Offshore Renewables – Page 93

  • Sea Energy’s design will be based on Ulstein’s PX105 hull and an Ampelmann access system. Image: Sea Energy
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    Boost for SeaEnergy wind farm business

    2011-12-16T09:00:00Z

    Energy ventures company SeaEnergy PLC has won Scottish Enterprise funding support of over £88,000 for development of their offshore wind farm support business.

  • The Mobimar 18 Wind will be classed to operate in sea state 4.0 Hs, providing safe transfers for service engineers in significant wave heights up to 2.5m.
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    Trimaran wind farm boat due from Finland

    2011-12-13T10:05:00Z

    Finland’s Mobimar Ltd will delivers its first trimaran crew transfer vessel to Meriaura Ltd in March of next year.

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    Lindø launch for turbine prototype assembly

    2011-12-08T16:02:00Z

    Vestas has announced that assembly of the prototype and pre-series versions of their new 7MW turbine will take place at Lindø in Denmark.

  • The versatile Teknicraft design will carry 12 passengers and up to five tons of cargo at up to 35 knots.
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    Scots yard to build NZ wind farm design

    2011-12-08T16:00:00Z

    Scottish boatbuilder Buckie Shipyard has entered an agreement with Veecraft Marine of Capetown SA to be the UK builder of the Teknicraft design of Wind Farm Service Vessels.

  • Damen’s Fast Crew Supplier 2610 design has already transferred engineers to offshore wind turbines in wave heights of 1.9m.
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    Dutch duo do workboat deal at EWEA

    2011-12-01T12:11:00Z

    Dutch companies Damen Shipyards and SeaZip Offshore Service signed a contract at the EWEA exhibition and conference in Amsterdam on this month for two Fast Crew Suppliers of the 2610 type.

  • An artist’s rendering of the new facility which Fendercare Marine will open at Great Yarmouth.
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    Renewables O&M facilities growth at Yarmouth

    2011-12-01T09:00:00Z

    Fendercare Marine, a member of James Fisher & Sons plc, has announced plans to open a second offshore marine energy O&M facility in Great Yarmouth UK early next year.

  • Alstom’s new Haliade 150-6MW wind turbine. Photo: Alstom
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    French ports for wind manufacturing

    2011-11-24T11:27:00Z

    Engineering giant Alstom has revealed further details of its ambitions for offshore wind turbine manufacturing in France.

  • Deeper water and locations further offshore will demand a variety of foundation designs. (All photos by Peter Barker)
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    Challenges of scale greet UK Round 3 wind

    2011-11-18T09:00:00Z

    It will soon be two years since the announcement of the successful bidders for the UK’s Round 3 offshore wind farm zones.

  • MPI Discovery has enhanced features based on operational experience gained during the eight years MPI Resolution has been working.
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    MPI Discovery delivered and Europe bound

    2011-11-18T09:00:00Z

    MPI Offshore Limited (MPI) has taken delivery of the MPI Discovery, the second of the organisation’s two wind turbine installation vessels (WTIVs) to be built at the Cosco Qidong Shipyard in China.

  • SeaGen, in Northern Ireland’s Strangford Lough, has to date generated over 2.7GWh of electricity to the grid.
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    Siemens ups stake in offshore renewables

    2011-11-17T09:32:00Z

    Siemens has increased its share in British tidal energy company Marine Current Turbines Ltd to 45%.

  • Despite the ongoing financial crisis, offshore wind turbine installations are expected to be up by some 13% this year on the 2010 figures.
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    Offshore wind blows strong in Amsterdam

    2011-11-17T09:29:00Z

    As Europe faces the danger of recession, the offshore wind industry is planning massive growth.

  • RWE  npower renewable has already placed site survey contracts worth in excess of £1m with local vessel owners, including in the Grimsby area.
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    Renewables Network boosts Humber region

    2011-11-17T09:00:00Z

    An energy company developing a North Sea wind farm has signalled its commitment to local contractors by becoming the latest member of a networking organisation.

  • Harland and Wolff’s image of the Universal Foundation Met Mast.
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    Suction Bucket innovation at Dogger Bank

    2011-11-16T09:00:00Z

    The Forewind consortium will employ an innovative new foundation design concept when it installs two meteorological masts on the Dogger Bank offshore wind farm zone.

  • The proposed tidal energy scheme consists of up to nine SeaGen turbines in an area between the Skerries group of rocks and islands and Carmel Head, about 1 km off the Anglesey coast.
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    Progress on Wales’ first tidal energy farm

    2011-11-16T09:00:00Z

    Plans by Marine Current Turbines and its project partner RWE npower renewables to install and operate Wales’s first ever tidal energy farm have moved a step closer.

  • The project scope involves determining the acoustic impact associated with installing and operating the Oyster device.
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    The quiet life of a seabed Oyster

    2011-11-15T09:00:00Z

    Kongsberg Maritime Ltd in the UK has been awarded a contract with wave energy technology provider Aquamarine Power to carry out underwater noise assessments relating to its Oyster wave energy device.

  • The turbine unit is semi-buoyant and can be easily towed to and from the point of operation, minimising installation and maintenance costs by avoiding the need for specialist vessels.
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    Tidal turbine feeds 100 MWh to grid

    2011-11-03T10:01:00Z

    Rolls-Royce has achieved a milestone in the deployment of tidal energy technology with confirmation that its prototype tidal turbine has fed over 100 megawatt hours of electrical power into the national grid.

  • The installation vessel can transport and install up to six complete sets of turbines of the 3.6 MW class at the same time.
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    Wind farm wins for Birkenhead and Mostyn

    2011-10-31T12:45:00Z

    RWE Innogy signed agreements earlier this month for the use of areas at Birkenhead port near Liverpool which it will use as a base port for constructing the Gwynt y Môr offshore wind farm.

  • 19 North East UK companies are coming together to win work in the marine renewable energy sector. Photo: North News & Pictures Ltd.
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    Tyneside's renewables ‘Super Group’

    2011-10-27T16:10:00Z

    A&P Tyne is part of a newly launched North East UK ‘Super Group’ formed to inform global business about how the region’s deep talent pool is positioned in a clear growth area for marine renewable energy.

  • The Ingenium installation barge in full turbine configuration. Image courtesy of Ingenium AS.
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    New turbine foundation installation vessel

    2011-10-27T16:08:00Z

    With the wind farm industry eyeing the first examples of the crop of newbuilding turbine installation vessels being delivered, other interesting design concepts are also emerging.

  • ECCC members and local officials visited wave and tidal energy sites on Orkney this week. EMEC MD Neil Kermode is on the left end and ECCC chairman Tim Yeo MP is second from right end. Photo courtesy of EMEC.
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    Climate Change Committee visits Orkney

    2011-10-20T12:21:00Z

    Scotland’s marine energy industry was the focus of the Government''s Energy and Climate Change Select Committee (ECCC)''s investigation into wave and tidal renewable energy on Tuesday this week.