Offshore Renewables – Page 56
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NewsBoat landing cutting transfer bottlenecks
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.
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News‘Understanding Fatigue’ campaign
The UK’s National Workboat Association is launching an ‘Understanding Fatigue’ campaign to combat crewmember fatigue on offshore energy support vessels.
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NewsRecord power for tidal stream turbine
Scotrenewables Tidal Power’s first 2MW floating tidal stream turbine has clocked up over 3GWh of renewable electricity in its first year of testing at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Orkney, Scotland.
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NewsNew rotor blade access system
Wind turbine rotor blade access systems specialist, Gebr. Käufer GmbH Befahrtechnik has introduced its new K-BP-4 BAS system at WindEnergy Hamburg.
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NewsCanary Islands wave energy
Swedish renewable energy company Seabased has joined in a venture with the United Arab Emirates’ company Infocom Connect to develop a wave energy projects in the Canary Islands.
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NewsNavantia floating turbine progress
Major Spanish shipyard group Navantia has started the construction of the floating foundation for the first full scale floating wind turbine that will be installed at the Portuguese WindFloat Atlantic project.
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NewsNWA launches Workboat Apprenticeship
The National Workboat Association-developed Workboat Crewmember Apprenticeship standard has been finalised with funding confirmed ready to help train the next generation of UK workboat crews.
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NewsReport predicts growing market for ocean energy
The European Commission has published a report on wave and tidal energy, which forecasts that global installed capacity ''could reach in the region of 3.9GW by 2030 - assuming current levels of political support.''
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NewsBelgian windfarm project merger gets go ahead
The European Commission has approved the merger project Seamade NV which is responsible for both the development of the Mermaid and Seastar offshore windfarms in Belgium.
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NewsAlpha Offshore awarded blade repair contract
Alpha Offshore Service A/S has been awarded a contract with NoordzeeWind, a Joint Venture between utility company Nuon and Shell, for blade repair on the Offshore Windfarm Egmond aan Zee (OWEZ).
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NewsIRENA report calls for international offshore wind standards
IRENA has published a report which, amongst other things, concludes that ''offshore wind energy stands on the cusp of rapid and widespread growth’ reports Andrew Williams.
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NewsEast of England offshore wind promoted
A new brochure bringing together the latest East of England statistics, case studies of business success and maps pinpointing existing and future offshore wind farms has been launched at Global Offshore Wind.
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Suction bucket jackets for Borkum Riffgrund 2
The final load of foundations for Borkum Riffgrund 2 have left Szczecin, concluding a ST3 Offshore project for Danish energy concern Ørsted.
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NewsHorns Rev 3 transition piece shipments
Germany’s SAL Heavy Lift has signed a contract for shipment of a total of 49 transition pieces for the Horns Rev 3 Offshore Wind Farm.
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NewsInnovation centre aims to boost offshore wind collaboration
A consortium of UK organisations has announced that it had secured £4 million in funding from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) to build the Aura Innovation Centre (AIC).
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NewsConsultant appointed for Horns Rev 3 windfarm
EDS HV Group has been appointed as the high voltage consultant by Vattenfall for the Horns Rev 3 windfarm development.
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NewsComputer game simulation technology for wave energy
A PhD student at the University of Manchester has unveiled an innovative new method and software for using computer game technology to carry out complex scientific simulations in the wave energy sector.
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NewsOceanflow gets go ahead for FLOWSPA
Offshore renewables developer Oceanflow has been successful in winning Horizon 2020 SME support reports Dag Pike.
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NewsWinning the battle to reduce the cost of offshore wind
The cost of offshore wind has fallen dramatically over a relatively short timescale. Peter Barker explores some of the factors that have contributed to this.
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NewsUK tidal and wave energy can offer significant economic benefits
The Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult has published a new evidence-based assessment that shows the UK’s tidal stream and wave energy can significantly boost the economy and meet the requirements of the UK Government’s ‘Triple Test’ for emerging technology support.
