Technology
First UK HVDC Test Centre Open for Business
Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) has opened a new technology centre in Cumbernauld that will allow the energy industry to simulate real life conditions to test and de-risk the use of high voltage direct current (HVDC) on the electricity network in Great Britain.
Van Wijngaarden Expands Its Fleet with New Damen Shoalbuster
Van Wijngaarden Marine Services B.V. is expanding its fleet with new Damen Shoalbuster 3512 – the Lingestroom. “The 3512 combines a bollard pull of 55 tonnes with a deck area totaling 145 m²; enough space for seven 20 ft and two 10 ft containers, and an 11.3 tonnes @ 16.5 m deck crane, making it a [
Vibratory Pile Driving Researchers Go Deeper Underground (Gallery)
innogy-led research project to test a new method of installing foundations on offshore wind farms has entered its next phase.
CDA Bilbao recovers Mutriku’s wave monitoring device
Bilbao-based marine contractor Commercial Diving Activity (CDA) has retrieved a monitoring instrument installed at the Mutriku wave energy plant as part of the OPERA project.
Moventas and Doosan Team Up on South Korean Offshore Wind Project
Wind gearbox technology specialist Moventas and Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction have agreed on the Exceed gearbox deliveries to an offshore wind farm in South Korea.
ELA Container Offshore Kits Out MPI Enterprise
ELA Container Offshore GmbH has recently delivered three ELA offshore multipurpose rooms on the MPI Enterprise, MPI Offshore’s construction vessel currently working on the 336MW Nordsee One offshore wind farm.
Eco Wave Power sets eyes on Australia
Australian Minister of Energy and Environment, Josh Frydenberg, has visited the Israeli wave energy company Eco Wave Power (EWP) as it looks to explore wave energy opportunities in Australia.
Netherlands awards over €4M for Grevelingendam tidal project
Tidal Technology Center Grevelingendam (TTC-GD) has secured €4.1 million from the Dutch government.
Soil Machine Dynamics, Van Oord Sign QTrencher Deal
Soil Machine Dynamics Ltd (SMD) today signed a contract with Van Oord for the manufacture and delivery of a QTrencher 1600. Scheduled for delivery in Q1 2018, the high power trenching machine will be supplied with an SMD designed umbilical winch, along with jetting and mechanical cutting tools to ta
Magallanes launches full-scale floating tidal platform
Magallanes Renovables has launched its multi-megawatt floating tidal platform in Vigo, Galicia, north-west of Spain.
TSHD Severnaya Dvina Busy in Arkhangelsk Port
Federal State Unitary Enterprise (FSUE) Rosmorport has just announced that the Arkhangelsk Port dredging program is officially underway. During this dredging scheme, undertaken with the Damen built Ice class trailing suction hopper dredger Severnaya Dvina, around 1.7 million cubic meters of material
Nicon Industries Preps Pacific Orca for Galloper
Danish steel structures specialist Nicon Industries has completed the mobilisation of the wind turbine installation vessel Pacific Orca in Esbjerg as the jack-up prepares for the 336MW Galloper offshore wind farm project.
SGS connects UK’s winds and tides
Smarter Grid Solutions (SGS) plans to use its technology to enable a shared grid connection of the MeyGen tidal array and Lochend wind farm in Scotland.
Industry teams up with academia to drive down tidal costs
Oceanographers at Bangor University’s School of Ocean Sciences have teamed up with Nortek, and Partrac, to study ocean turbulence with the aim of reducing the costs associated with tidal energy devices.