Latest Environment News – Page 82
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North Sea wind atlas aims to gather highly accurate wind data
A consortium of Dutch organisations has embarked on a project aimed at creating a new atlas containing highly accurate information about North Sea winds for use in offshore wind energy applications.
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NewsOffshore demonstration blade project aims to bring further cost savings
During November, an international team of organisations launched the Offshore Demonstration Blade (ODB) project to support the research, development and demonstration of wind turbine blade innovations, including aerodynamic and structural enhancements, blade monitoring systems and blade erosion protection solutions.
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NewsFrancis Brown wins offshore contracts
UK fabrication and engineering company Francis Brown has secured offshore wind contracts with BiFab and SMD.
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NewsShipping industry holds own summit at COP 23 climate meeting
The 23rd session of the UN’s Climate Change Conference, ‘COP 23’, took place in Bonn, Germany from November 6th – 17th. Under the aegis of the main conference, the ‘Ambition 1.5°C: Global Shipping’s Action Plan’ summit took place on November 13th.
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NewsWater quality monitors for the Keil Canal
MacArtney has supplied a series of water quality monitor (WQM) instruments from Sea-Bird Scientific for a monitoring and modelling project in the Kiel Canal, Northern Germany.
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NewsOne-day oil spill emergency planning exercise
ABP’s Garston team in the UK has participated in a full-day oil spill emergency planning exercise in order to improve incident response times and demonstrate its readiness to deal with similar incidents as part of the regular emergency incident training undertaken by ABP.
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Name change for oil spill detection company
Oslo based Miros AS, a leading provider of meteorological and oceanographic systems and solutions has announced that Muir Matheson Limited has officially changed its name to Miros Scotland Limited.
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NewsDAME Award nomination for NRG Marine at METS
UK-headquartered NRG Marine has launched at METS 2017 Soni8, the company’s first ultrasonic anti-fouling system designed specifically for large commercial vessels and superyachts, and achieved a DAME award nomination.
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Tideman Boats’ new oil spill response craft
Tideman Boats is developing a dedicated HDPE oil spill response craft (OSRC) in partnership with Hebo Maritime Services.
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NewsThe world’s most powerful wind turbine
MHI Vestas has further established its position as a major player in the offshore wind market by introducing its most powerful wind turbine generator along with the completion of a new assembly building for turbine structures and a large investment in a turbine gearbox testing facility.
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NewsOffshore Catapult and Hull University team up for Offshore O&M centre of excellence
In the first week of October, the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult and the University of Hull announced that they had teamed up to launch a pioneering £2 million offshore wind operations and maintenance (O&M) centre of excellence.
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20-year life extension for wind turbines
New research shows that most wind turbines can extend operation beyond their design life of 20 years.
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NewsWord’s first floating offshore wind farm now open
The world''s first floating wind farm, Statoil''s Hywind project, has been officially opened by Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.
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NewsNew player in port waste management enters the market
A new Norwegian technology is helping to solve pollution problems in ports by collecting waste from the water surface.
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NewsWave energy generator begins sea testing
A wave energy generator designed to power approximately 5,000 homes has entered sea testing stage.
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NewsGauging the media and public reaction to the Contracts for Difference auction
As reported in ‘MJ’ and elsewhere, last month''s high-profile Contracts for Difference (CFD) auction presented a very positive cost assessment of offshore wind and demonstrated that the sector can now produce power for under 6p per kilowatt hour – lower than the cost of new nuclear and new gas plants.
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NewsFourth FORESEA open and calling for proposals
The EU’s FORESEA (Funding Ocean Energy through Strategic European Action) programme recently launched its 4th call for proposals at the Offshore Energy 2017 conference.
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NewsMinimising the effects of scour on wind turbine foundations
UK independent engineering and environmental hydraulics organisation HR Wallingford has completed a ten week project working with Oxford University’s Department of Engineering Science and energy company E.ON, examining different forms of scour protection to assure the stability of offshore wind turbine monopiles.
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NewsGKinetic’s tidal prototype outputs ‘beyond international industry standards’
An Irish tidal energy company developing a unique technology for ‘off grid’ locations around the world is to develop its first commercial device after the successful completion of its prototype testing programme.
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NewsTidal turbulence study tackles energy capture effectiveness
Buoys will be used in a project to improve the design and effectiveness of tidal energy capture devices.
