German engineering consultancy Gicon has received permission from a governmental agency to feed 2.3MW of grid connection capacity through the country’s first floating offshore foundation – GICON®-SOF. On 3 November 2015, Edelstahl und Umwelttechnik Stralsund GmbH (ESG), a member of the Gicon Group,
Sabella’s D10 tidal turbine, deployed in June 2015 in the Passage du Fromveur, has started delivering its first kilowatt hours following the connection to the electricity grid at Ouessant Island on 5 November. Since its connection to the island in late September, a 2km long submarine cable has been
Wind Energy Link (WELink), the global asset management, wind and logistics joint venture between Peterson, ATO Sustainable Business Engineers and Asset Management Control Tools & Training, has received the AMC ISO 55 001 quality certificate of product approval. The quality certificate was awarded fo
Spanish company Laulagun Bearings, in collaboration with IK4-IKERLAN, has developed bearings for offshore wind turbines that are capable of self-diagnosis and of making their condition known to the wind turbine’s control system. This will help minimise damage and coincide maintenance work with times
BioPower Systems has completed the final preparation of the bioWAVE wave energy device. The unit is ready for installation offshore Victoria, Australia. It will be loaded onto the transport vessel, and moved to the deployment site near Port Fairy, the company wrote in a statement. The deployment is
Scotland’s Energy Minister Fergus Ewing has urged the UK Government to change their policy direction to ensure faster build of new power capacity, including renewable energy, in combination with increased storage capacity, following the last week’s market notification from National Grid of a shortfa
US-based Tideland Signal Corporation has entered into an agreement to acquire IMT B.V. Group of Companies, the Netherlands-headquartered developer of lighting, navigation and signalization products and systems for offshore, marine, construction and governmental sectors. By acquiring IMT, Tideland ex
Researchers at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) have designed and patented a floating platform for offshore wind turbines that can reduce energy costs to 12 euro cents per kilowatt hour (kWh) through a more efficient design and c
A new electrical engineering consultancy, Kinewell Energy, has been launched, introducing its specially developed software for the offshore wind industry. According to the newly set up company, the Kinewell Layout Optimisation of Cable (KLOC) software is a result of two years of research and develop
Wave Electricity Renewable Power Ocean (WERPO) has entered into a new agreement with Sunbelt Israel, part of the Sunbelt Business Network capital group, to secure funding for the outstanding projects. WERPO, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Israeli sea wave energy technology developer Blackbird Inte
Denmark’s Vestas is planning to build a new blade manufacturing facility in India and is expecting up to EUR 1 billion more in revenue in 2015 after posting encouraging operating results for the quarter ended September 30. The construction of the new factory will start in 2016, and the project is ex
Natural Power has invested in a wind farm modelling software. The company said its technical team has been developing new models for a more accurate prediction of wind farm performance and has produced results from its computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models at wind farm scale within five to six d
DONG to Build World’s Biggest Offshore Wind Farm DONG Energy decided to construct the 660MW Walney Extension offshore wind farm, located in the Irish Sea, approximately 19 km off the west coast of Britain. Van Oord: Dredging Companies Venturing into Offshore Wind (Interview) During the Offshore Ener
Norwegian energy company Statoil has made the final investment decision to build the Hywind Scotland Pilot Park, the world’s first floating wind farm, offshore Peterhead in Aberdeenshire, after Scotland gave the project the go-ahead yesterday. The decision triggers investments of around NOK 2 billio
