Technology
Top news, November 20 – 26, 2017
Tidal Energy Today has compiled the top news from tidal and wave energy industry from November 20 – 26, 2017.
Damage prompts Waves4Power to end Runde wave tests earlier
Waves4Power has decided to recover the WaveEL wave energy buoy earlier than anticipated due to the damage on the unit’s anchoring lines.
OES examines EIA tools for marine renewables
Ocean Energy Systems (OES) Annex IV project has organized a webinar to discuss three tools that can be employed for addressing environmental impact assessment (EIA) concerns around marine renewable energy deployments.
Video: Experts talk wave power PTOs
ETIP Ocean has released a recording of the recently held webinar which featured experts from major wave energy companies who talked about technology developments in the wave energy sector.
Converting Platform Supply Vessels Into Dredgers
By David Pitt, Naval Architect at Offshore Ship Designers In the wake of the well-documented downturn in the oil and gas markets in recent years, an increasing number of platform supply vessels (PSVs) are currently under-utilized or languishing in lay-up, most notably in the US Gulf Coast region. Va
Scotload keeps MeyGen turbines safe
Strainstall sister company, Scotload, the specialist in load measuring and monitoring solutions, has recently provided load monitoring shackles to the MeyGen project to ensure safe offshore operations.
Ireland boosts marine research with €3.3M in funding grants
The Irish government has awarded funding to 20 research projects in the areas of specialist marine equipment, and ocean law and marine governance.
Ampelmann and Eidesvik Team Up on Wikinger
Ampelmann has been awarded a contract by Eidesvik to deliver an Ampelmann E-type for the Viking Neptun, currently serving as an accommodation and a crew transfer vessel (CTV) on the Wikinger offshore wind farm.
Ampelmann and Eidesvik Team Up on Wikinger
Ampelmann has been awarded a contract by Eidesvik to deliver an Ampelmann E-type for the Viking Neptun, currently serving as an accommodation and a crew transfer vessel (CTV) on the Wikinger offshore wind farm.
Budget 2017: UK steers away from new green subsidies
The UK government has confirmed that there will be no new subsidies for renewable power deployments until 2025 under the new scheme set to replace the Levy Control Framework (LCF) which funds new renewable electricity projects.
SCORE project moves forward to tidal arrays modeling
University of Algarve’s Marine Offshore Renewable Energy (MORE) team has finished data capturing with Evopod E1 tidal unit conducted in Portugal as part of the SCORE project.
DNV GL Sees Diving, Sailing and Crawling Robots in Offshore Wind’s Future
DNV GL has published a position paper on artificial intelligence (AI) in solar and wind energy industries, saying AI will increasingly automate operations over the next several years and boost efficiencies across the renewable energy sector.
DesignPro picks SEENEOH for hydrokinetic testing
Irish company DesignPro has selected the SEENEOH tidal test site in France to trial its 25kW hydrokinetic turbine.
Teledyne: Innovative Spill Measurement for Wirecrane and Excavator Dredging
Teledyne RESON has just released a very interesting paper named ‘Innovative spill measurement for wirecrane and excavator dredging‘. “Monitoring of what happens underwater always has been a challenge. Dredge guidance and monitoring software have the advantage that they show the position of the bucke