Environment News – Page 96
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NewsCurrent and tidal guidelines
International classification society and certification group Bureau Veritas has published a set of guidelines which it says will help the development of current and tidal turbines. The guidelines are backed by a separate guide to certification for marine renewable energy devices including tidal turbines, wave energy converters and ocean thermal ...
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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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NewsBiggest ever Interspill
Interspill 2015, the European oil spill conference and exhibition, took place at the RAI Convention Centre in Amsterdam across 3 days, from 24-26 March. Over 1,250 delegates, visitors and exhibitors from 75 countries attended, making it the most successful event in the Interspill series to date.
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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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NewsNew BoomVane from Elastec
American company Elastec has demonstrated its new 1.5 metre BoomVane oil recovery system off the coast of France. The BoomVane is designed to recover oil spills using just one towing vessel thus reducing costs considerably when compared with other systems that require two towing vessels to deploy the boom.
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NewsRetrofit project
A wide-scale industry project ‘Retrofit’, which aimed to determine efficient methods and tools for retrofitting existing ships with green technologies, has drawn to a close after three years.
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NewsPacific cleanup sets sail
The Ocean Cleanup, founded by the Dutchman Boyan Slat who invented a method aimed at cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, has announced its next major project: the Mega Expedition, in which it claims up to 50 vessels will collect more plastic measurements in three weeks than have been ...
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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.
