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  • Tidal Energy Platform to Float Off Dutch Coast

    29 October 2014
    Business & Finance, Technology

    A group of leading offshore companies, including Bluewater, Damen and Van Oord, have joined together to realize a unique floating tidal energy platform, which will be moored near Texel in the Wadden Sea and generate clean electricity from the tides. The platform is a trial for remote locations worldwide, such as islands in Indonesia, Philippines […]

  • Humphree Develops Vessel Motion Monitoring System

    21 October 2014
    Operations & Maintenance, Technology, Vessels

    Humphree, the Swedish based manufacturer of Interceptor Trim Tabs, has introduced a system for Vessel Motion Monitoring, which provides monitoring of real time impact forces, vessel heave motions and sea sickness index with a possibility of complete data recording. Humphree has developed the Vessel Motion Monitoring (VMM) system in-house as a request from their customers in different […]

  • BLG Patents Its Innovative XXL Foundation Storage & Transport System

    15 October 2014
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Technology

    The German Patent Office has decided to grant a patent to BLG Logistics Group for its innovative system called “Sleeper”, which is put to use during the storage of offshore wind foundations of up to 900 tons.  With the invention, BLG helps reduce costs in the offshore wind industry by avoiding cost intensive upgrading of surfaces to meet the requirements […]

  • US DoE Cuts OPT Funding

    8 October 2014
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    US Department of Energy decided to terminate the negotiations over the USD 1 million grant awarded to Ocean Power Technologies. The company accepted the decision without protest. The grant was awarded last year as part of Marine and Hydrokinetic System Performance Advancement programme aiming to improve materials, manufacturability, and durability of the float and spar. […]

  • Guardian Powers Maintenance Work at Borkum Riffgrund 1

    4 July 2014
    Operations & Maintenance

    Providing power for offshore operations on a transition piece in the construction phase is an essential service when working on the lifeless transition piece. Recently GeoSea chartered the Guardian, Braveheart Shipping’s survey vessel, to provide power by cable to the transition piece in the Borkum Riffgrund 1 wind farm on which they were carrying out […]

  • Riffgat Awarding Crew Transfer Contract

    4 July 2014

    Offshore-Windpark Riffgat GmbH & Co. KG is looking for passenger transport vessel including crew, for the transfer of persons in the operating field of Riffgat offshore wind farms. The vessel is required to have a speed of at least 21 knots under moderate sea conditions with a capacity of at least 24 persons. It may not exceed […]

  • OWS Orders Another Damen FCS 2008

    2 July 2014

    Dutch company Offshore Wind Services (OWS) ordered a Damen FCS 2008. This is the company’s second vessel ordered from Damen this year. Damen Shipyard Den Helder in the Netherlands will outfit the vessel with a second generator set and offshore crane. She will also be painted in the company’s colours. The vessel is to be […]

  • RWE Reaches Two OW Milestones

    2 July 2014
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    The last few days have been challenging for the installation teams of RWE’s offshore wind farms. The last of the 160 wind turbines has now been installed successfully off the Welsh coast, and cabling and commissioning works continue at pace to ensure the wind farm becomes fully operational this winter. The construction of the German […]

  • Sweden, Ghana to Develop 1GW Wave Energy Project

    23 June 2014
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Technology

    Swede Energy has signed an agreement with TC Energy Ltd in Ghana to jointly develop the largest wave power project in the world. The project is situated outside the coast of Ghana and will be built in blocks with a total targeted installed capacity of 1000MW.  TC Energy Ltd is the holder of permits and […]

  • HRH Crown Prince Frederik to Visit SSP Technology

    19 June 2014
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    HRH Crown Prince Frederik and Minister for Climate, Energy and Building Rasmus Helveg Petersen will be visiting SSP Technology June 24, 2014. The company visit is schedule to one hour having a guided tour of SSP Tecnology’s production halls. Currently a 74.4 m. blade as well as moulds and tooling are being produced for the German company […]

  • Inocean to Showcase Its Expertise at WINDFORCE 2014

    16 June 2014

    This week Inocean will be present at WINDFORCE 2014 in Bremen. The company will present its competence and services within offshore wind at INTPOWs pavilion, which main message is: «Norway – Powered By Nature». WINDFORCE 2014 is the key event of the offshore wind industry, taking place in from 17th to 19th of June, where […]

  • Principle Power Names New COO

    16 May 2014

    Principle Power, Inc. (Principle Power) appointed João Metelo as the Chief Operating Officer and acting Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Metelo joins Principle Power with over 14 years of experience in the energy sector, having held several executive and leading roles with special focus in finance areas such as M&A, Financing, Strategic Planning and Control. Prior […]

  • Dillinger Hütte Delivers Steel for Teesside Monopiles

    16 May 2014

    Dillinger Hütte supplied around 16,000 tons of, essentially thermo-mechanically rolled, heavy plates in thicknesses up to 85 mm for the Teesside Offshore wind farm monopile foundations. EDF Energy Renewable officially opened the wind farm located in northeastern England on 16th April 2014. The 27 installed turbines have the capacity to produce 62 MW of electricity to […]

