Cabling specialist VSMC, a joint VolkerWessels and Boskalis company has been awarded a contract by EPC contractor Van Oord Offshore Wind Projects bv to install and bury a 25km long export cable for the Eneco Luchterduinen Offshore Wind Farm. The Eneco Luchterduinen Offshore Wind Farm, to be built by
Dong Reviews Its Offshore Wind Plans for Germany Faced with reduced funds for German offshore wind energy, Dong Energy has been revising its plans in Germany, with a possibility of scaling them back, writes the German manager magazin online edition. Photo of the Day: Siemens’ Offshore Wind Infograph
Mainstream Renewable Power have kicked off Phase 2 of their floating LiDAR campaign by deploying a floating LiDAR on its 450MW Neart na Gaoithe offshore wind farm. Technology providers FLiDAR NV (a joint venture between DEME and 3E), deployed the device almost 21km off the Fife coast on April 20th.
The Dolwin Beta project is now entering its final phase of construction at the Drydocks World yard in Dubai, with 2.5 million man hours without lost time incidents. This outstanding HSE result has been celebrated at Aibel’s subcontractor Drydocks World. “Behind the result is a lot of hard work. But
Sustainable Marine Energy (SME) is the newest member of Ocean Energy Europe. Based in the Isle of Wight, Sustainable Marine Energy is a developer of an integrated support structure for tidal energy convertors – PLAT-O. PLAT-O, addresses the sectors two biggest challenges: Dramatically reducing insta
The installation work on HelWin beta jacket is nearing completion, after all six piles had been driven into the seabed. Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG) said that the levelling of the piles and welding them to the jacket is about to start soon. The 4,500-tonne jacket took its position last week. HFG’
Commenting on the UK government’s announcement that it has approved five offshore wind farm projects, Adrian Scholtz, head of renewables at KPMG said: “The government’s announcement to approve five offshore wind farms puts the UK back in the driving seat, ahead of Germany and France. The industry mu
INORE will be hosting a workshop at the OMAE conference 2014 in San Francisco in collaboration with the UC Berkley students and MI&T, at the University of California, Berkley. This workshop it is going to be celebrated on the last day of the conference, Friday the 13th of June in the afternoon (from
The UK’s National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has published a Good Practice Guide for Underwater Noise Measurement, giving guidance on best practice for in-situ measurement of underwater sound, for processing the data, and for reporting the measurements using appropriate metrics. From a scientific poi
A new roadmap developed by the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) and the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) has identified the research and development areas that need to be addressed to make marine energy cost competitive with other energy technologies. Marine energy resources, consisting of wave
Deutsche Offshore-Testfeld und Infrastruktur GmbH & Co. KG (DOTI), based in Oldenburg, Germany, has chartered two passenger transport vessels from Frisia-Offshore. The vessels, which will need to carry at least 24 people and a maximum of two passenger cars, are chartered for the transfer of people a
The welcome news that Siemens plans a £160 million expansion to manufacture turbines in East Yorkshire, plus the UK Green Investment Bank’s (GIB) investment in the Westermost Rough project off the Yorkshire coast, must be balanced against high costs and risks but low confidence levels that could sti
The U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development Matt Erskine has announced a $200,000 U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) grant to the New Bedford Economic Development Corporation, in New Bedford, Massachusetts. The grant will support the creation of an advanced p
The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU) has rejected Fishermen’s Energy’s appeal on the BPU’s decision to deny the construction of an offshore wind farm off the coast of Atlantic City. The company said that it will take the case to the court. “We are disappointed in this decision, but not sur
