Alstom yesterday signed its first export contract with Deepwater Wind, the U.S. offshore wind developer. Under the contract, Alstom will provide five Haliade™ 150-6 MW wind turbines for the Block Island offshore wind farm. The contract also includes 15 years of operation and maintenance support for
The Fraunhofer IWES is building an oil sensor test stand in Bremerhaven, in order to better suit oil sensors to requirements of wind farm operators. Wind turbines are being increasingly equipped with oil sensors, which monitor the condition of the gearboxes. So called oil condition monitoring is bas
Principle Power’s WindFloat Pacific (WFP) floating wind project cleared its first major hurdle last week by getting approval from the US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), and by that automatically gained more attention from the public and media. One of the raised questions is the final use o
Mark Shorrock, Chief Executive of Tidal Lagoon Power, wrote a message to the public, after the company submitted an application for a Development Consent Order (DCO) for its Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon energy project: It’s been three years since we first began work on the proposed Swansea Bay Tidal Lag
Sustainable Marine Energy and a team of academics headed by Dr Florent Trarieux, Lecturer in Offshore Engineering at Cranfield University have recently completed a 12 month project developing an innovative deployment platform, PLAT-O, that substantially reduces the cost and risks associated with dep
Tidal Lagoon Power Ltd today submitted its application for a Development Consent Order (DCO) for Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon, under the Planning Act 2008. Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon would be the largest tidal power plant in the world. As a project of national significance, the application, which has been
Marine Energy Corporation has patented a new marine energy system called the “Wave Catcher Barge©”. The company claims that the barge can produce energy equivalent to four largest wind turbines, currently being Vestas’ V164-8.0 MW wind turbine. Anchored to the seabed, it generates energy by gliding
After being announced as imminent on several occasions in 2013, the construction of the floating wind turbine prototype Winflo has still not commenced. For this reason, DCNS and Nass & Wind have decided to reconsider the project. Initially, the developers were planning to deploy a small-scale demons
Innovative employees in DONG Energy’s wind business have found a new communication tool that makes it possible to communicate on offshore sites before cables have been uncoiled, and telecommunication poles have been installed. The solution is a small portable 10-foot container containing communicati
WaveRoller, the breakthrough wave energy device created by the wave energy developer AW-Energy, has received independent performance verification, taking the wave power industry one step closer to commercialization. An extensive study and performance verification was conducted by the leading technic
ABB, which has over 30 years of wind power experience, released a video that shows its wind power solutions. The company says that it delivers wind economy in every wind energy project it is involved in. ABB developed the world’s first circuit breaker for high voltage direct current (HVDC), which br
Alicat & South Boats IOW, the UK’s manufacturer of state of the art Wind Farm Service Vessels (WFSVs), has received a £5.5 million, two-workboat order from Lowestoft-based operator Iceni Marine Services. With Lowestoft having just been selected as the base for operations and maintenance for the plan
Enel Green Power (EGP) and 40SouthEnergy have begun the second phase of testing the R115 wave energy system at sea. The machine, which has been developed by 40SouthEnergy, will leave from the port of Livorno once again, this time completely assembled, to be tested offshore at Punta Righini before re
On January 7, the United States Patent and Trademark Office granted a patent for the GICON ®-SOF (Floating Offshore Foundation). Thus, the GICON ®-SOF ensured patent protection as an invention in the United States as well. The patent grant certificate entitled “Floating foundation supporting framewo
