SAL Heavy Lift has been subcontracted by Bilfinger to transport and install the Wikinger test piles and equipment with their DP Class 2 vessel MV Lone. In October 2014 the first phase of the pile testing campaign for the Wikinger offshore wind farm project was launched, after the site’s geotechnical
SAL Heavy Lift has been subcontracted by Bilfinger to transport and install the Wikinger test piles and equipment with their DP Class 2 vessel MV Lone. In October 2014 the first phase of the pile testing campaign for the Wikinger offshore wind farm project was launched, after the site’s geotechnical
Sandia National Laboratories’ water power technologies group, together with ORPC, has performed high fidelity evaluation of ORPC’s RivGen turbine. The Sandia-ORPC team applied high fidelity modeling to evaluate the performance of the RivGen prototype turbine generation unit, a cross-flow turbine, wh
ECN specialists Masoud Asgarpour and Ashish Dewan were awarded the prize at EWEA Offshore 2015 under the category “winner in supply chain, logistics and O&M”. The award was in the context of an analysis of three innovative scenarios for the installation of an offshore wind farm: Breakwaters: in orde
The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has granted its first wind energy research lease for a 12MW offshore wind test facility off Virginia. The lease has been given to Virginia’s Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy (DMME), which partnered with Dominion Resources, Inc. to develop the
WERPO is arranging the beginning of negotiations in the private and public sectors in Grenada, in order to implement its wave energy technology off the coast of this island country. In mid-December WERPO announced the partnership agreement with Seedsowers Investors and Developer, appointing Seedsowe
The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC), together with the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult, is offering free component testing to support the development of wave and tidal energy converters. The goal of the project is to help the industry gain better understanding of issuses regarding comp
WATERS awards in the amount of GBP 3.7 mln will be divided between three companies to support the total tidal and wave project costs of GBP 7 mln. Albatern, Nova Innovation and Sustainable Marine Energy will receive the fundings from the third round of WATERS scheme – a collaborative venture between
Scotland’s marine energy sector has benefited from WATERS funding of almost £3.7million to further test and develop new marine energy prototypes in the seas around Scotland. Awards have been made to three companies – Albatern, Nova Innovation and Sustainable Marine Energy – to support total project
The EU’s TEN-T Programme will provide EUR 400.000 for energy efficiency initiative at the Port of Bordeux. The project is said to combine energy saving measures and alternative energy production plans in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and transport sector’s dependency on oil and gas. The b
Seabased, a Swedish wave developer, has deployed another wave energy generator to its wave farm, developed in cooperation with Fortum and the Swedish Energy Agency, located approximately 8 km off Smögen, Sweden. The first phase of the wave power farm was deployed during the week commencing March 23,
In February 2015, three MEDOW researchers presented their work at the 11th IET International Conference on AC and DC Power Transmission (ACDC 2015) in Birmingham, UK. Robert Renner’s work concentrates on optimal DC reference voltage in HVDC grids. The paper introduces a method to find the optimal DC
A groundbreaking project to observe and analyse regular data about ocean circulation and how it impacts on Britain’s climate has reached a ten-year milestone, giving valuable new insights into how ocean currents can affect global warming. The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is a m
The Engineering Integrity Society (EIS) is organizing its 4th meeting on durability and fatigue advances in wind, wave and tidal energy industries. The aim of the meeting is to emphasize the recent advancements in fatigue and durability assessment for renewable energy structures in wind, wave and ti
