    A Spanish developer has secured a multi-million euro grant through the European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator programme to launch its first commercial floating wind project.

  • WTIV 'Vole au vent' (Photo: Jan de Nul Group)
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    Monster Jack-up completes Denmark’s largest windfarm

    2021-06-22T11:33:00Z

    Jan De Nul Group has finished installing a total of 72 wind turbines of 8.4MW each on behalf of Vattenfall Denmark at Kriegers Flak offshore wind farm.

  • Dr Lee Clarke
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    Offshore wind accelerating

    2021-06-22T10:46:00Z

    More than 200GW of new offshore wind projects have been announced since the beginning of 2020.

  • Moray East sent its first power to the grid last week, but the turbines will last only about 25 years
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    The environmental headache of decommissioned turbine blades

    2021-06-16T12:03:00Z

    We’re all onboard with the increasing carbon reduction benefits of moving to ever larger and more efficient offshore wind turbines, but what do we do with the thousands of scrap blades?

  • mooring line fatigue tracker
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    Remote monitoring for offshore wind

    2021-06-16T11:25:00Z

    A new floating offshore wind real-time, remote monitoring solution minimises in-person inspections.