National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), southern Taiwan, launched its floating LiDAR, an offshore wind resource assessment buoy, May 24, at Tainan Hydraulics Laboratory. “It is the Asia No. 1 and World No.4 of Floating LiDAR applications in wind profiler measurement at sea,” said NCKU President Hwung
AMSC, a global solutions provider serving the wind and power grid industry, has announced that China’s Supreme People’s Court has scheduled a hearing for May 29, 2013 to review the jurisdiction of AMSC’s software copyright infringement cases against Sinovel Wind Group Co, Ltd (Sinovel) and Guotong E
On May 3rd, 2012, Makani drafted specifications for a ground station from which its 30 kW airborne wind turbine could be deployed. On May 9th, 2013, after a year of mechanical design, fabrication and testing, the team completed the first-ever fully autonomous flight of a kite power system. The airbo
Makani Power recently announced that it is being acquired by Google. The Makani Airborne Wind Turbine is a tethered wing that generates power by flying in large circles where the wind is stronger and more consistent. It eliminates 90% of the material used in conventional wind turbines, and can acces
The Surface Effect Ship (SES) – Offshore Service Vessel concept from Umoe Mandal (Stand R11 at Seawork 2013) is part of the next generation of offshore wind farm service vessels. The SES is lifted by an air cushion enclosed by side hulls and flexible rubber sealing aft and in the bow. By utilising t
When Mantsbrite (stand A173 at Seawork 2013) became the sole UK distributor of the David Clark Marine Wireless Headset Communications Systems in 2012, one of the first users was fellow Seawork exhibitor Tidal Transit (V32). Some years earlier, Tidal Transit had realised that offshore wind farm devel
Responding to today’s announcement from Energy Minister, Fergus Ewing, that an £18m Marine Renewables Commercialisation Fund (MRCF), will be used to provide support for the wave sector, Lindsay Leask, Senior Policy Manager for Scottish Renewables, said: “We warmly welcome the Scottish Government’s r
The Scottish Government today announced that the Carbon Trust will be running a new dedicated wave programme to help commercialise wave power in Scotland. The new scheme was announced by Scottish Energy Minister Fergus Ewing at the All Energy conference in Aberdeen. The £18m Marine Renewables Commer
After the news that Aquamarine Power has received full consent from the Scottish Government for a 40MW wave farm off the north-west coast of Lewis in Scotland, we bring you the following animation video of the wave farm: [mappress] Offshore WIND Staff, May 22, 2013
The Crown Estate has announced plans to lease further wave and tidal sites in a bid to encourage and accelerate technology development. In line with responses to its recent industry engagement exercise, the leasing will focus on test and demonstration projects to be installed in waters around the UK
The ScottishPower Renewables (SPR) owned Pelamis P2 wave energy converter has this week completed its first year of a robust testing programme at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Orkney. The combined P2 test programme has now accumulated 7500 grid connected operating hours, and exported 1
A case study on the fact the Dogger Bank meteorological mast project, the first in the UK to use a “human-free” technique to place the lattice tower of the mast on top of the awaiting foundation, is now available on the website. Lightweight plastic cones and video cameras were affixed to the tower s
International marine engineering company SeaRoc have announced updated contract figures for their marine monitoring and management system SeaPlanner – the web-based software designed specifically for the offshore industry by a team of leading software designers and marine construction professionals.
Industry-leading wind lidar company ZephIR Lidar have confirmed, to the best of their knowledge, the world’s first simultaneous measurements taken upwind and downwind of a wind turbine for the Technical University of Denmark, Wind Energy department, formerly known as Risø DTU. The measurements were
