Offshore Renewables – Page 55

  • With a blade tip height of 193 metres, the Seamade  turbines will be the largest in the Belgian North Sea
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    Financial close for Belgian windfarm

    2018-12-04T11:14:00Z

    Following completion of the Rentel wind farm SeaMade has reached financial close for its 487MW Offshore wind farm in the Belgian North Sea.

  • Wave Energy Converter
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    Workshop to showcase wave technology

    2018-12-03T17:04:00Z

    Marine-i will host a ‘Meet the Buyer’ workshop on 24 January to showcase the development of AMOG Consulting Ltd’s Wave Energy Converter concept.

  • Baltic’s Wikinger benefits many (Photo Iberdrola)
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    Spain joins Germany in wind farm Venture

    2018-11-20T12:05:00Z

    A Baltic German-Spanish wind farm will become part of the largest offshore complex of its kind in the area, reports Tom Todd.

  • Jim Smith: the new company will be taking advantage of finance from “a diverse range of sources”
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    Green grows in many ways for SSE Renewables

    2018-11-20T11:57:00Z

    Scottish and Southern Electricity (SSE) is splitting off its renewables business in order to expand it beyond the UK’s borders.

  • Ideol’s Floatgen
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    PSM system keeps wind power platforms stable

    2018-11-19T16:10:00Z

    PSM Instrumentation has developed a detection and control system for monitoring and warning of water entry into the dry area compartments of a 2MW floating wind turbine demonstrator that is believed to be the first of its kind.

  • Orbital O2 2MW
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    “Most powerful” tidal turbine will have 600sqm rotor area

    2018-11-19T14:41:00Z

    Orbital Marine Power’s upcoming commercial production tidal turbine will comprise of a 73m long floating superstructure, supporting two 1MW turbines at either side for a nameplate power output of 2MW, at a tidal current speed of 2.5 m/s.

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    Wind energy to beat 2030 target

    2018-11-15T11:29:00Z

    Wind energy is set overtake coal, nuclear and gas to become the EU’s largest power source well before 2030. This is according to the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) 2018 World Energy Outlook released in November.

  • News

    Poland re-commits to offshore wind

    2018-11-15T10:59:00Z

    Polish State Secretary for Energy, Grzegorz Tobiszowski, has announced plans to develop 8GW of offshore wind by 2035. Poland will soon pass a law to this effect, spelling out the annual volumes up to this date.

  • Part of the marketing material for the new windfarm
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    Go-ahead for major French wind farm

    2018-11-13T15:52:00Z

    The developers of a major offshore wind farm in the Bay of Biscay have received approval allowing the detail work to begin.

  • Nova Innovation turbine deployment at Bluemull Sound
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    EU tidal project moves onto next stage

    2018-10-17T08:47:00Z

    A European Union-backed tidal energy project has received approval from the European Commission to proceed to its next stage after a successful first full year reports Andrew Williams.

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    24 hours of power

    2018-10-16T09:21:00Z

    A new renewable energy system on the Scottish island of Fair Isle went live in October allowing the community to celebrate reliable 24 hour power for the first time.

  • The Roadmap, originally published in 2013, has been revised to include updates, extensions and new performance indicators
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    Update to OWA Floating LiDAR Roadmap

    2018-10-10T10:18:00Z

    The Carbon Trust’s Offshore Wind Accelerator has published an update of the Floating LiDAR (light detection and ranging) Roadmap.

  • Atlantic herring
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    Fish spawning mapping for offshore efficiency

    2018-10-05T11:20:00Z

    A revised technique for mapping the spawning sites of Atlantic herring in the UK has been developed to protect fish during offshore wind farm construction, which could lead to a more efficient and low-cost development process.

  • ONYX InSight will monitor the Blyth Offshore windfarm project’s 8.3MW MHI Vestas V164 wind turbines Photo: ONYX InSight
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    Monitoring Blyth offshore windfarm efficiency

    2018-10-04T15:51:00Z

    A predictive maintenance provider has signed a three-year contract with EDF Renewables at Blyth Offshore Demonstrator windfarm to monitor the largest operational wind turbines.

  • The FMGC cast iron shells are being put to the test at the Centrales Nantes SEM-REV offshore test site Photo: Centrales Nantes
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    Offshore tests for subsea cable shells

    2018-10-01T13:23:00Z

    The third round of offshore tests for a new type of subsea electrical cable ballast have been undertaken at a depth of 30 metres on the Centrale Nantes SEM-REV offshore test site.

  • The MaRINET2 Training Programme aims to engage with industry and the community of up-and-coming researchers that are the future of the ocean renewable energy sector Photo: MaRINET2
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    MaRINET2 to host offshore renewables training

    2018-09-20T12:24:00Z

    Two new free-of-charge training courses will take place in November as part of the MaRINET2 project''s marine sector training programme.

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    World’s most powerful offshore turbines

    2018-09-17T15:55:00Z

    The 11 turbines recently unveiled at Vattenfall’s European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre offshore wind farm in Aberdeen Bay include two 8.8 megawatt (MW) turbines standing 191 meters tall, which are the most powerful operating anywhere in the world.

  • Rentel has finished the installation of its last two wind turbines in the Belgian North Sea Photo: Rentel
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    Rentel finishes installing North Sea turbines

    2018-09-17T13:07:00Z

    Rentel has finished the installation of its last two wind turbines in the Belgian North Sea with the help of the marine engineering expert DEME.

  • the new boat landing means the bottleneck that is familiar on service operations vessels has been removed
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    Boat landing cutting transfer bottlenecks

    2018-09-12T11:37:00Z

    The offshore wind industry’s largest floatel has cut an operational bottleneck with its new boat landing facility that is capable of transferring up to 150 turbine technicians into the field each day.

  • A poster has been designed for display on all OESVs to help crews spot the signs
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    ‘Understanding Fatigue’ campaign

    2018-08-24T12:08:00Z

    The UK’s National Workboat Association is launching an ‘Understanding Fatigue’ campaign to combat crewmember fatigue on offshore energy support vessels.