Having gotten off to a flying start, the SeaGen 2.0MW test programme at The National Renewable Energy Centre, Narec continues to prove its success. Siemens-owned MCT delivered the prototype powertrain and all associated equipment to the Narec facility in June 2013. Since that time, a large variety o
The Carbon Trust is looking for an offshore wind farm consultancy services to study which gravity base structures could reduce offshore wind cost more, lifted or floated. Gravity Base Structures (GBS), in terms of potential cost reduction, have very promising foundations concepts for wind turbine ge
The Carbon Trust is seeking a contractor to undertake an offshore wind farm R&D study, called ‘The Maximising Lifetime Asset Integrity Study’. It is becoming more apparent within the Offshore Wind industry that several operating offshore wind farms are experiencing a higher level of structural issue
Gwind, the floating gyro stabilized Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT) for offshore and near-shore applications, was launched this week in the Stavanger Harbor area, Klasaskjer. The project is managed by TTO office Prekubator, while CMR Prototech and the University of Stavanger are partners in execut
As part of the Obama Administration’s all-of-the-above strategy to deploy every available source of American energy, the Energy Department today announced $16 million for seventeen projects help sustainably and efficiently capture energy from waves, tides and currents. Together, these projects will
Fistuca has announced that it had finished a series of successful near-shore piling tests with a 2.2m prototype. Two piles have been driven, a Ø2.2 meter open-ended pile and a Ø0.7 meter closed-ended pile. Extensive measurements of underwater sound levels and pile driving properties have been perfor
At today’s joint press conference of the German Wind Energy Association (BWE) and VDMA Power Systems held in Berlin, Deutsche WindGuard presented the current data on the status of wind energy development in Germany. In the first half of 2013 there were 406 wind turbines built onshore in Germany, wit
Maine Maritime Academy’s Tidal Energy Demonstration and Evaluation Center (TEDEC) in Castine is becoming ever more interesting to overseas companies, which want to test their tidal power technology. TEDEC acquired a sought-after series of permits to test scale models of tidal power projects, which m
According to a new market research report of “HVDC Transmission Market – By Technology (LCC/VSC), Configuration (Back To Back, Monopolar, Bipolar, Multi-Terminal), Power Rating (Below 500 MW, 501 MW – 999 MW, 1000 MW – 2000 MW & Above 2000 MW), Application, Component & Geography (2013 – 2018)”. The
Wind turbines are growing up. Environmental conditions for new locations are becoming more and more extreme, colder, and more salt-ridden due to offshore placement. At the same time, the turbines are getting bigger and bigger. This means that they need better reliability over longer periods of use.
Rick Arthur from GE wrote an article on the company’s website about a research that GE is conducting to solve the issue of ice accumulation on wind turbines and other offshore infrastructure operating in extremely cold environments: I’m excited to highlight some progress GE Research has made in mode
A new study of Prognos AG and The Fichtner Group arrives at the conclusion that the cost of electricity from offshore wind power can be reduced by about one third if offshore wind power is consistently developed over the next ten years. “The identified cost reduction potentials are based on the assu
The wind power market currently provides almost 3 percent of global electricity production. As the wind power industry matures, wind forecasting technologies are becoming critical in order to integrate greater amounts of variable wind energy into the grid. Meteorological towers, or met towers, the p
The past decade has witnessed massive developments in terms of regulations and markets for renewable energy. While less than 50 countries worldwide had renewable support policies in place in the early part of the last decade, this number has now reached over 120. Investments in renewables have also
