Offshore Renewables

Seatools will produce an anode cage installation tool for GeoSea, part of installation operations for the Hohe See offshore wind farm (OFW), off the coast of Germany.

Construction of a floating wind farm off Scotland’s north east coast is near completion and will enable wind energy to be generated in deep water unsuitable for conventional turbines.

Netherlands-owned Acta Marine’s construction support vessel Acta Orion is carrying out accommodation and walk-to-work duties for Siemens on Dong Energy’s Norfolk offshore wind farm, Race Bank.

LiDARs have replaced met masts to become the sole wind measurement tool used for offshore resource assessment and power curve verification purposes, wind measurement experts at a London conference claim.

During May, Wave Energy Scotland and the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) published a series of guidance documents presenting the findings of the Orkney supply chain wave energy device testing project. So…

Offshore energy service vessel operator, Seacat Services, has agreed a two-year charter contract to provide support through early operations at the UKs new 336MW Galloper offshore windfarm.

A partnership to deliver high yield water turbines has been established by two Dutch companies; electrical system integrator, Bakker Sliedrecht, and water turbine manufacturer, Water2Energy.

In recent years, the Irish wave and tidal energy sector has steadily grown - with a number of companies and organisations now making solid progress in the development of devices around the…

An innovative new project aimed at developing and demonstrating critical components for the monitoring, control and electrical connection of reliable Ocean Energy Arrays (OEAs) has recently moved from concept development to the…

During March, UK tidal energy company Atlantis Resources announced that it had inked a deal with the French specialist marine engineering outfit INNOSEA in a bid to grab a slice of the…

In the middle of March, Irish renewable energy company Gaelectric announced that it has entered into a strategic partnership with French outfit Ideol to develop a number of floating offshore wind energy…

In early March 2017, a consortium of UK universities and offshore wind energy companies launched a novel initiative to assess the potential application of advanced technologies such as robotics and artificial intelligence…

Natural Resources Wales has given consent is for a 0.5 MW Deep Green tidal generating device to be installed in the southern corner of the Holyhead Deep in the UK’s Irish Sea.…

With the offshore wind market entering maturity the focus for renewables is turning further towards tidal and wave energy with tidal energy attracting a lot of attention.

The German electricity grid regulator has approved bids to build what will be the first offshore wind farms that depend entirely on market prices for viability rather than government support and subsidies.

The Articulated Wind Column (AWC) from UK-based ODE is a crossover technology with 40 years of use in the oil and gas industry re-engineered for offshore wind in mid to deep water…

Norwegian Ocean Power has successfully completed the initial trials on its Pulsus horizontal-axis spiral-design tidal turbine. These trials were primarily aimed at testing the bearings of the turbine which are a critical…

EC-OG switched on its tidal power generator, the Subsea Power Hub at the European Marine Energy Centres (EMEC’s) Shapinsay Sound test site off Scotland for the first time in mid-April 2917. The…

Spanish based Micro Shelter Solution is supplying equipment and assisting GeoSea NV in the implementation of the radar/VTS installations on the Galloper offshore windfarm foundations.