Offshore Renewables – Page 69

  • The design features two vertical axis water turbines (VAWTs), which are placed on either side of a patented flow-accelerating body
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    GKinetic Energy launches novel tidal energy device

    2016-02-03T15:30:00Z

    Late last year, Irish company GKinetic Energy deployed its innovative OC1 tidal energy device in Limerick Docks. So how exactly does the new technology work? What challenges do the project team face in deploying the device? And what are the prospects for its future roll out and ...

  • Yashwant Sinha
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    New software tool aims to cut maintenance costs for offshore wind turbines

    2016-02-03T15:10:00Z

    Researchers at Robert Gordon University (RGU) in Aberdeen are developing a software tool that aims to ''dramatically cut maintenance costs for offshore wind turbines.''

  • Sotenäs will be the first ever multiple unit wave power plant
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    Sotenäs wave energy plant reaches grid connection milestone

    2016-02-03T14:59:00Z

    Last December, the innovative Sotenäs Wave Energy Plant was successfully connected to the Swedish National Grid via a subsea cable. So, how exactly does the Sotenäs Plant work? And what plans are there for the future development of the device?

  • Pembroke Port in West Wales where the device is being tested
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    Wave energy convertor milestone

    2016-01-26T10:22:00Z

    Marine Power Systems (MPS), a Swansea, UK-based company that is developing convertor technologies to harness wave energy, has recently completed testing of its prototype pump, a key subsystem of the company’s WaveSub wave energy converter (WEC).

  • Floating wind power test site at BIMEP
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    First Seanergy set for Biarritz

    2016-01-25T16:28:00Z

    Seanergy, an international business convention on Marine Renewable Energy, will take place for the very first time on June 1-2 2016 in Biarritz, France (Halle d’Iraty).

  • The actual mechanical connection of the two GreenLink halves takes less than two hours
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    Sabella GreenLink connection

    2016-01-25T12:41:00Z

    Denmark-headquartered MacArtney Group has provided a connectivity solution to help French marine renewable energy company Sabella connect a tidal turbine to an onshore grid.

  • The WindFloat base is fitted with patented water entrapment plates at the base of each column and a patented hull-trim system that distributes water ballast between the three columns
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    Consortium to build Portuguese floating wind farm

    2016-01-20T16:20:00Z

    An international consortium has been formed to fund and develop a commercial floating wind farm in the Atlantic waters off the coast of Portugal near Porto. This development follows the successful trials of a prototype floating generator unit developed by WindFloat which has been operating for the past four years.

  • 'MPI Resolution' is designed to transport, lift, install and decommission components
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    Met mast removal contract

    2016-01-15T12:06:00Z

    MPI Offshore, a subsidiary of Netherlands-headquartered Vroon Groop, has announced that wind-turbine-installation vessel ‘MPI Resolution’ has been contracted by RWE for the removal of the IJmuiden Met Mast.

  • The company's AR series turbines have been developed by Lockheed Martin
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    Atlantis Resources building UK tidal power portfolio

    2015-12-17T11:44:00Z

    ScottishPower Renewables has joined forces with Singapore-headquartered Atlantis Resources to establish the largest tidal stream portfolio in the UK.

  • Over 500 delegates registered for the 13 events
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    DEME’s offshore wind road show

    2015-12-16T16:14:00Z

    After December’s closing event in London, DEME, the Belgian dredging and marine construction giant is looking back on a very successful series of nationwide supply chain events in the UK to strengthen its local involvement in the offshore wind industry.

  • The Nordsee One project will be executed by the world’s biggest jack-up vessel 'Innovation'
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    Nordsee One construction commenced

    2015-12-16T16:03:00Z

    GeoSea, part of the Belgian dredging, environmental and marine engineering group, DEME, has announced that it has begun the construction works for the offshore windfarm Nordsee One in the German North Sea.

  • The wind farm is due to be situated 2 miles from Mr Trump's golf course (Photo: www.trumpgolfscotland.com)
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    Trumped on windfarm appeal

    2015-12-16T12:09:00Z

    It’s not often that ‘Maritime Journal’ gets to comment on such world news as US presidential candidates, but Scottish offshore wind made the international headlines today, due to Donald Trump, the leading Republican candidate for the US presidency losing a court appeal over permission for an offshore windfarm.

  • Extensive testing of a quarter scale model has been carried out in Belgian waters
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    EMEC berth for Laminaria

    2015-12-16T11:00:00Z

    Belgian wave energy developer Laminaria has signed up for a position at EMEC’s grid-connected wave test site at Billia Croo, off the west coast of Orkney, UK.

  • Dr Gareth Stockman and Dr Graham Foster
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    Welsh company secures EU funds for novel wave energy technology

    2015-11-20T16:44:00Z

    In late October, Swansea, UK-based wave energy company Marine Power Systems (MPS) announced that it had secured £2 million of European Union (EU) funds for the development and testing of a scaled prototype of its innovative WaveSub device.

  • ADCP rigs just prior to deployment off Fairhead, NE Antrim coast, N.Ireland
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    MOREDATAS Project

    2015-11-20T16:28:00Z

    Five companies based at locations in Ireland, France and the UK have announced plans to collaborate on an innovative project to help limit the risks faced by developers of tidal and wave energy initiatives around the north western European coast.

  • 1/2 scale model wave tank testing
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    CorPower commences third round testing of wave energy device

    2015-11-20T16:13:00Z

    Swedish wave energy company CorPower Ocean has successfully completed a €6.5m funding round for the further development and testing of its novel wave energy converters.

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    Baltic heavy lift support

    2015-11-20T12:12:00Z

    Global independent offshore and onshore survey company UTEC NCS Survey, was recently awarded a contract for heavy lift support services for a major windfarm project in the Baltic Sea.

  • Bluerise test lab at Delft University l-r: Berend Jan Kleute and Joost Kirkenier
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    Dutch pipe curing technology enables offshore OTEC

    2015-11-17T14:57:00Z

    Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) is scaling up. This summer, the largest power plant to date was connected to the grid at Big Island of Hawaii, producing 100 kilowatts.

  • (L-R) Willem van der Ben, certification manager Netherlands at Bureau Veritas Netherlands, Bertrand van Leersum, general manager WELink, and John Stavenuiter, director AMC
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    Wind Energy Link earns quality label

    2015-11-13T17:17:00Z

    Wind Energy Link B.V., the Netherlands-headquartered global asset management, wind and logistics joint venture, has become the first in its field to receive the AMC ISO 55 001 quality certificate of product approval.