The most compelling action to encourage offshore wind development in the United States is to have real live examples of successful offshore wind projects, Charles Nordstrom, a Senior Associate and Head of the US team at BVG Associates, told Offshore WIND in an interview. The first offshore wind farm
The most compelling action to encourage offshore wind development in the United States is to have real live examples of successful offshore wind projects, Charles Nordstrom, a Senior Associate and Head of the US team at BVG Associates, told Offshore WIND in an interview. The first offshore wind farm
Gupta family interests have committed to an eight-figure investment over time in the development of tidal lagoon power plants in the UK and India. The move is part of a wider strategy by Gupta company, SIMEC, to create multi-billion pound renewable energy capacity worldwide and apply innovative tech
Makai Ocean Engineering has released a new version of its software for planning and simulation of subsea power and telecom cable installations. MakaiPlan Pro 6.0 includes the tools of GIS cable route engineering software MakaiPlan, and allows the user to perform precise 3-D, dynamic simulations of a
Sea Worker Runs Aground off Denmark, Crew Evacuated Offshore installation vessel Sea Worker ran aground south of Denmark’s Hvide Sande on the night between 26 and 27 January while under tow to Esbjerg, A2SEA said in a statement. Interview: Adwen’s 8 MW Turbine an Arrow to Hit 100€/MWh by 2020 Target
Sea Worker Runs Aground off Denmark, Crew Evacuated Offshore installation vessel Sea Worker ran aground south of Denmark’s Hvide Sande on the night between 26 and 27 January while under tow to Esbjerg, A2SEA said in a statement. Interview: Adwen’s 8 MW Turbine an Arrow to Hit 100€/MWh by 2020 Target
Researchers at Norway’s SINTEF are currently working together with partners in Europe to develop sensors and lasers for a new underwater camera which can, reportedly, see two to three times further under water than existing cameras and calculate distances to objects. The new tool is designed to make
Jean Ballandras, a Senior Adviser of the French Minister of Foreign Affairs for Renewable Energies, visited National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) in Tainan, Taiwan, on January 27, to explore possible collaboration between the university and France. The university has, through its RCETS research cent
An international classification society, Bureau Veritas, has issued its first Approval in Principle for an Ocean Thermal Energy Converter (OTEC). The approval applies to a 1MW plant developed by the Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering (KRISO) which will be built for installation
Consultancy company Ecorys, in collaboration with Fraunhofer IWES, has been appointed by the European Commission DG Research and Innovation, to research the possibilities for the development of future wave and tidal energy resources. As part of the project, the companies will do fieldwork in countri
An oil and gas industry skills and workforce development body, OPITO, has appointed Graham Gall as new managing director to lead its international business. Gall is a former managing director of Falck Safety Services in Brazil. Prior to joining Falck, he was also standards and approvals director for
The Lyngby-based start-up CEKO Sensors Asp is launching an optical accelerometer which could detect early signs of malfunctions in blades and potentially lead to reduced O&M costs, according to the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). The sensor can withstand extreme environments, and it contains
ABB has won orders worth over $22 million from Vattenfall Eldistribution AB to upgrade the world’s first commercial high-voltage direct current (HVDC) power transmission link, which ABB installed in 1954. The orders were booked in the fourth quarter of 2015. The 150-kilovolt (kV) link has the capaci
UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office is funding a project under which a consortium of three British consultancies will support the Government of India in setting up its offshore wind industry. IT Power Consulting, CmY Consultants and SeaChange Offshore will deliver a 10-month long project that is focu
