Environment News – Page 92
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NewsLiDAR comparison for offshore wind mapping
The UK-headquartered Carbon Trust has announced the start of the world’s largest trial of scanning Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology which is taking place in Dublin Bay, Ireland. This is the latest Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA) project designed to help reduce the cost of energy from offshore wind.
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NewsNew guide to offshore wind cable burial
The UK’s Offshore Wind Accelerator has published a new report to inform industry on how to apply the Cable Burial Risk Assessment Guidance (CBRA) following its launch earlier this year.
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NewsCorpower at EMEC
Swedish wave energy developer, CorPower Ocean, has signed up to test its novel resonant wave energy converter at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Orkney.
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NewsMonopile non-destructive testing breakthrough
Greater Gabbard Offshore Winds Ltd (GGOWL), the operators of the Greater Gabbard Offshore Wind Farm (offshore UK) has utilised the latest vacuum blasting techniques from Seawork exhibitor Precision Blast Systems Ltd as part of its maintenance plan.
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NewsGKinetic Energy launches novel tidal energy device
Late last year, Irish company GKinetic Energy deployed its innovative OC1 tidal energy device in Limerick Docks. So how exactly does the new technology work? What challenges do the project team face in deploying the device? And what are the prospects for its future roll out and ...
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NewsNew software tool aims to cut maintenance costs for offshore wind turbines
Researchers at Robert Gordon University (RGU) in Aberdeen are developing a software tool that aims to ''dramatically cut maintenance costs for offshore wind turbines.''
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NewsSotenäs wave energy plant reaches grid connection milestone
Last December, the innovative Sotenäs Wave Energy Plant was successfully connected to the Swedish National Grid via a subsea cable. So, how exactly does the Sotenäs Plant work? And what plans are there for the future development of the device?
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NewsWave energy convertor milestone
Marine Power Systems (MPS), a Swansea, UK-based company that is developing convertor technologies to harness wave energy, has recently completed testing of its prototype pump, a key subsystem of the company’s WaveSub wave energy converter (WEC).
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NewsFirst Seanergy set for Biarritz
Seanergy, an international business convention on Marine Renewable Energy, will take place for the very first time on June 1-2 2016 in Biarritz, France (Halle d’Iraty).
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NewsSabella GreenLink connection
Denmark-headquartered MacArtney Group has provided a connectivity solution to help French marine renewable energy company Sabella connect a tidal turbine to an onshore grid.
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NewsConsortium to build Portuguese floating wind farm
An international consortium has been formed to fund and develop a commercial floating wind farm in the Atlantic waters off the coast of Portugal near Porto. This development follows the successful trials of a prototype floating generator unit developed by WindFloat which has been operating for the past four years.
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NewsMet mast removal contract
MPI Offshore, a subsidiary of Netherlands-headquartered Vroon Groop, has announced that wind-turbine-installation vessel ‘MPI Resolution’ has been contracted by RWE for the removal of the IJmuiden Met Mast.
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NewsMini-E Cleaner
Switzerland -based Grove Boats has over 20 years of experience in developing solar electric boats that are mainly aimed at passenger carrying requirements in inland waterways and harbours.
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NewsSmit and Mammoet complete wreck removal
Boskalis subsidiary Smit Salvage along with Mammoet Salvage have completed the complex wreck removal of a sunken car carrier that was presenting environmental and navigation risks to Europe’s largest port.
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NewsMini-skimmer for shallow water oil spills
The Central Coastal Command for Maritime Emergencies (CCME) in Germany has put a shallow-water oil skimming system into service on a flotilla of multi-purpose boats and will equip more.
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NewsAtlantis Resources building UK tidal power portfolio
ScottishPower Renewables has joined forces with Singapore-headquartered Atlantis Resources to establish the largest tidal stream portfolio in the UK.
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NewsDEME’s offshore wind road show
After December’s closing event in London, DEME, the Belgian dredging and marine construction giant is looking back on a very successful series of nationwide supply chain events in the UK to strengthen its local involvement in the offshore wind industry.
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NewsNordsee One construction commenced
GeoSea, part of the Belgian dredging, environmental and marine engineering group, DEME, has announced that it has begun the construction works for the offshore windfarm Nordsee One in the German North Sea.
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NewsTrumped on windfarm appeal
It’s not often that ‘Maritime Journal’ gets to comment on such world news as US presidential candidates, but Scottish offshore wind made the international headlines today, due to Donald Trump, the leading Republican candidate for the US presidency losing a court appeal over permission for an offshore windfarm.
