EnBW and CWind announced today at EWEA 2015 in Copenhagen that their joint implementation of the first satellite communication system in remote management of temporary power supply in the offshore wind industry is successfully passing its test. The system is proving a resilient and effective means o
Dong Energy has signed an agreement with the Jan De Nul Group for the installation of subsea export cables at the Race Bank offshore wind development project in the UK. Jan De Nul Group has experience within dredging, and has now extended its business into cable installation. Race Bank offshore wind
Dong Energy has chosen Siemens as preferred supplier for delivery of their 7.0MW wind turbine for the second phase of the Walney Extension Offshore Wind Farm. The second phase of the Walney Extension Offshore Wind Farm will have a total capacity of 330MW. Mats Vikholm, Senior Vice President for Dong
DNV GL today announced Nikola Vasiljević, Ph.D from DTU Wind Energy, the Technical University of Denmark, as the winner of the 2015 PhD Award in Renewable Energy. He was awarded a €5000 cash prize for his winning thesis, “A time-space synchronisation of coherent Doppler scanning lidars for 3D measur
Automasjon og Data (A+D) is currently showcasing the new generation Vessel Motion Monitoring System (VMMS) at EWEA Offshore in Copenhagen. The new generation VMMS are using a multi-sensor approach to measuring the vessel motion and the new AIMM inertial matrix sensor is used for this application. Th
Hull and Humber’s emerging renewable energy sector is being promoted across Europe through a series of international exhibitions that are being supported by the Green Port Growth Programme (GPGP). Under the Humber Renewables brand, the Humber Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP), local authority partn
Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. (OPT) will deploy its ABP-350 type of PowerBuoy in the summer of this year, the company’s President and Chief Executive, George H. Kirby, confirmed in the announcement of OPT’s third quarter results. OPT’s PB40 wave energy system that is currently in New Jersey will be
Since the 7th of August 2014 E35 has successfully completed six months of continuous deployment in Sanda Sound. The trials have demonstrated Evopod’s low motions and survivability characteristics in the moderately fast flowing (4 to 5 knots) tidal site, which in the winter months is also exposed to
High Wind NV has started the commercialisation of its Boom Lock© allowing the safe installation of all wind turbine components in winds of up to 15 m/s. The first Boom Lock© was completed in January, consequently installed on GeoSea’s Neptune, and has undergone its final performance trials last week
Though its Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA), the Carbon Trust is backing trial to understand the viability of using dual Doppler radar to produce high-resolution dynamic maps of the wind flow through and around a wind farm. Recently announced, the measurement campaign is part of OWA partner Dong Ener
Carnegie Wave Energy Limited’s (CWE) third and final CETO 5 wave energy unit has been successfully installed and is operating at its Perth Wave Energy Project site off Garden Island, Western Australia. The third CETO 5 unit was installed successfully at the project site last Saturday and has since b
Siemens has launched a new alternating-current (AC) grid access solution for connecting near-shore wind power plants to the grid. The new solution consists of an offshore transformer module (OTM) attached directly to a wind turbine, and acts as a distributed transmission asset. Nominally rated in in
Offshore Energy Research Association (OERA) Student Research Travel Program has provided six Nova Scotia students the opportunity to build their international networks through travel to the USA, Ireland, and Bermuda to conduct their thesis research in the fields of marine renewable energy and offsho
Siemens has presented its new SWT-7.0-154 wind turbine at EWEA Offshore conference in Copenhagen. After setting standards with its flagship 6MW offshore wind turbine, the SWT-6.0-154, Siemens today introduced a generator upgrade to seven megawatt (MW), the new Siemens SWT-7.0-154. The turbine delive