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Fukushima Experimental Offshore Floating Wind Farm Project Second Phase Update
A consortium comprised of Marubeni (project integrator), the University of Tokyo (technical advisor), Mitsubishi, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Japan Marine United, Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding, Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation, Hitachi, Furukawa Electric, Shimizu, and Mizuho Information & Research, has been participating in an experimental offshore floating wind farm ...
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Innovation in world´s largest floating wind farm by Siemens Gamesa can open new offshore areas
Five Siemens Gamesa turbines of Six-Megawatt-class have now been installed on floating foundations in Stord, Norway, at the 30 MW “Hywind Scotland” project – the world’s largest floating wind farm Strong collaboration between Siemens Gamesa and Norwegian company Statoil can make a new step towards unlocking offshore areas in the future and develop a niche into a large ...
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Eltek`s award-winning Rectiverter UPS System chosen by Siemens for Hywind project - world`s largest floating windfarm
The Hywind Scotland Pilot Park project, which is projected to be commissioned in 2017, will demonstrate advanced technical solutions on multiple floating wind turbines in a park located 25-30 km off the coast of northern Scotland. Eltek, today announced it has been chosen by Siemens to provide power solutions for the prestigious Hywind Scotland Pilot Park project. The agreement includes the ...
By Eltek AS
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Don’t throw caution to the wind with offshore turbine maintenance
The European Union’s push away from fossil fuels toward renewables, along with falling costs, has seen offshore wind thrive. And the sector is about to receive another boost, now that the focus on and investment in floating wind turbines is reaching fruition. This incredible feat of engineering has the potential to totally reshape offshore renewables, allowing for greater volumes of ...
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Japan to base renewable energy village in Fukushima’s contaminated farmland
The project aims to combine the development of solar installations with agricultural progress in the region and the community-run programme in the city of Minamisoma already has 120 solar panels generating 30 kilowatts of power. The "solar sharing" concept, whereby crops are grown beneath raised solar panels, could revitalise agricultural production in the wake of the Fukushima disaster and earn ...
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Bombora completes tank testing of a floating hybrid energy platform
As part of the EuropeWave Programme, Bombora Wave Power (Bombora) has successfully completed tank testing of a floating foundation system suitable for the InSPIRE solution, where mWave technology is combined with a wind turbine onto a single floating offshore platform. An adapted version of the semi-submersible INSPIRE platform, developed in partnership with TechnipFMC, underwent tank testing ...
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Offshore Wind Energy Market Worth to Reach Reach USD 87.5 Billion by 2026
According to the Research Report, The global offshore wind energy market in 2019 was approximately USD 36.07 Billion. The market is expected to grow above a CAGR of 13.5% and is anticipated to reach over USD 87.5 Billion by 2026. Also called as offshore wind power, offshore wind energy is the renewable energy production from the wind farms constructed off the shore to harvest wind energy for ...
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Oregon offshore wind energy farm project announced
A Seattle company is being given the green light to develop plans to build the West Coast's first offshore wind energy farm - five floating turbines off Oregon's Coos Bay, federal and state officials said Wednesday. The 30-megawatt pilot project was announced at a press conference by Gov. John Kitzhaber, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Director ...
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Floating wind sector urged to copy onshore manufacturing model to cut costs
To compete on costs with fixed-bottom offshore wind and other renewables, the floating wind industry should industrialize the foundation in the same way it has manufactured and commoditized the turbines for onshore wind, according to Henrik Stiesdal, wind energy pioneer and former CTO of Siemens Windpower. Stiesdal told Wind Energy Update that a “quantum leap” on floater designs ...
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GE launches 5.3 MW onshore wind turbine; Floating wind study calls for `urgent` port spending
GE launches 5.3 MW onshore wind turbine with efficiency, logistics gains GE Renewable Energy is to release a new 5.3 MW onshore wind turbine which includes improvements in energy output, installation, and maintenance efficiency compared with earlier models, the company announced September 24. Larger, higher efficiency turbines and growing installation experience have dramatically reduced wind ...
