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  • UK: Tritech’s Marine Mammal Detection System Shows Good Results

    3 June 2012
    Environment

    Gemini SeaTec provides an early warning of the presence of marine mammals in the vicinity of marine current turbine structures. The Gemini SeaTec system has been successfully field tested on the Marine Current Turbine (MCT) SeaGen installation in Strangford Lough, Northern Ireland, overseen and tested by the Sea Mammal Research Unit (SMRU) Ltd. Launched at […]

  • Wikborg Rein: No Good News for European OW Industry in 2016

    17 December 2015
    Business & Finance

    European offshore wind industry will see a sharp decline in new grid-connected capacity at the beginning of 2016, which will affect all levels of the offshore wind supply chain, according to the Norway-based law company Wikborg Rein. The short-term outlook is challening due to recent slump in global oil prices, which has led to an oversupply of vessels across […]

  • Fabricom Bags Nordsee Ost Foundation Maintenance Contract

    3 April 2014

    RWE Innogy has commissioned Dutch company Fabricom Offshore Services BV to maintain the foundations of the Nordsee Ost offshore wind farm over the coming four years. The contract includes the inspection and maintenance of the 49 jacket foundations of the wind turbines and the transformer substation, together with the monopile foundations of the measurement mast. […]

  • MeteoGroup Signs Lightning Deal with Sheringham Shoal

    7 October 2014

    Scira Offshore Energy Limited has chosen MeteoGroup to provide comprehensive lightning forecasting, consultancy and monitoring services for its Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm. Lightning poses a serious risk to the maintenance personnel who travel daily to and from an onshore base to work on the inherently exposed 80 metre high wind turbine towers. Therefore, accurate […]

  • Top news, August 17 – 23, 2015

    23 August 2015

    Tidal Energy Today Staff has compiled the top news from tidal and wave energy industry from August 17 – 23, 2015. DNV GL spins Alstom’s Oceade 18 tidal turbine DNV GL has issued a ‘Statement of Feasibility’ for Alstom’s Oceade 1.4 MW tidal turbine. DNV GL will work with Alstom to review and approve design […]

  • Top news, January 18 – 24, 2016

    24 January 2016

    Tidal Energy Today has compiled the top news from tidal and wave energy industry from January 18 – 24, 2016. Paimpol-Bréhat project: DCNS installs first turbine The first 500 kW tidal turbine has been deployed at its planned location, off Brittany, France, and the operation took half an hour to complete. It was installed using […]

  • Top news, June 27 – July 3, 2016

    3 July 2016
    Business & Finance

    Tidal Energy Today has compiled the top news from tidal and wave energy industry from June 27 to July 3, 2016.

  • Australia to map tidal energy potential

    13 July 2017
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has provided funding for the study that will map and explore the future potential of tidal energy resource in Australia.

  • Top news, Oct 31 – Nov 6, 2016

    6 November 2016
    Business & Finance

    Tidal Energy Today has compiled the top news from tidal and wave energy industry from October 31 until November 6, 2016.

  • USA: MMI Releases Version 2.0 of Its Offshore Wind Farm Analysis Software

    24 January 2013

    MMI Engineering has released version 2.0 of its offshore wind farm analysis software WEP-View (Wind Energy Potential – View). This software has been developed as a response to an industry demand for a tool to assess the electricity and revenue generation potential in an offshore wind farm. WEP-View helps developers optimize the layout of a […]

  • NWFTC Wins Prestigious Trade Association Accreditation (UK)

    2 November 2011
    Business & Finance

      National Wind Farm Training Centre, which provides training to the wind energy industry, has been awarded RenewablesUK’s renowned Training Standards and Accreditation for promoting and delivering best practice health and safety training and competence standards. The RenewableUK training standards are only intended to address the most significant health and safety training issues as they […]

  • Schneider Tailors Switchgear Offering to Suit Offshore Wind

    18 September 2018
    Research & Development, Storage, Technology

    Schneider Electric is launching a new 72.5kV variant of its WI switchgear range, developed to optimise the design, safety, cost and reliability of 72.5kV electrical systems in offshore wind farms.

  • SSE Goes Solo at Seagreen

    25 September 2018
    Business & Finance

    Scottish utility SSE plc is taking full ownership of the 1.5GW Seagreen offshore wind projects under development by Seagreen Wind Energy Limited, in which it currently has a 50% share.

