Research & Development
Top News of the Week, 14 – 20 November 2016
Iemants and Jan De Nul Win Kriegers Flak OSS Foundations Work Energinet.dk and 50Hertz Transmission GmbH have awarded Iemants and Jan De Nul Group with a contract to construct, install, ballast and protect gravity based foundations (GBFs) for two offshore substations. ABB Unveils Lightweight, AC Pla
Ireland gets resource assessment for AMETS wave test site
Researchers from the Centre for Marine and Renewable Energy (MaREI) and NUI Galway have produced a paper that provides a detailed assessment of the wave energy resource at the Atlantic Marine Energy Test Site (AMETS), located west of Belmullet, Ireland.
Mutriku wave plant installs monitoring equipment
Mutriku wave energy plant has been equipped with pressure sensor and data logger as part of the EU-funded OPERA project.
ORE Catapult calls for wind and ocean R&D chief
Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult has issued a call to the country’s universities seeking to appoint a new scientific chair in wind and ocean conditions.
TLP hires THA for Cardiff tidal lagoon fish study
Tidal Lagoon Power (TLP) has hired Turnpenny Horsfield Associates (THA) to conduct a scoping study and trials related to fish tracking as part of the Cardiff tidal lagoon development.
Fugro Accumulates 70 Years of Subsea Motion Data
Fugro’s DeepData subsea instrument pods have been collecting motion data on subsea structures for a collective total of over 25,000 days, equating to over 70 years. The first deployments were in the North Sea followed by other worldwide locations including the Gulf of Mexico, Canada, Australia, Medi
Carnegie seeks Commercial Analyst
Carnegie Wave Energy is looking to expand its team with a job opening for a newly created position of Commercial Analyst.
NEF to release action plan for UK coast revitalization
London-based think tank, New Economics Foundation (NEF), will today launch a 20-point action plan under which it envisions the creation of 160,000 new jobs as part of the revitalization of UK coasts.
Seals vs tidal turbines collision risks research goes further
The research undertaken by ABPmer and SMRU Consulting has presented improved assessments of the risk of collision between harbour seals and tidal turbines using the most up to date information available on how harbour seals use tidally active areas.
NOC Sets Up Robotics Workshops
The National Oceanography Centre (NOC) is hosting a programme of five workshops, called ‘A Year of Autonomy’, with aim to address the common challenges faced by robotic systems on land, sea and air by encouraging shared learning and collaboration. These challenges include; the development of artific
ABB Unveils Lightweight, AC Platform-Free HVDC Solution
ABB has presented a new, compact, high-voltage direct current (HVDC) solution for offshore wind which is said to cut the weight and the volume of an offshore platform by more than half and eliminate the need for alternating current (AC) substation platforms. ABB’s new HVDC solution eliminates the ne
MAKE: Political Turmoil Dents Global Wind Growth Outlook
A host of political events have had a negative impact on global wind power growth expectations through 2025, MAKE said in its Q4/2016 Global Wind Power Market Outlook Update. Anticipated cuts to wind power targets in China under the country’s upcoming Thirteenth Five-Year Plan headline the most impa
MAKE: Political Turmoil Dents Global Wind Growth Outlook
A host of political events have had a negative impact on global wind power growth expectations through 2025, MAKE said in its Q4/2016 Global Wind Power Market Outlook Update. Anticipated cuts to wind power targets in China under the country’s upcoming Thirteenth Five-Year Plan headline the most impa
Tidetec wraps up tidal trials
Norwegian tidal energy developer, Tidetec, has concluded the two-month long testing of its prototype tidal device.