3339 results found for 'Merkur'

3339 results found for 'Merkur'
Order results by

A list of search results

  • Metocean Measurement Campaign Starts Offshore Lithuania

    21 July 2022
    R&D, Wind Farm Update

    Two buoys with specialised equipment have been deployed at two predefined locations in the Baltic Sea, as part of a contract signed between Lithuania’s Ministry of Energy and the Spain-based EOLOS Floating LiDAR Solutions. The anchoring of the buoys was carried out by the Lithuanian Garant Diving company, together with the Spanish specialists. For one […]

  • ESB Seeks Wind and Metocean Measurement Teams

    13 January 2021
    Contracts & Tenders

    Ireland’s Electricity Supply Board (ESB) has issued a contract notice for a qualification system for offshore wind resource and metocean measurement campaigns on sites off the coast of Ireland and the UK. The wind measurement and metocean data will be utilized to enable offshore structures to be designed against both extreme and fatigue loading conditions […]

  • Bonheur and Ganger Rolf Float Merger Plans

    8 February 2016
    Business & Finance

    The boards of directors of Bonheur ASA and Ganger Rolf ASA have resolved to propose a merger of the two companies, with Bonheur being the surviving entity and maintaining its listing on the Oslo Stock Exchange. The corporate structure of Bonheur and Ganger Rolf has historically taken the form of a cross ownership between the two companies, […]

  • Scotload Presents New Load Measurement Technology

    12 November 2013

    Scotload launched a new product for safe lifting, intelligent load cell that stores data for real-time and retrospective analysis, SmartLoad™. The new SmartLoad™ data logging feature provides asset owners with protection against product misuse and overload events by providing a true and correct log of all operations carried out. SmartLoad™ has a variety of features […]

  • LiDAR Measurement Campaign Gives Results (Norway)

    14 January 2014
    R&D, Technology

    In March 2013, Norwegian Centre for Offshore Wind Energy (NORCOWE) inaugurated a measurement campaign at Sola airport outside of Stavanger, Norway. The equipment installed consisted of one scanning and one static wind LiDAR system. In addition a second static wind LiDAR was installed some 3 km further away, side by side with an automatic radiosonde […]

  • Wind Measurement Campaign Starts Offshore Vietnam

    27 September 2022
    R&D, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Mainstream Renewable Power and its partner AIT Corporation have installed a Light Detection and Ranging system (LiDAR) unit at the 500 MW Ben Tre offshore wind farm in Vietnam. The LiDAR was placed on a fixed platform and deployed in Vietnam’s East Sea, 40 kilometres from the coast of Ben Tre Province at water depths of […]

  • Wind and Ocean Measurement Campaign Starts Offshore Germany

    13 February 2025
    Authorities, Business development, Planning & Permitting, Research & Development

    At the end of last year, the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) and the Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) launched a multi-year measurement campaign to collect wind and sea data in an area approximately 280 kilometres off the German North Sea coast. Since mid-December 2024, Fugro Norway, contracted for this purpose, has been collecting comprehensive wind […]

  • Pelamis Features Live Farr Point Wave Measurements

    3 July 2014

    Live wave measurements captured off the north coast of Scotland are now accessible to public via the Pelamis Wave Power website. Pelamis Wave Power manages the development of commercial scale wave power projects around Scotland, in parallel with other Pelamis wave farms being developed directly by customers and joint venture partners. These projects will demonstrate […]

  • UK: Jersey Plans Mast to Measure Wind Power

    11 June 2012

    Jersey’s Environment Department is planning to install masts on offshore reefs at the Minquiers and Ecrehous, according to the BBC. The 10 meter masts will measure the power of the wind in those areas. Even though there are no plans for wind farm development near the reefs, marine biologist Nic Jouault voiced his concern about […]

  • UK: Vattenfall in Quest for Missing Wave Measurement Buoy

    28 June 2012

    After one of Vattenfall’s wave measurement buoys disappeared from its anchoring place, the company had to assure the residents of the Shetland Islands that the proposed Aegir wave farm will be firmly anchored. Last year, Vattenfall deployed two buoys around 2 kilometres to the west of the south tip of Burra and one of them […]

  • Iberdrola Enters Negotiations for Merger With Renovables Subsidiary (Spain)

    9 March 2011

    The Board of IBERDROLA has today made the proposal to the subsidiary, which will analyze it over the next few days. Attractive conditions proposed for transaction structure and pricing: * 16.7% premium over average share price of past 6 months (€2.978 per share) * 2.7% premium over exchange equation at time of original share launch […]

  • VIDEO: FORCE Measuring Turbulence Throughout Water Column

    18 July 2014

    FORCE, in partnership with Nortek Scientific, a Canadian centre of excellence in acoustic Doppler processing, is developing the world’s first instrument to accurately measure turbulence throughout the water column – called a Vectron. A leap forward in site characterization, the Vectron generates high fidelity measurements of turbulence through turbine hub height. These measurements include turbulence […]

  • DEME’s New WTIV Stretches 124-Metre-Long Legs Ahead of Delivery in Q4 2025

    8 August 2025
    Project Updates, Vessels

    DEME’s new wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) Norse Wind has completed a full-height jacking test at Yantai CIMC Raffles Offshore’s shipyard as part of the vessel’s commissioning phase, before it is delivered to DEME in the fourth quarter of this year. During the test, the vessel’s legs were extended to their full length of 124 […]