  • EPISCentre to Produce Skilled Energy Workers from July

    15 May 2014
    Business & Finance, Training & Education

    A new skills centre to become the focal point for world class energy skills training in the East of England is to be launched in the Great Yarmouth borough in July. The EPISCentre project will start initially from the Minerva House building near the home of EEEEGR, the East of England Energy Group, at Beacon […]

  • Additional $44 Tln Needed for Clean Energy by 2050, Says IEA

    13 May 2014
    Business & Finance

    Electricity will increasingly power the world’s economies in the 21st century, rivalling oil as the dominant energy carrier, according to a new report by the International Energy Agency. Actively managing this transformation is the only way to meet global energy security and climate goals economically, the report says. The report, Energy Technology Perspectives (ETP 2014), […]

  • Prysmian Takes a Hit from Western Link Project

    9 May 2014
    Business & Finance

    The Board of Directors of Prysmian S.p.A. has approved the Group’s consolidated results for the first quarter of 2014 (which are not subject to audit). Group Sales amounted to €1,579 million compared with €1,669 million in the first quarter of 2013, posting organic growth of +3.2%, assuming the same group perimeter and excluding metal price […]

  • SCORE Grants £48K to Tidal Transit

    8 May 2014
    Business & Finance

    Born from an established business offering day charter fishing trips from Brancaster Staithe, Tidal Transit developed into a crew transfer and marine survey vessel provider predominantly servicing the offshore wind sector. The latest addition to Tidal Transit’s fleet is being developed with SCORE funding which will be used to enable the Tidal Transit team to […]

  • Carnegie Presents Its Technology at EIMR Conference

    5 May 2014
    Technology

    Carnegie Wave Energy Limited’s Environment and Planning Advisor, Edwina Davies Ward, has delivered a presentation at the Environmental Interactions of Marine Renewables (EIMR-II) Conference, being held in Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland. EIMR-II attendants have learned more about the company’s CETO technology and the entire process of the Perth Wave Energy Project development. […]

  • Bayards, Barge Master to Develop Motion Compensated Helideck

    5 May 2014
    Technology

    Bayards Aluminium Constructies, a specialist in light weight and maintenance free structures for the offshore industry, has paired up with Barge Master, a pioneer in motion compensated equipment for the offshore industry, to design the first aluminium Motion Compensated Helideck. The new Motion Compensated Helideck (MCH) is driven by three actuators compensating two translations (sway […]

  • RenewableUK Expands to Tidal Lagoon Energy

    2 May 2014

    The trade association representing the wind and marine energy industries, RenewableUK, is expanding its membership to include companies involved in tidal lagoon energy. The organisation has covered wave and tidal stream energy since 2004 and will now take on an additional form of tidal power. Tidal lagoon technology traps water at high tide in vast […]

  • Windwave Workboats Acquires Damen’s First FCS 2008

    30 April 2014

    Damen announced that Windwave Workboats will be the launching customer of the Twin Axe Fast Crew Supplier (FCS) 2008. The Twin Axe FCS 2008 is a smaller version of Damen’s successful FCS 2610 which launched in 2011 and has subsequently become the industry standard for the offshore wind market, given its capability of operating further […]

  • NOAA to Survey U.S. Coastal Waters

    29 April 2014
    Authorities, R&D

    The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) ships, small boats, and hydrographic services contractors have their sailing orders to survey more than 2,000 square nautical miles in U.S. coastal waters this year, collecting data that will strengthen the foundation of the nation’s environmental intelligence. Most of the vessels are sailing to their initial project […]

  • Senvion Starts Installation of 6.2M152 Wind Turbine

    26 March 2014

    Senvion SE has started to install the prototype of its new 6.2M152. With this turbine, the company is setting new standards for efficient electricity generation in offshore wind farms. In a first step, the access routes to the Langen-Neuenwalde location (20 km north of Bremerhaven) are being built. The turbine is scheduled to begin operations at the end […]

  • RenewableUK Welcomes Siemens’ Announcement

    25 March 2014

    Reacting to the announcement by Siemens that it will build wind turbine production and installation facilities at two sites in Yorkshire, investing £160 million, RenewableUK’s Chief Executive Maria McCaffery said: “This is a major coup for the British wind industry – it’s the green-collar jobs game-changer that we’ve been waiting for. Attracting a major international […]

  • Westermost Rough OWF’s Noise to Be Monitored from Homes

    13 March 2014
    Environment, R&D, Technology

    The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) is continuing to work closely with colleagues based in its Grimsby coastal office, the East Riding of Yorkshire Council and the developer Dong Energy, to gain a better understanding of the concerns about noise in Withernsea, East Riding of Yorkshire and the Westermost Rough Offshore Wind Farm. The MMO said […]

  • Azimut Project Leads to Development of 15MW OW Turbine

    13 March 2014
    R&D, Technology

    Eleven Spanish companies and 22 research centers, coordinated by Gamesa, have successfully completed their applied research activities within the Azimut project, which aims to enable the development of the world’s largest capacity wind turbine by 2020. The project has reached the objective of generating knowledge as well as key technologies that will enable the development […]