MPI Offshore have been announced as the inaugural winner of the Offshore Renewables award at the recent Annual Offshore Support Journal awards held in London. The company was given the award for its new generation of wind turbine installation vessels. Peter Robinson, Managing Director said: “We are
This year Amarcon noticed an increase in orders for her hydrodynamic analysis software: OCTOPUS-Office. In the last few months major companies within the maritime industry like Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industry Co., Ltd. (ZPMC), Mammoet and RWE Innogy placed an order for the software. Newcomer within
Reference is made to Vestas Wind Systems A/S company announcement No. 7/2012 of 8 February 2012, which informed that the Vestas chairmanship, Mr Bent Erik Carlsen and Mr Torsten Erik Rasmussen, and board member Mr Freddy Frandsen, will not stand for re-election for the Board of Directors at the Annu
South Boats Special Projects Ltd. announced the launch and commissioning of its 52nd offshore wind farm crew transfer vessel, ‘Abersoch Bay’ to Turbine Transfers Ltd. Designed as a technology demonstration vessel to ‘live test’ new solutions for the industry, ‘Abersoch Bay’ incorporates equipment th
Piling has started on the site of a new £35m wind turbine drive train testing facility at Narec in Northumberland. 292 piles will be drilled to 19m deep, ranging from 450mm diameter to 900mm diameter. When commissioned in summer 2013, the 15MW capacity test facility will be the most advanced of its
Installed wind power capacity continued to grow around the world last year despite the ongoing financial uncertainty with Europe remaining the number one regional leader, according to a new report. Europe’s installed wind capacity increased by 10,281 MW to 96,616 MW by the end of 2011, the Global Wi
Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound released statement regarding the NStar agreement to buy 27.5% of Cape Wind. “Ratepayers, municipalities, and businesses will be saddled with increased electric bills because of the state’s arm-twisting to force NStar to purchase power from this wildly overpriced p
Prysmian Group, world leader in the energy and telecom cables and systems industry, has been awarded a record contract worth approximately 800 million Euro, the highest value ever awarded in the cable business, for the development of Western HVDC Link, a new submarine High Voltage Direct Current (HV
Gov. Martin O’Malley is getting a lot of support for his incentive to erect wind turbines offshore Maryland’s coast. Former Iowa Gov. Chet Culver came on Tuesday to Annapolis to testify in support of O’Malley’s offshore wind bill. He said that wind turbines in Iowa have helped stabilize electricity
In the fourth quarter of 2011, Statkraft achieved an underlying1 operating profit before depreciation (EBITDA) of NOK 3028 million, compared with NOK 5686 million in the corresponding quarter in 2010. As a result of unrealised changes in value for energy contracts and write-downs on production asset
Gov. Deval Patrick announced yesterday that Nstar will buy 27.5% of electricity from the offshore wind project Cape Wind. If this offshore wind farm does not start spinning by 2016, Nstar will not have to buy electricity from Cape Wind, but it will need to find equal amount of clean energy from some
As part of the Roosevelt Island Tidal Energy project, 30 turbines are being installed along the strait that connects the Long Island Sound with the Atlantic Ocean in the New York Harbor. The project, led by Verdant Power, Inc., is the first ever commercially licensed tidal energy project in the Unit
A report from industry consultants, AMI Consulting, published in January 2012, calculates that the global demand for materials in the production of wind turbine blades grew by over 20% per annum in the last five years. The market for wind turbine blades has been one of the fastest growing of any com
Lowestoft College’s newly refurbished Engineering workshop and wind turbine training tower was officially opened by Waveney MP Peter Aldous on Friday 10 February. The new engineering workshop features state-of-the-art equipment which makes the college one of the leading engineering training centres
