Greensea has boosted its engineering team in its Plymouth, Massachusetts office to support its hull robotics program. James Truman, senior robotics engineer, is leading the development of Greensea’s hull crawling robot with precise hull-relative navigation and autonomy capabilities. Assisting James
SIMEC Atlantis’ MeyGen tidal turbine array has now exported 28GWh of energy to the national grid. MeyGen exported over 13.8GWh of renewable electricity in 2019, equivalent to the average annual electricity consumption of around 3800 typical UK homes, Atlantis informed. During 2019, Atlantis announce
CleanEarth has equipped Sonardyne global headquarters in Hampshire with over half a megawatt of solar generation. The subsea tech firm first explored the solar options with CleanEarth back in 2016. However, the SSE approved the connection in late 2019, due to the fault level issues at the nearby sub
Dutch energy company Eneco has joined as a partner the PosHYdon pilot, the world’s first offshore green hydrogen project, Neptune Energy said. Eneco will supply simulated wind data from its Luchterduinen offshore wind farm to support the project which aims to integrate three energy systems in the No
4Subsea has installed advanced, retrofit sensors on floating turbine Zefyros to prove cost reduction potential with a Digital Twin. The project aims to prove significant cost reduction potential in offshore wind by using a Digital Twin of the substructure to measure actual loads and fatigue on the t
Okeanus Science & Technology has expanded its portfolio of survey equipment with three side scan sonars from Klein Marine Systems. Specifically, Klein has delivered its System 4900, System 4000, and MA-X View 600 side scan sonars. The 300 metre rated 4900 systems operate with dual, simultaneous freq
A new study shows tidal power may be a significant resource for Faroe Islands to balance other renewable energy sources. This is the preliminary result of a PhD project on the energy balance and stability of the Faroese electrical system. PhD researcher, Helma Maria Tróndheim, said:“So far the resul
A new partnership between IMO, WCO, UNECE and ISO has been signed to support the increased maritime digitalisation.
In 2019 GE Renewable Energy announced that its Haliade-X 12 MW prototype, the world’s most powerful offshore wind turbine, located in Rotterdam-Maasvlakte, had successfully produced its first kWh. Local teams proceeded with the testing phase, during which GE will perform different types of measureme
China’s first 8 MW wind turbine has been installed at the Xinghua Bay Project Phase II off Fujian, the wind turbine maker Goldwind said. The GW175-8.0 unit was installed at the site on Tuesday, 28 April. According to Goldwind, it is the latest generation of large-capacity offshore wind turbines with
Norwegian solar energy company Ocean Sun has secured a US patent covering its solar power plants. United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will officially grant the patent in May this year. The company has also recently secured a DNV GL conformity statement for its floating solar design met
Olis Robotics has reached a new agreement with Aleron Subsea to lead sales, distribution and support of its machine-learning ROV manipulator controllers. The Olis Master Controller is providing value for ROV inspection, repair, and maintenance (IRM) operators. The controller’s intuitive interface, e
Teledyne CARIS and the Danish Geodata Agency (DGA) have completed the project to implement a new depth data management system. The scope of the project program included delivery of CARIS Bathy DataBASE, migration tools, system configuration and implementation. The project also delivered a range of t
Hydroid has been awarded $39,4 million modification to previously-awarded firm-fixed price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The contract is to exercise year one option for production support of the MK-18 Unmanned Underwater Vehicle systems. Work will be performed in Pocasset, Massa
