Environment News – Page 88
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NewsBig solution for small vessels
A number of demonstrations have shown how DESMI’s antipollution devices can deal effectively with a number of perplexing problems – including a dearth of vessels on hand to help deal with a spill.
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NewsCarousels galore
The various offshore transmission developments underway in northern European waters, primarily related to wind farms, have led to the recent announcement of new onshore cable storage carousels on both the Northeast and South coasts of the UK.
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NewsAXYS Italian distribution
AXYS Technologies, a Canadian manufacturer of surface condition monitoring buoys popular in the offshore renewables industry, has announced the appointment of Geomarine as its new Value Added Reseller in Italy.
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NewsEast Anglia One contracts
Scottish Power Renewables is progressing the East Anglia One Offshore Wind farm (offshore UK) with the award of design and construction contracts. This £2.5 billion project is a 50:50 joint venture partnership with Vattenfall Wind Power and was awarded rights to develop wind farms off the coast of East Anglia ...
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Ballast Water Management Convention enters into force
The IMO’s Ballast Water Management Convention will enter into force on 8 September 2017 after Finland acceded to the treaty, but there concerns that shipowners are still without treatment systems approved for global use.
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NewsPeace Boat sign Ecoship collaboration agreement
Peace Boat and DNV GL signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to form a partnership to develop the Ecoship cruise ship.
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NewsSeabed plough completes £5m Race Bank wind farm project
Scotland-based Ecosse Subsea Systems has completed a second major seabed clearance project on behalf of DONG Energy on what will be one of the world’s largest offshore windfarms.
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NewsStatoil expands its wind farm portfolio
Norwegian oil major Statoil and Statkraft have signed a letter of intent that will see Statoil take over as the operator of the Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm from January 2017.
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NewsGreen light for Vattenfall test centre
The Swedish energy company Vattenfall and its partner, the Aberdeen Renewable Energy Group (AREG), have been developing the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre.
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NewsHamburg going greener
DNV GL signed a letter of intent with the Hamburg Port Authority (HPA) at the recent SMM event, to increase sustainability and reduce the emissions of its own vessels.
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NewsWind ro-ro - with a twist
The wind power industry is getting closer and closer to its goal of producing cost-competitive electricity: “In fact it is predicted that it will reach parity with fossil fuels by 2025,” explained Chris Garrett of DNV GL – Energy “something which only comes with scale.” However, it also stands to ...
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NewsOceantech spar wave generator deployment
The deployment of the Oceantec wave energy converter, which has been designed by Oceantec Energy Marinas, as part of the EU-funded OPERA project is planned for September. It will be installed at a prepared site located some 2 miles offshore from Northern Spain in the Bay of Biscay.
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NewsAdwen produces world's largest blade
Offshore wind turbine manufacturer Adwen and turbine rotor blades supplier LM Wind Power have unveiled the world''s longest wind turbine blade. The 88.4 metre long blade has been designed for Adwen''s AD 8-180 wind turbine, an 8 MW wind turbine with a 180 metre rotor diameter. This large blade was ...
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News8MW turbine
German wind power giant Siemens has upgraded its most powerful offshore wind farm generator unit to 8 MW. Siemens, who has focussed its generator development on direct drive units, stated that its direct drive wind turbine technology for offshore turbines has reached the next development milestone.
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NewsChurchill Barriers tidal project
The Churchill Barriers in Orkney, UK link a series of small islands on the east side of Scapa Flow and they were built during World War II to form a protective barrier against submarine intrusion after the sinking of the battleship Royal Oak by a German submarine in 1939.
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NewsLast Gemini blade for Van Oord
Dutch marine construction major Van Oord reports that its offshore installation vessel ‘Aeolus’ has installed the final wind turbine at the Gemini Offshore Wind Park, completing the installation of all 150 turbines
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NewsMagnetic gear turbine project
Magnomatics, a specialist in magnetic gear technologies formed in 2006 as a spin out from the UK’s University of Sheffield has announced that it is currently working to develop a marine current turbine using the company’s Pseudo Direct Drive (PDD) generator.
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Scandinavian pollution partnership
Finland-based Lamor Corporation Ab and the Norway-based Markleen Group recently signed a cooperation agreement that is claimed will form the most comprehensive and highest quality Oil Spill Response (OSR) solution network on the global market.
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NewsTidal cable testing
Cabling technology company Tratos has supplied tidal energy R&D Company Scotrenewables with an Italian -manufactured bespoke cable solution for its SR2000 2MW tidal turbine testing programme at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC), Orkney.
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42 Technology helps Trident Energy
UK-based Trident Energy has improved the performance of its linear generator concept with the help of a technology optimisation project from 42 Technology.
