Natural Power’s marine renewables team have been working with Shetland Islands Council over the past 12 months to map their marine renewable resources as a follow on to the Council’s successful Marine Spatial Planning exercise and are looking forward to publishing the results in the spring of 2011.
In February 2010 Seajacks entered into a contract with GustoMSC to provide the Basic Design Package for two purpose built wind farm installation vessels. In June 2010 Seajacks entered into a contract with Lamprell shipyard to build these new vessels and Seajacks will take delivery of the first new-b
ANTARCTICA’S Commonwealth Bay is widely acknowledged as the windiest place on earth, with winds often reaching speeds of more than 200mph. By Ian Forsyth (powergenworldwide) [mappress] Source: powergenworldwide, February 14, 2011
Gamesa Technology Corp., a global wind energy company, and the shipbuilding operations of Northrop Grumman Corp., America’s largest …. (marinelink) [mappress] Source: marinelink , February 14, 2011
Alstom and LM Wind Power this week announced plans to jointly develop the world’s longest wind turbine blades for offshore wind turbines. (energyonline) [mappress] Source: energyonline, February 11, 2011
DeTect, Inc. has announced that it has received an order from the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) for two MERLIN Avian Radar Systems. The bird radar systems will be delivered to the USFWS Great Lakes – Big Rivers Region 3 in March 2011 and will be primarily used by the service to assess and [&
Grontmij in the Netherlands has developed a concept known as the Sand wind turbine, according to which wind turbines are able to generate energy to transport sand, through pipelines, to the shoreline. Grontmij is further elaborating this concept with the Dutch Department of Transport, Public Works a
There are pros and cons when it comes to building an offshore wind turbine field in South Carolina, and there’s no shortage of opinions when… (carolinalive) [mappress] Source: carolinalive, February 09, 2011
Technip, a French-based oil and gas engineering company, and Nenuphar, a wind-power startup, announced that they will soon launch Vertiwind,… By Katie Gatto (physorg) [mappress] Source: physorg, February 08, 2011
Dredging International and MEDCO, have been awarded a contract for mixed dredging and civil engineering works to construct two artificial energy islands, including their service harbours, aimed to provide Abu Dhabi with energy based on facilities for oil drilling, etc. from the previously untapped o
Gamesa has further enhanced its customer-focused strategy with the launch of a new website exclusively reserved for all of the company’s operation and maintenance services customers, who total more than 130 clients and over 12,000 MW of wind assets worldwide. Using Gamesa’s new services web portal,
Wind turbines attached to floating buoys can harness stronger, more sustained winds in the open ocean. But the floats now used for such… By Phil McKenna (technologyreview) [mappress] Source: technologyreview, February 04, 2011
The global move to offshore wind farm development is enabling nations to accelerate wind energy adoption while reducing reliance on land-… (sbwire) [mappress] Source: sbwire, February 03, 2011
Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “Analyzing Offshore Wind Energy in the United States” report to their offering. (businesswire) [mappress] Source: businesswire, February 03, 2011
