The Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult is looking for a UK-based university with which to collaborate on accelerating offshore wind turbine blade research and development activities through the recently launched Wind Blade Research Hub. The collaboration would provide a combination of academic
Niras Consulting Ltd (Niras) will be undertaking a benthic drop down camera and Day grab survey for scientific monitoring purposes to the south, west and within the 576MW Gwynt y Môr wind farm site offshore Wales during October 2016, according to a notice to mariners. Niras will use the vessel Aquad
Scottish SMEs have an ‘enormous opportunity’ to develop wind farm technology and exploit global markets thanks to a new programme giving access to the country’s leading researchers and testing facilities, according to Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult. The Energy Technology Partnership (ETP)
German wind energy services provider REETEC has presented the newly developed REETEC Multi Connection Cabinet (RE-MCC) for offshore wind turbines at WindEnergy Hamburg 2016. The system had been developed based on REETEC’s experience in the field service and in the context of aviation obstruction mar
Germany’s Minister for Economics Sigmar Gabriel has officially opened the second edition of WindEnergy Hamburg, a biennial trade fair focussing on wind energy. The WindEnergy Hamburg 2016 will run from September 27 to September 30 in Hamburg’s fairgrounds where over 1,200 exhibitors from 34 countrie
German renewables specialists 8.2 Consulting AG was contracted to assess the performance of Siemens Wind Power during the assembly of the 150 Siemens 4MW turbines built for the 600MW Gemini offshore wind farm in the Dutch part of the North Sea. The assessment focused on timeliness for assembly of hu
The University of Bristol, UK, has appointed Ervin Bossanyi, Senior Principal Researcher Renewables at DNV GL, as Visiting Industrial Professor within the University’s Department of Aerospace Engineering. Dr Bossanyi will help the university align its research programme with the needs of the renewab
Shoreline will be launching a new user interface for the cloud based installation, completion, commissioning, trial and O&M simulation tools during WindEnergy held in Hamburg this week. The new user interface has been developed based on input and suggestions from a wide variety of existing SIMSTALL
Ztechnologies has reported that it completed sea trials for its new Zbridge offshore access system, which had been tested during the summer in the North Sea. The company said that the tests, the last in a series of trials, proved an excellent performance of the compensation system which reduces all
SeaRoc Group has announced the hiring of a new Business Analyst to take the lead on client focused product development. Mark Lawrence has been confirmed as the new Software Business Analyst who will be responsible for building the roadmap of development for the company’s SeaPlanner software solution
Horns Rev 3 Mine Goes Out With a Bang (Videos) Vattenfall has shared two videos of a WW2 mine with a 700kg explosive charge being unearthed from the seabed where Denmark’s 400MW Horns Rev 3 offshore wind farm will be constructed, and subsequently detonated. DONG Energy to Set Up UK’s Largest O&M Hub
With a budget of DKK 64 million (approx. EUR 8.6 million), the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) is leading a major research project involving five of the country’s universities which will set up two new drone laboratories in collaboration with HCA Airport in Odense. The new drone laboratories th
Innogy Renewables UK, part of innogy SE – the new subsidiary of RWE, has chosen Met Office’s new VisualEyes software to provide weather forecast information across 36 of its renewable energy sites in the UK, including one offshore wind site. Under the a three-year contract, the Met Office’s intuitiv
Nexans has given a boost to its high voltage direct current (HVDC) cable portfolio with cross-linked polyethylene (XLPE) insulation designs now fully qualified for 320kV and type-tested at 525kV, and mass impregnated paper insulation now ready for 600kV. HVDC power links are now able to utilize Nexa
