Final preparations are underway for a major international ocean energy conference, set to take place in Orkney next week. The two-day Global Ocean Energy symposium – part of a programme of events aimed at celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Orkney based European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) – wi
JECS Access Limited`s offshore division which operates its business activities across Europe from its offices in the United Kingdom & Germany has been accepted into the European Wind Energy Association after the EWEA`s membership board met and approved the companies application. JECS Access provides
With 270GW of wind installations worldwide, wind has clearly entered the mainstream. Over 70% of top owners view wind as a key part of a diversified generation portfolio strategy, while 85% of these owners seek to add value throughout the development value chain all the way to O&M; demonstrating tha
On September 27, the “Observation and Evaluation Technology Research for Wind Resource and Hydrological Information of Offshore Wind Plant” project approved and established by China Guodian Corporation and completed by Zhongneng Power-Tech Development Co., Ltd. subordinate to China Longyuan Power pa
Measuring up to 6.5 meters in diameter, the largest wind mill so far is now ready for blast cleaning and painting at Bladt Industries. The work has commenced and is expected to finish in week 46. The 132 meter wind mill is going to function as a test mill in Østerild, Denmark. The work takes [&helli
When the ‘battle of the currents’ ended in the late 19th century with Westinghouse and the AC lobby victorious over Edison’s DC lobby, AC became the dominant means for transmission of electrical power; a method which was to remain dominant for over a century. AC, with the ability for stepping the vo
After winning the lease for 112,800 acres of federal land off the coast of Virginia to develop an offshore wind turbine farm last month, Dominion Virginia Power has received final approval for the project, writes the Associated Press. The bid was submitted to the U.S. Justice Department for a review
Due to the U.S. government shutdown, Salem Sound Coastwatch was forced to prolong today’s “Climate Change in New England” lecture, which was supposed to be held at the National Park Service’s Visitor Center. This is the second lecture in a row to be postponed after National Park Service’s Visitor Ce
Danish MT Højgaard is speaking at the Offshore Wind Construction, Installation & Commissioning Conference in Hamburg from 14 to 15 October. On 14 October MT Højgaard will be giving a presentation on the study of the foundation types XL-monopiles and jackets – seen from an EPCI perspective. The prese
A seminar on overall dynamics of offshore wind turbines will be held on October 24, 2013 at 17 hrs in Bremerhaven, and the speaker will be Dr. Holger Black from Fraunhofer IWES. The seminar will provide the participants with basics of the overall system dynamics, ranging from the structure and funct
It was 12 months ago that the company responsible for building more wind farm support vessels than any other single boat yard was, following a period of financial uncertainty, acquired by Alicat workboats. Offshore WIND recently spoke to Ben Colman, the Sales and Marketing Manager for both South Boa
The operation to install the huge two-piece steel structure has been taking place over recent days 50m offshore from Methil’s Energy Park Fife. Once fully assembled and operational, the three blade, 7MW prototype turbine will be the world’s largest and most powerful installed turbine, with the tip o
Cutting edge wind scanning device, Galion Lidar, has been deployed on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico along the Texas coast to study the coastal wind resource in order to prospect for a potential offshore wind farm. SgurrEnergy’s flagship measurement device has begun a nine-month deployment by Bary
The topping-out ceremony will be celebrated for two new buildings on Heligoland today. The offshore wind farms Nordsee Ost (295 MW) of RWE Innogy and Meerwind Süd | Ost (288 MW) of WindMW GmbH, which are currently being built about 30 km north of the island, are to be operated and maintained over a
