The Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult (ORE Catapult) has identified specific technology innovation challenges for the wave and tidal energy industry, the resolution of which will help drive down the cost of offshore renewable energy, and have a positive impact on the UK economy. Identified via disc
In a bid to help reduce offshore wind energy costs by 40% by 2020, Tata Steel recently delivered 400 tonnes of 3D profiled and submerged arc welded (SAW) tubular steel to Bladt Industries. The Danish wind turbine foundation manufacturer will use the steel to build an innovative suction bucket founda
In the last months, SCHOTTEL successfully tested its hydrokinetic turbines in Strangford Lough, Northern Ireland. The full-scale tests included 260 operating hours under realistic conditions. One turbine with a rotor diameter of four meters generates 50 kW per second at a rated water velocity of 2.7
Humphree, the Swedish based manufacturer of Interceptor Trim Tabs, has introduced a system for Vessel Motion Monitoring, which provides monitoring of real time impact forces, vessel heave motions and sea sickness index with a possibility of complete data recording. Humphree has developed the Vessel
Foundation designer Seatower, that was awarded a contract delivering the world’s first CraneFree hybrid gravity base foundation earlier this year, confirmed the foundation will be loaded out from French port of Le Havre later this week. The installation of the single 1800 tonne, mainly concrete stru
Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. (OPT), has announced that the PB40 PowerBuoy® fabricated for the WavePort Project has shipped from Santander, Spain to Bayonne, NJ with the intent to deploy off the coast of New Jersey in the first quarter of 2015. The PowerBuoy is expected to arrive around mid-Novembe
John Weston, Member of Parliament for West Vancouver–Sunshine Coast–Sea to Sky Country, on behalf of the Honourable Greg Rickford, Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources and Minister for the Federal Economic Development Initiative for Northern Ontario, has announced an investment of $1.5 million und
eVision Industry Software has taken the next step in its partnership with Heerema. Today, Permit Vision goes live on the Thialf, the largest crane vessel in the world. Permit Vision allows Thialf management direct insight in and control of frontline operational risk, which is absolutely crucial to s
MHI Vestas Offshore Wind’s V164-8.0 MW prototype set a new benchmark for power production recently when the turbine produced 192,000 kWh in a 24 hour period, enough to power approximately 13,500 Danish households, demonstrating the full capability of the world’s most powerful wind turbine. The V164-
Vattenfall to enter race with Dong Energy for best and cheapest offshore wind turbines, writes Danish business daily Borsen. New Vattenfall head, Magnus Hall, will lower prices to match Dong Energy’s ambition to make offshore wind at least 40 per cent cheaper. Moreover, Hall is out to make Vattenfal
ASV and Planet Ocean are investigating how Autonomous Surface Vehicles (ASVs) can be used to reduce the cost of tasks related to the construction, operation and maintenance (O&M) of offshore wind farms. The project, funded by GROW:OffshoreWind and supported by the Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN), w
RES Offshore has successfully completed its first Engineer Procure Construct (EPC) contract for the design and installation of Met Mast for the West of Duddon Sands Offshore Wind Farm. Having been awarded the contract in June 2013, RES has project managed the design, fabrication and installation of
Barge Master is nearing the completion of the construction of the first BM-T40 system. On the 14th of October, the Barge Master motion compensated knuckle boom crane pedestal was installed on the new Wagenborg Walk-to-Work vessel, designed and built by Royal Niestern Sander. The vessel and Barge Mas
TC’s Energy will hold a ceremony for the wave energy project being developed jointly by TC’s Energy and Swedish company Seabased AB at the Ghanaian town of Ada. The event will mark the commencement of the project on 17th October at District Assembly Office in Ada Foah. TC’s Energy and Seabased have
