Offshore Renewables – Page 71
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NewsWikinger cabling
The Italian Prysmian Group has chartered Global Marine Systems Limited’s cable-laying vessel, ‘C.S. Sovereign’, from mid-2016 into early 2017. The vessel’s remit will be to install inter array cables at the German Offshore wind farm that is currently estimated to be providing power for nearly a quarter of a ...
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NewsPaimpol–Bréhat agreement
Natural Power and sister company SeaRoc have joined forces to develop their offshore energy capabilities in France.
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NewsFrench port out to catch the wind
St Nazaire is laying foundations, quite literally, for its future role as an offshore wind hub – but it’s not without its challenges, including politics, investment and last but not least: scale.
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NewsUniting the UK Wind Energy Industry
RenewableUK 2015 brings together the UK’s wind energy industry to the ACC Exhibition Centre in the vibrant city of Liverpool from 6 – 8 October 2015, to celebrate another year of success, innovation, collaboration and - most importantly - resilience.
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NewsTidal generator on storm barrier
What is claimed to be the first 1 MW tidal array in the world has been installed on the Oosterschelde storm barrier, part of the famous Dutch Delta Works.
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NewsMLiner renewables solution
Founded in 2011 by former engineers from the STX shipyard in St-Nazaire, GEPS Techno is a French start-up company that is focussing on renewable energy projects.
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Wind forecasting workshop
The EWEA Technology Workshop "Wind Power Forecasting- Meeting End -users Needs", takes place 1-2 October in Leuven, Belgium.
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NewsGemini awards 5 year maintenance contract
Belgian Offshore maintenance contractors Offshore & Wind Assistance (OWA) and German EWE Offshore Service & Solutions GmbH (EWE-OSS) have been contracted to ensure that the Gemini offshore wind park operates smoothly.
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Dong deal
Danish headquartered renewables giant Dong Energy has announced that wind industry service provider CWind, will provide corrosion protection, latchway inspections and snagging to Dong’s Borkum Riffgrund 1 wind farm (offshore Germany) in addition to the temporary power services it supplied earlier this year.
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NewsABB reaches offshore milestone
ABB has reached a major milestone following the installation of DolWin beta, the world’s most powerful offshore converter station in the North Sea.
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NewsConference focuses on building an industry without borders
Renewable energy plays an indispensable role in meeting rising energy demand. The 6th annual Offshore WIND Conference (OWC), which is co-located with Offshore Energy 2015, focuses on “building an industry without borders”.
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NewsInter-array cables
Italian headquartered Prysmian Group has been awarded contracts by Nobelwind NV, an offshore wind farm developer, to supply wind turbine inter array cables for the Bligh Bank 2 offshore wind farm, located off the coast of Zeebrugge in Belgium.
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NewsOffshore wind – heading for subsidy free
An independent analysis from BVG Associates, commissioned by Statkraft UK has produced an upbeat forecast of the industry’s future with the prospect of being subsidy-free and competitive with CCGT.
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NewsOcean Energy Europe tops 100 members
Brussels headquartered Ocean Energy Europe, an industry group for ocean renewable energy in Europe, recently exceeded 100 members, when Wavepower, Marine Power Systems and Mojo Maritime joined. They join a growing list of industry representatives uniting behind a common plan for industrialising the ocean energy sector.
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NewsFugro now offers cable laying
Fugro is expanding its offering with the installation of a compact, custom-made, cable-lay spread onboard its trenching vessel, ‘Fugro Saltire’.
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NewsAnother O&M vessel concept
A new vessel concept from German partners Heavylift@Sea and SeaRenergy Offshore, the OAV (Offshore Assistance Vessel), could promise a further development in the field of Service Operation Vessels.
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NewsFrench tidal demonstrator being installed
Plans are well advanced to install a prototype tidal generator off the French coast in the Raz Blanchard, the channel between the Cherbourg Peninsular and the Island of Alderney.
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NewsPLAT-O powers up
Sustainable Marine Energy says its PLAT-O system has become the first tidal energy system to generate power off the south coast of England. In doing so, SME has demonstrated that the cost of tidal energy is rapidly coming down with systems like PLAT-O coming on stream.
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NewsSchottel supplies to MeyGen
German specialist Schottel Hydro has announced that it will manufacture and deliver the variable pitch hub for the AR1500 turbine for Phase 1a of the Scotland-based MeyGen tidal energy project under contract to Lockheed Martin.
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European regions lead the charge on ocean energy
The EU’s Commission for the Environment, Climate Change and Energy of the Committee of the Regions (CoR) has adopted a report confirming that the ocean energy sector will make an “important contribution...to meeting the future energy needs of the European Union”.
