Suffolk-based unexploded ordnance (UXO) specialist Ordtek has introduced an online map designed to aid the developers of offshore energy projects to determine the location of unexploded mines and bombs around the UK coastline. The Mine Map shares data about areas mined by the British and Germans dur
A report published today has provided strong evidence that the cost of energy from offshore wind in UK continued to fall through 2015 and remains on track to deliver the target of GBP 100/MWh by 2020. Of the 13 cost reduction indicators, all but one are ahead or on target with the milestone set for
The Netherlands-headquartered subsea inspection, maintenance and repair (IMR) services provider N-Sea, has signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) with CERES Recherches & Expertise Sous-Marine and TechSub Industrie Environement, to provide subsea survey, installation and remediation services to the French o
Developers interested in constructing the Sejerø Bugt nearshore wind farm will have to wait an additional month to file their final bids after an environmental impact assessment (EIA) suggested that the farm could affect a population of migratory sea ducks which winter in the area. In the assessment
Using High Wind’s Boom Lock tool to increase the wind speed limit for turbine component lifts from 11m/s to 16m/s leads to an average of 1.3% decrease in the levelised cost of energy (LCOE), a study carried out by BVG Associates on a representative 500MW wind farm has shown. An increase in the wind
A team of US-based researchers has teamed up with industry representatives in developing a new mooring system for floating offshore wind turbines that uses an integrated network of anchors and lines to hold dozens or even hundreds of turbines in place in the ocean in industrial-scale, offshore wind
Hull College Group (HCG) has launched the Hull College Group Composites Training Centre to help Siemens’ wind turbine blade factory workforce master manufacturing skills using composite materials. Around GBP 500,000 has been invested to convert a former construction skills facility on Hull’s Preston
Guangdong Jingyin Machinery Co. Ltd. and China Ming Yang Wind Power Group Limited have signed an agreement to cooperate on the development of offshore wind services through a joint-stock company – Zhejiang Huayun Hai Yang Engineering and Technology Services. The two companies agreed to collaborate o
Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems IKTS in Dresden have successfully tested in-house developed sensor rings designed to monitor the condition of wind turbine foundations at offshore wind farms. Working together with staff from Baltic Taucher in Rostock, the
Scotland-based wind data consultancy Oldbaum Services has completed a project to collect data for offshore wind energy projects off Japan by using an onshore scanning LiDAR. Oldbaum Energy carried out the project in partnership with NRG Renewables. The company installed the Leosphere W200S, a long r
Natural Power has acquired an aerial imaging surveyor, called the Trimble UX5. Whilst the system has been focussed on large wind and tidal renewable energy projects to date, it is ideally suited to any type of large or small scale project development, the company said. The new resource provides wide
GE’s electrical engineer Naresh Acharya is working on a system that could one day help utilities predict the amount electricity generated by inherently unpredictable renewable resources like wind and sun, and send as much of it as possible over the grid to consumers. Acharya is using software to pre
Siemens team of experts at Corporate Technology is developing technologies for storing electricity generated by renewables by transforming it into other forms of energy. Photovoltaic systems and wind turbines often produce more power than it is needed. Nevertheless, a transition to a new energy mix
Climate researchers at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) are coordinating a research project to study the interaction between wind farms and their potential effect on local climate in the North Sea. So far, mutual interactions of wind farms and their potential effects on local climate have bee
