As announced yesterday, Ofgem has awarded GBP 46.4 million for eight energy-related projects. Among them, a company running transmission assets of the Ormonde offshore wind farm proposes to develop an offshore cable repair vessel and universal cable jointing system in a way that would significantly
The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) Ltd has been approved as an assessor under the EU’s Environmental Technology Verification (ETV) scheme and will be checking claims about the performance of innovative environmental technologies. The EMEC will issue a Statement of Verification at the end of th
Fast-growing offshore company Red7Marine Offshore has expanded its subsea services to North Sea clients by investing in a fleet of remotely operated vehicles (ROVs). The investment – part of a £25 million investment in equipment this year – secures more skilled jobs at its Great Yarmouth base. The R
Wave energy developer Carnegie Wave Energy Limited has announced that the first of its new generation CETO 5 wave energy units has been installed and is operating at its Perth Wave Energy Project site off Garden Island, Western Australia. The CETO 5 unit was installed on the first attempt and has no
Tests on the 1:5 scaled NEMOS prototype running from July through October in Danish Limfjord have been completed. The company implemented the complex control strategies, the automatisation of the hole systems as well as all components proved to be reliable. During the testing, funded by Danish Nissu
Last week North Sea Systems started carrying out trials of their CableFish® survey platform at EMEC. This is the culmination of the MRCF Project, managed by the Carbon Trust and funded by the Scottish Government. CableFish® will offer a survey capability that enables cable laying operations to be ex
K2 Management has been awarded with an assignment from DBD Systems to assist on the design, engineering and project development on its floating foundation technology. Starting up K2 Management will, according to its US Managing Director Carsten Jensen, provide specific offshore project development a
Scotland is to establish a wave energy technology development body to encourage innovation in the industry, Minister for Business, Energy and Tourism Fergus Ewing has announced. Wave Energy Scotland will bring together the best engineering and academic minds to collaborate in a research and developm
Deltares will be testing the design for the planned tidal lagoon in Swansea Bay, South Wales. Incorporating sixteen turbines that can deliver 320 MW, the tidal lagoon will be the world’s largest. It will be built to scale in the facilities hall in Delft so that the hydrodynamic efficiency of the des
The Dutch grid operator TenneT has completed the last technical tests for the cable connection of Noordoostpolder wind farms. The work on the connection system included the construction of a high voltage substation at Westermeerdijk, the construction of a 110kV cable line that goes from Westermeerdi
Sustainable Marine Energy (SME) has successfully completed its first round of sea trials with its tidal energy platform, PLAT-O. The tidal energy industry has struggled with high costs for installation and maintenance but SME is demonstrating that by using its innovative platform which is moored und
Tranberg AS has announced the worldwide product launch of the new CHLITE Touchdown/Positioning Marking fully applying to CAP437, 7th Ed. with Amendment. The CHLITE Helideck Lighting Solution is a cooperation between Calzoni S.r.l. – founded 1834 in Bologna-Italy (today an L-3 Company) and Tranberg –
At the Scroby Sands wind farm off the east coast of England, a strategic decision has been made to internalise the operations and maintenance (O&M) of its offshore wind turbines. So when the gearboxes on three turbines were coming to the end of their working lives, Scroby Sands needed to arrange the
ABS Group,provider of technical solutions to support safe and reliable operations for high-performance assets in the energy and marine industries, has been selected as the Certified Verification Agent (CVA) for the Block Island Wind Farm Project off of Rhode Island, which is anticipated to be one of
