Technology
NorSea Wind to Use Nordic Unmanned Drones for HVDC Platform Inspections
NorSea Wind (NorSeaGroup Wind) has signed a five-year agreement with Nordic Unmanned (NU) for the provision of drone services for the works on nine TenneT’s HVDC platforms, for which NorSea Wind won a five-year contract earlier this year.
Dragflow HY400 Pump for Petromar Angola
Dragflow, an Italian manufacturer of dredging equipment, recently supplied its HY400 pump and a power pack to Petromar Angola (subsidiary of Saipem) for dredging work in a coastal section characterized by shallow waters. Dragflow said in its announcement that the customer wanted to maintain the dept
DesignPro, Mitsubishi Electric readying 25kW device for late summer deployment
DesignPro Renewables and Mitsubishi Electric, which has joined the hydrokinetic technology start-up in the development of its 25kW in-river turbine, are working towards deploying the device at the SEENEOH test site in Bordeaux, France, later this summer.
Wind-Solar Hybrid Takes Aim at Offshore Platforms
Rotterdam-based Amphibious Energy is testing the Hybrid EnergyPod, a container designed to generate, store and convert solar and wind power, at the Port of Rotterdam’s Maasvlakte 2.
SINN Power starts building wave energy project in Greece
SINN Power has attached two supporting structures for its wave energy converter (WEC) modules to the port wall in Heraklion on Crete, Greece, where the company will install and commission the first two of the total of five of its devices in early July.
Innogy and TenneT Blaze North Sea Offshore Wind Hub Trail
International energy company innogy and Dutch transmission system operator (TSO) TenneT have signed a Letter of Intent to jointly investigate the opportunities and challenges of offshore wind cross-border interconnectors across a North Sea Wind Power Hub system. Sea.
HydroQuest Ocean 1MW tidal turbine to hit the water in spring 2019
HydroQuest and its equity partner CMN (Constructions Mécaniques de Normandie) have informed that they will install and commission the HydroQuest Ocean 1MW tidal turbine at EDF’s Paimpol-Bréhat site in France in the spring of 2019.
New €11M project combines tidal energy and hydrogen production
Orkney will become home to another innovative energy solution with a newly launched project set to deliver an onshore energy management system that will support the production of hydrogen using an electrolyser powered by a tidal energy converter.
NeSSIE launches competition for anti-corrosion solutions
On June 6, the consortium behind the NeSSIE project (short for North Sea Solutions for Innovation in Corrosion for Energy) launched a competition for delivering anti-corrosion solutions for tidal, wave and offshore wind energy sectors.
Italdraghe VIDEO: BD3 Demo in Italy
Italdraghe, an Italian manufacturer of specifically designed dredging and mining applications, held a demonstration of their BD3 – Dredging Head for Excavators – in Bisentrate (MI) R.P.R. Quarry, Italy, on May 17. The BD3 was attached to a Hitachi excavator for this purpose, said the company in thei
Spaniards Make Offshore Wind Power Play
Scientists from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) have designed a new control system for offshore wind farms which is said to allow power transmission to the coast in a simpler, more flexible and cheaper way than current solutions.
EnBW Dives Deep Into US Offshore Wind
German energy company EnBW and Seattle-based Trident Winds have formed a joint venture to develop the Morro Bay floating wind project off the coast of Central California.
B.offshore Conducts Alpha Ventus Substation Maintenance
B.offshore GmbH has completed maintenance work on the offshore substation of the Alpha Ventus offshore wind farm in Germany.
Top news, June 4 – 10, 2018
MarineEnergy.biz has compiled the top news from marine energy industry from June 4 – June 10, 2018.