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Japan starts up offshore wind farm near Fukushima
Japan switched on the first turbine at a wind farm 20 kilometers (12 miles) off the coast of Fukushima on Monday, feeding electricity to the grid tethered to the tsunami-crippled nuclear plant onshore. The wind farm near the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant is to eventually have a generation capacity of 1 gigawatt from 143 turbines, though its significance is not limited to the energy it ...
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New ideas give energy boost to wave power
All along the coasts of Europe where the Atlantic waves crash onto the shore there are experimental wave power stations producing electricity. Now engineers in Norway and Sweden − two of the countries trying hardest to develop this technology − have announced “breakthroughs” in their methods, which the inventors believe will make wave power competitive. At present, most ...
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Scottish Government announces £2.2 million to cut costs for offshore wind
A project to cut the cost of offshore wind by at least 10% is being awarded £2.2 million by the Scottish Government, First Minister Alex Salmond has announced. The Carbon Trust’s Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA) programme, a joint industry and government scheme, brings together nine offshore wind developers with over 72% (31GW) of the UK’s licensed capacity. The project aims to ...
By Carbon Trust
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Floating wind developers focus on lean multiples as competition mounts
Floating wind developers are cutting design weight, maximizing onshore build capability and gaining lender support, but the jump to commercial arrays will require state-level measures, industry experts said. On October 5, Shell, Innogy and Stiesdal Offshore Technologies (SOT) signed a cooperation agreement to build a demonstration floating wind project using SOT’s modular ...
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CSignum Announces Completion Of Real-World Testing For Innovative Solution As Part Of Carbon Trust’S Floating Wind Project Supported By Scottish Government Funding
CSignum Ltd., the global leader in smart communications solutions, subsea asset digitization, and actionable insights for ocean industries; announced today the testing of the prototype solution developed with Tfl Marine as part of the Floating Wind Technology Accelerator Competition (FLW TAC) was successful. Tfi have developed a unique Sea Spring to reduce snatch and fatigue loads on floating ...
By CSignum
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Offshore wind critical to secure Japan’s energy security, and continued focus on RD&D needed, says the Carbon Trust
Japan’s offshore wind industry needs to accelerate Research, Development and Deployment (RD&D) efforts to reduce the country’s exposure to the highly volatile costs of imported energy and secure its future energy supply, according to a series of reports released today by the Carbon Trust. Japan’s offshore wind industry needs to accelerate Research, Development and ...
By Carbon Trust
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U.S. Department Of Energy Finds Record Production And Job Growth In U.S. Wind Power Sector
The U.S. Department of Energy this week (Aug 16) released three reports showing that wind power remains one of America's fastest growing energy sources and a generator of high-quality jobs. Wind power accounted for 32% of U.S. energy capacity growth in 2021, employs 120,000 Americans, and now provides enough energy to power 40 million American homes. The 2021 wind market reports show that the ...
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Millions of Euros for innovative wind energy demonstration projects
A call for renewable energy project funding, which potentially totals tens of millions of Euros under NER300, was launched by the European Commission today. NER300 is the EU's funding programme for innovative demonstration projects for renewable energy and carbon capture and storage (CCS). However while no CCS projects qualified for funding as part of the first call in 2011, renewables projects ...
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SgurrEnergy advises on investment in world’s first floating offshore wind farm
SgurrEnergy, part of Wood Group’s clean energy business, acted as technical advisor for the investment in Hywind floating offshore wind farm. Located off the coast of Peterhead in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, it is the world’s first multi-turbine floating offshore wind farm. This project is an important milestone between demonstration and full commercialisation of floating wind. ...
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Favorable Winds Blow for Offshore Wind Power, Says Frost & Sullivan
Future prospects to depend on novel developments in foundation solutions Wind energy is the most mature technology among all renewable energy solutions. Finding appropriate sites for developing onshore wind farms might, however, soon pose a challenge due to dense urbanization (especially in western Europe) and concerns about the negative visual impact that wind farms could have on the ...
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