  • DW: Cumulative Offshore Wind Capacity Expected to Reach 74GW by 2025

    23 March 2016
    Research & Development

    Following a record 2015, the offshore wind industry will see fewer additions in 2016. However, the level of projects entering construction and the diversity of locations expected in 2016 bodes well for a larger global market in the years to come, Douglas-Westwood (DW) said. Capacity additions will grow significantly post-2016, peaking at 9.2GW in 2022, according to DW’s […]

  • CSBC-DEME reaches FID for first Taiwan-built offshore wind installation vessel

    25 June 2020
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    CSBC-DEME Wind Engineering (CDWE) has reached the final investment decision (FID) for the construction of Green Jade, the first Taiwan-built floating heavy-lift offshore wind installation vessel. CDWE, a joint venture of DEME Offshore and Taiwanese shipbuilder CSBC, informed in April that it had initiated the contract for early works and ordering of critical packages. The […]

  • Foundations Works at German Amrumbank West OWF Set for This Fall

    14 August 2013
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    E.ON has begun the construction phase of German Amrumbank West offshore wind farm, the company said in its report for the first half of 2013. Installation of foundations at the project’s site is scheduled for this fall (most likely in October). In April, the company started the preparatory work for constructing the offshore wind farm […]

  • BAM Bags Gravity Base Foundation Contract from EDF

    7 June 2016
    Equipment

    BAM has been awarded a contract to design, fabricate and install five full-size gravity base foundations for wind turbines off the Northumberland coast, UK. The contract has been awarded to BAM by EDF Energy Renewables via SPV Blyth Offshore Demonstrator Ltd. The foundation design will utilize ‘self-installing’ technology, which has been developed by two BAM companies, BAM […]

  • RWE Innogy to Install Infield Cables on Nordsee Ost OWF (Germany)

    3 July 2013
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    VSMC has been contracted by German firm RWE Innogy to lay and bury the infield cables of the Nordsee Ost offshore wind farm in Germany. Recently, VSMC also won contracts from E.ON and DONG Energy to install the export cables of two wind farms along the English coast, in partnership with Boskalis Offshore Subsea Contracting. […]

  • NGI monitoring kit for Kriegers Flak foundations

    18 May 2020
    Operations & Maintenance

    Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI) has won the contract for a structural measurement campaign at Vattenfall’s Kriegers Flak offshore wind farm. The scope of the contract covers the design, production, and installation of instrumentation on two offshore wind turbines which will monitor the monopiles and the transition pieces. The instrumentation system supplied by NGI will provide […]

  • Drydocks World cuts into HKZ Beta steel

    28 May 2020
    Project & Tenders

    Dubai-based Drydocks World has held a steel-cutting ceremony for the Hollandse Kust Zuid Beta offshore substation topside. This is the third topside that Drydocks World will be constructing for Petrofac and end-client TenneT, and the second project for the Hollandse Kust Zuid zone. The 700 MW High Voltage Alternating Current (HVAC) platform will, together with […]

  • Arkona OWF Construction Starts with Foundations Installation

    24 August 2017
    Operations & Maintenance

    E.ON has informed that the construction of the Arkona offshore wind farm in the German Baltic Sea has began with the first foundations laid in the seabed. A total of 60 so-called monopiles will be installed for the Arkona wind park before the transition pieces, towers and turbines are mounted on them. The foundation for the […]

  • Applied Acoustics Presents S-Boom in Vegas, USA

    6 November 2012
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    The latest Applied Acoustics’ S-Boom sub-bottom profiling system is making quite an impact at the SEG show in Las Vegas. Its novel design, three boomer plates connected in series on a single catamaran, has already proved hugely successful in Northern European waters so it’s now being introduced to US companies as an ideal tool for […]

  • UK: EOWDC Could Save GBP 45 Billion, Says Vattenfall

    7 June 2012
    Authorities & Government

    Vattenfall, developer of wind energy project offshore Aberdeen Bay, stated that this project could save GBP 45 billion of renewable energy production costs, writes the Press Association. Vattenfall is one of the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre developers planning to deploy 11 wind turbines offshore Donald Trump’s luxury golf resort. US billionaire is leading a […]

  • Top News of the Week May 11-17, 2015

    17 May 2015

    EDF, Dong, WPD Seek Contractors for Wind Turbine Installation on Three French OWFs Eolien Maritime France, a consortium made of EDF EN France, Dong Energy Power Holding and WPD Offshore GmbH, has issued an invitation to tender for wind turbine installation on three French offshore wind sites. Statoil to Set Up Renewable Energy Business Division […]

  • Sabik to Mark Nordergründe OWF

    17 July 2015

    Carmanah Technologies Corporation’s (Carmanah) subsidiary Sabik GmbH (Sabik Offshore), which was acquired on July 2, 2015, has been awarded a contract to provide a marking system for the Nordergründe offshore wind project. The company will provide marine lights, monitoring and control for all 18 turbines. Sabik Offshore will start working immediately and plans to complete 50% this year […]