NASA Earth Observatory has released an image of the world’s largest offshore wind farm, the London Array, taken from space by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on the Landsat 8 satellite. The image was captured on April 28, 2013; twenty days after the wind farm became fully operational. In April las
ALE has completed the off-loading of eight components that will be assembled to create a prototype wind turbine for an offshore wind project in Fife. The 7mw prototype turbine is one of the largest in the worlwd with a nacelle height of 110m and a blade tip height of 196m from sea level. The project
Fishermen and business people from Kilkeel in Northern Ireland have teamed up and took advantage of the booming offshore wind and tidal energy industries. They formed the Kilkeel Collaborative Network, which represents fishermen and onshore service providers, and secured marine service contracts wor
A major new report has found record numbers of people are now employed in the renewable energy sector in Scotland. Scottish Renewables commissioned independent researchers to survey more than 540 companies in what is the most comprehensive study to date. The findings suggest 11,695 people are curren
Crane vessel VIDAR has started loading the first AREVA rotor stars for the offshore wind farm Global Tech I yesterday. The pre-assembly of the almost sixty metres long rotor blades and the nacelle was accomplished at the terminal site of the JadeWeserPort, adjacent to the ship. Following loading, th
Town of Barnstable, local businesses, residents, and the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound (APNS) filed a lawsuit to the U.S. District Court yesterday against NSTAR’s no-bid contract to purchase electricity from Cape Wind offshore wind farm. The lawsuit against Massachusetts regulators, NSTAR, and
Avanti has built a training tower for effective training anytime. A working turbine must be stopped in order for technicians to work or train in the tower, thus increasing downtime costs, unlike the new training tower which can be used without costly downtime. The new training tower is built at Avan
Mojo Maritime has signed, on 16 January, a Memorandum of Understanding with Hammonia Reederei GmbH & Co. KG, a major German ship owner and manager, to finance and build the Hi Flo 4, the first ship in a completely new class of offshore construction vessels. As a result, Mojo and Hammonia, along with
North Lincolnshire Council has raised its objection to the Associated British Ports’s plan to develop Immingham Western Deepwater Jetty (IWDJ), writes the Grimsby Telegraph. ABP is planning to develop IWDJ on land, previously earmarked for the development of the £450-million Able Marine Energy Park,
Designs for an iconic offshore visitor, operations and maintenance building have been finalised, providing an educational, cultural and leisure base for local people and the 100,000 visitors expected to want to come and see Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon each year once it is up and running in 2018. The 3,
A tiny bat, ringed in the UK, found in Netherlands, 600 kilometres (as the bat flies) from where it was ringed, has provided the first record of a bat crossing the sea from the UK to mainland Europe! Bat experts in the Netherlands and the UK are working together to learn more about this remarkable [
A rotating cylindrical float (spar buoy) is the turbine shaft of vertical axis wind turbine. Because the weight of rotor is directly supported by buoyancy, the concept is suitable for huge floating offshore wind turbine. The name of the concept is Floating Axis Wind Turbine (FAWT). The video shows t
Deutsche WindGuard, German company specializing in wind energy project development and consulting, analyzed the status of the offshore wind energy development for the year 2013 in Germany, on behalf of VDMA Power Systems and the German Wind Energy Association (BWE). According to Deutsche WindGuard,
CT Offshore and Gwynt y Môr Offshore Wind Farm Limited have signed an agreement, covering free-laying, installation and burial of 63 cables of the in total 161 inter-array cables at one of Europe’s largest offshore wind farms. The cable laying and installation will be conducted by the company’s own
