Offshore Renewables – Page 100
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NewsWave Hub construction underway
Construction has started this month on the pioneering Wave Hub project that will put South West England at the forefront of the global marine energy industry.
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NewsOrkney Islands Council green lights marine renewables
Orkney Islands Council ratified plans on Tuesday for the £ 3million redevelopments of the ‘ Golden Wharf’ at Lyness to be included in the Council’ s major works for 2010/2011.
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NewsLeviathan to work on world's largest wind farm
The newbuild 5,500gt jack-up vessel ‘ Seajacks Leviathan’ arrived in Harwich UK at the end of September to begin work installing wind turbines at the Greater Gabbard Wind Farm. Situated some 25km off the Suffolk/Essex coast, it will be the world’ s largest offshore wind farm to date.
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NewsHeavy lifter 'Svanen' to drive piles for wind turbines
Ballast Nedam' s heavy lift vessel Svanen left the port of Rotterdam early this month after being commissioned by Van Oord Dredging and Marine Contractors to drive 56 steel piles for the foundations of the Belwind offshore wind farm off the coast of Zeebrugge (Belgium). This is the first phase ...
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NewsThanet on schedule
Swedish company Vattenfall is making steady progress with construction of the Thanet Offshore Wind Farm, with over half the foundation and transition pieces now installed and plans in place for the cable laying, turbine installation and longer term maintenance phases of the project. When completed, it will be the world’ ...
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NewsVan Oord to build wind farm off Belgium
Van Oord has been awarded the contract for the engineering, procurement and construction of the first part of the Belwind offshore wind farm project.
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NewsDesign innovation with wind in its sails
An artist's impression of the IHC Merwede concept for an offshore wind turbine installation vessel.These include offshore wind vessels specifically designed for jacket installation, turbine installation and blade installation. The company is convinced that such thinking 'outside the box' is going to prove vital for a new industry where it ...
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NewsWind farm makes Wells a commercial port
Last June the Harbour Commissioners of Wells-next-the-Sea in Norfolk UK signed an agreement with the developers of the Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm, Scira Offshore Energy Ltd., securing a 50 year contract which will alter its primary function from fishing and leisure to commercial port.
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NewsStrong wind brings South Boats fleet to Seawork
South Boats Special Projects Ltd will be taking up their usual berths at this year’ s Seawork 2009 exhibition at the bottom of the main gangway. What is different his year is that the company has arguably grown into the UK’ s busiest and perhaps largest boat building company.
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NewsTidalStream's turbine validated in deep water tests
Two British engineers have developed a breakthrough design that could within five years begin to generate substantial amounts of cheap electricity from deepwater tidal flows. TidalStream Ltd reported last month that their unique turbine platform design, code named Triton, has successfully undergone validation testing at the deep-water test basin at ...
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NewsAnother British wave device welcomed in Portugal
Orecon, the Cornish wave energy device developer, has signed an agreement with Portuguese developer Eneólica. The two companies are establishing a joint venture company to build and deploy Orecon’ s first full scale 1.5MW multi-resonant chamber (MRC) wave energy buoy.
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NewsDutch tide turns in the Westerschelde
The C-Energy consortium installed a support structure for the first Dutch tidal energy demonstration project last week. The project is located at the Marine Terminal of the Total Refinery within the municipality of Borsele in the Westerschelde. Over the next two months all electronics and the rotor will be installed.
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NewsFirst Ocean Cat launched this month.
A new design catamaran for the offshore wind market is due to be launched this month. The Ocean Cat, a 16m aluminium work catamaran designed by Marine Design International Ltd., is under construction at Mooney Boats in Killybegs for Sinbad Marine Services, and is part of the same design family ...
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NewsA simpler form of wave power
Trident Energy is a marine renewables energy company that has developed a unique and low cost system for converting sea wave energy directly into electricity.
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DONG on song as budget ROCS
DONG Energy has decided to build the offshore wind farm Walney II in the Irish Sea. The move is a result of the British government' s increase in funding towards sustainable energy, which the British Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling announced in his budget presentation last month.
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NewsGuidelines agreed for marine energy development
Benchmarks for best practice have been drawn up for the fast emerging marine energy industry to stimulate the development of wave and tidal power systems.
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NewsBritish Budget boosts marine renewables
UK renewable energy industry leaders welcomed the Government’ s budget presentation last month, which delivered a package of measures to build a low carbon economy and further decarbonise electricity generation.
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NewsLocal interests opt for baby barrage
A commission has rejected the idea of large Cardiff-Weston barrage between England and Wales and instead recommended a smaller barrage which would offer the best mix of power output with reduced environmental impact.
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NewsNew consortium for Round 3 wind farms
Fluor Limited, the UK operating arm of Fluor Corporation, formed Seagreen Wind Energy Limited with Airtricity, the renewable energy division of Scottish and Southern Energy last month.
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NewsUK tidal turbine targets Bay of Fundy
A British company is helping to develop the 1GW tidal energy potential of Nova Scotia’ s Bay of Fundy.
