Offshore Renewables – Page 95

  • There will be up to £30m of direct Government support for offshore wind cost reduction over the next four years. Photo: Peter Barker
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    UK Energy White Paper boosts offshore wind

    2011-07-14T12:10:00Z

    The British Government published its long awaited Electricity Market Reform White Paper on Tuesday, a document pledging to increase the target for offshore wind power from 13GW to 18GW by 2020.

  • NWFTC will offer a comprehensive training service to the offshore wind farm sector.
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    National Wind Farm Training Centre

    2011-07-14T09:00:00Z

    The UK’s National Wind Farm Training Centre (NWFTC) announced its partnership With two colleges on the UK’s east and west coasts, Lowestoft and Barrow-in-Furness, at Offshore Wind 2011.

  • The Finnish built breakwater pontoons were delivered by ship to an anchorage four miles off Ramsgate, unloaded at sea and towed to the harbour.
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    Ramsgate breakwater for wind farm workboats

    2011-07-04T11:30:00Z

    Breakwater pontoon specialist Marinetek UK Ltd is celebrating the completion of a £1m project providing a new floating breakwater and sheltered berthing facilities for wind farm offshore support vessels in Ramsgate Royal Harbour.

  • Thanet Offshore Wind Farm, a Round 2 project now fully operational and providing a return on investment. Photo by Peter Barker
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    Make or break time for offshore wind

    2011-06-30T10:59:00Z

    An industry wide survey into the offshore wind industry describes the coming few years as a ‘make or break’ time.

  • The new Momac Offshore Transport System features a freely adjustable robot arm which allows for the safe transfer of personnel onto wind turbines, compensating for vertical differential movements of up to 3.2m.
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    Safe transfers for people and goods

    2011-06-30T09:00:00Z

    Voith Turbo Marine Engineering has developed the Voith Offshore Shuttle for wind farms with a special feature, the Momac Offshore Transport System installed at the bow.

  • SeaEnergy is now looking at wind farm support operations.
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    SeaEnergy moves over to maintenance

    2011-06-28T09:00:00Z

    SeaEnergy, faced with the steep bills for wind farm projects, is selling its renewables construction stake and is moving its focus to the maintenance side of the business.

  • The Dutch registered cargo vessel Deo Volente delivered EMEC's large cable reel from Norway to Fendercare's new facility at Lyness.
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    Orkneys pulling in renewables support

    2011-06-25T12:00:00Z

    The first company to establish a permanent shore-based facility at Orkney''s new marine renewables base has secured its first client, the European Marine Energy Centre.

  • The first Tidal Transit crew transfer vessel, due in October, will provide up to 12 technicians with beds for the night whilst taking them up to 150 miles offshore.
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    Seafood to wind farms for Tidal Transit

    2011-06-23T17:01:00Z

    A new offshore wind farm support operation based in Norfolk UK has an interesting history, with its origins in fishing and restaurants.

  • Carbon emission cuts of 50% from 1990 levels by 2027 have been unveiled by the UK government. Photo by Peter Barker
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    UK government commits to fourth carbon budget

    2011-06-23T17:00:00Z

    In a decision that will be of relevance to the marine renewable industry, the UK government has broadly accepted the recommendations of the independent Committee on Climate Change (CCC) for the fourth carbon budget.

  • Principle Power, alongside partners EDP, InovCapital, Vestas and others, has recently signed an agreement for the deployment of the first full scale WindFloat, with a Vestas V80 – 2.0 MW turbine, off the coast of Portugal later this year.
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    Floating Wind Turbines – New Developments in a Buoyant Market

    2011-06-13T15:45:00Z

    In recent years there have been two significant trends in the wind industry - developers are searching for higher quality wind resources and turbines are getting larger and larger.

  • The ‘flotel’ Wind Ambition has been deployed on site at the Sheringham Shoal offshore wind farm.
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    Floating hotel for offshore wind farm

    2011-06-13T12:48:00Z

    The crane vessel Oleg Strashnov has arrived back at the Sheringham Shoal offshore wind farm site from Holland after picking up a further supply of monopoles to resume foundation installations.

  • An artist’s impression of the proposed Vestas wind turbine manufacturing facility at Sheerness in Kent UK. Image: Vestas
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    Sheerness wind turbine manufacturing base

    2011-05-18T20:56:00Z

    Following Siemens’ decision to manufacture offshore wind turbines at the UK port of Hull, further evidence of the industry’s desire to establish manufacturing facilities in the UK has arrived.

  • An artist’s impression of an array of four SeaGen tidal turbines, such as may be deployed at Kyle Rhea.
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    UK Government backs MCT for EU funding

    2011-05-18T20:56:00Z

    An application from the UK''s Marine Current Turbines to secure money from the European Union’s New Entrant Reserve (NER) scheme has been approved by the UK’s Department of Energy & Climate Change.

  • The WindSentinel can be taken from location to location, providing a flexible assessment device.
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    Taking the sting out of wind assessment

    2011-05-18T10:00:00Z

    A new device aims to reduce the major challenge inherent in offshore wind resource assessment, the gathering and validating of data.

  • A tidal turbine at the Voith Hydro factory.
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    Clean energy for Korea

    2011-05-13T12:00:00Z

    A European company is about to help Korea utilise the enormous potential of clean, CO2-free energy from the oceans.

  • MPI Adventure is seen arriving in the port of Harwich on Monday. Photo: Paul Bell
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    MPI Adventure arrives in the UK

    2011-05-12T12:00:00Z

    The construction of offshore wind farms in European waters has received a significant boost with the arrival at the UK port of Harwich on Monday of the first of two dedicated wind turbine installation vessels (WTIV).

  • Grimsby docks and the dock tower. A wind farm operation and maintenance base will be added to the area this year.
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    Favourable winds blow into Grimsby

    2011-05-12T11:59:00Z

    Centrica, the energy group whose businesses include British Gas, has signed a long term lease that will enable it to build an operation and maintenance base at Grimsby docks to serve its wind farms.

  • The DeepCWind floating wind turbine scale model in front of MARIN’s new dedicated wind set-up. Photo: MARIN
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    MARIN moves closer to DeepCWind

    2011-05-05T10:41:00Z

    The Maritime Research Institute Netherlands (MARIN) is in the closing stages of testing three different floating wind turbine concepts for the DeepCwind Consortium (USA), led by the University of Maine.

  • Stril Explorer will work in the offshore renewable energy market as well as the subsea sector.
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    Deal delivers offshore renewables vessel

    2011-04-28T12:37:00Z

    Aberdeen UK based SeaHold GeoShips Limited (GeoShips) has chartered its first new multi-purpose offshore vessel to support the growing offshore renewable energy market and the subsea sector.

  • Targets of at least 600MW of offshore wind and 300MW of tidal stream generating capacity for Northern Ireland are proposed to be in place by 2020. Photo by Peter Barker
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    Northern Ireland prepares for renewables

    2011-04-21T11:51:00Z

    Two major bodies have published a design discussion document for the development of offshore renewable energy projects in Northern Ireland waters.