  • 153-Metre Wind Turbine Blades Head to Testing After Leaving China’s Yantai Port

    5 August 2025
    Business development, R&D, Research & Development, Supply Chain, Technology, Wind Turbines

    The ultra-long blades for what will be the world’s most powerful offshore wind turbine have been shipped from Yantai Port in China’s northeastern Shandong province and are en route to a test base. Three blades, each measuring 153 metres long and weighing 83.5 tonnes, were loaded at the Port of Yantai on 1 August. The […]

  • Vattenfall Selects Cefas for Norfolk Vanguard Metocean Measurement Campaign

    4 September 2017
    R&D, Wind Farm Update

    Swedish energy company Vattenfall has contracted Lowestoft-based Centre for Environment Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cesta) to measure offshore weather and sea conditions for its 1.8GW Norfolk Vanguard offshore wind project.

  • Two First Flight Wind’s Marker Buoys Drift Away

    11 December 2013
    Technology

    Two of four cardinal buoys, which were deployed within the Northern Irish Wind Resource Zone as part of an offshore wind project, have drifted away from their positions. Fugro EMU Limited has been commissioned by First Flight Wind Limited to install and maintain two MetOcean wave monitoring buoys, four accompanying markers, and two seabed frames […]

  • Money First, Nstar-Northeast Utilities Merger Later (USA)

    23 December 2010
    Authorities

    The Patrick administration is signaling it will hold hostage the proposed Nstar-Northeast Utilities merger unless the two electric companies agree to buy Cape Wind power and prove they have “outstanding track records” on clean-energy issues. In a recent speech to utility insiders, Gov. Deval Patrick’s outgoing environmental and energy czar Ian Bowles said the regulatory […]

  • Siemens to Buy Adwen as Part of Gamesa Merger?

    25 March 2016
    Business & Finance

    Reportedly, Siemens is likely to buy Adwen, a joint venture between Areva and Gamesa, as part of its merger with Gamesa.  During these first months of 2016, Siemens and Gamesa have been in final talks over an agreement to merge their wind power businesses and thus make the world’s largest wind turbine manufacturer. However, up until now, onshore wind […]

  • FLiDAR Completes Neart na Gaoithe Measurements

    9 March 2015
    R&D, Wind Farm Update

    FLiDAR has wrapped up the onsite wind measurements at Mainstream Renewable Power’s 448MW Neart na Gaoithe offshore wind farm. The FLiDAR floating LiDAR buoy provided on-site wind measurements and resulted in a considerable development time and cost saving compared to a traditional meteorological mast. The unit is now decommissioned and undergoing post validation at the ORE Catapult […]

  • PGE to Begin Baltica 1 Metocean Measurement Campaign

    26 April 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    PGE Baltica, a subsidiary of PGE Group, has revealed that it will start the metocean measurement campaign for the Baltica 1 offshore wind project in the Polish Baltic Sea next month. As part of the measurement campaign, a Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) system will be mounted on a floating buoy to collect data on […]

  • Pondera and Oldbaum Strike Up Wind Measurement Partnership

    7 June 2018
    Business & Finance

    The Netherlands-based Pondera Consult and the Scottish Oldbaum have established a partnership dedicated to offshore and onshore wind measurements.

  • Nass&Wind Validates Its Floating Measurement Platform

    6 March 2015
    R&D, Technology

    One year after its launching, Nass&Wind Offshore had achieved validation campaign of its floating measurement platform M3EA (Marine Measurements for Meteorological and Environmental Assessment) off the coast of Saint Vaast-la-Hougue (Manche). Dedicated to wind and environmental measurements for Marine Renewable Energy (MRE) and supported by the Région Bretagne, M3EA recently obtained its validation from DNV […]

  • CWind Taiwan Aligns Ops with COVID-19 Measures

    27 March 2020
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    CWind Taiwan, part of Global Marine Group, has taken steps in line with guidelines recently issued by the Taiwanese government and its UK parent company to cope with the effects of the now global COVID-19 pandemic.

  • Fugro to Perform FLiDAR Measurements for Danish Energy Islands

    20 September 2021
    Authorities, Grid Connection

    Danish transmission system operator Energinet has awarded Fugro Norway AS a floating measurements contract for the Energy Islands and offshore wind farms in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea. Under the contract, which is divided into four Lots, two for works in the North Sea and two for works in the Baltic Sea, Fugro […]

  • JASCO Measuring Block Island OWF Subsea Noise

    19 October 2015
    R&D

    JASCO Applied Sciences, under subcontract to Tetra Tech Inc., is providing underwater acoustic measurement and monitoring services to Deepwater Wind during the installation of the Block Island Wind Farm. JASCO is conducting field data acquisition and subsequent analysis and interpretation for short- and long-term studies of noise from pile driving and related construction activities. The […]

  • UMass Dartmouth to Measure US Offshore Wind Economics

    12 April 2018
    Business & Finance, R&D

    The UMass Dartmouth Public Policy Center (PPC) has launched a new project which will monitor the offshore wind industry in the United States and analyze its economic development and workforce implications.