Boskalis Wraps Up Moray West Offshore Wind Farm Ops
by Siemens Gamesa.The project is aiming to be generate first power in 2024 with an operational life of over 25 years, according to Ocean Winds, which is a joint venture in charge of the development formed by Engie and EDP Renewables.Under the recent power purchase agreement signed with the developers, Amazon will source 473MW of clean power from the wind farm, which is more than half of its capacity.Nexans Completes Cable Pull-Ins at Moray West Offshore Wind FarmSiemens Gamesa Rolls Out First Moray West 14MW Offshore Wind Turbine NacellesDEME Installs First XXL Monopile for Moray West Offshore Wind FarmAmazon
Nexans Completes Cable Pull-Ins at Moray West Offshore Wind Farm
substation platform (OSP) for the project using its DP vessel Bokalift1. Two months later, DEME installed the first XXL monopile foundation as part of the project that will feature 60 Siemens Gamesa offshore wind turbines rated at over 14MW.Under the power purchase agreement signed with the developers, Amazon will source 473MW of clean power from the wind farm, which is more than half of its capacity.Siemens Gamesa Rolls Out First Moray West 14MW Offshore Wind Turbine NacellesDEME Installs First XXL Monopile for Moray West Offshore Wind FarmAmazon to Source 473MW of Clean Power from Scottish Offshore
Inside the Subsea Cable Firm Secretly Helping America Take on China
as the world’s preeminent superpower.SubCom, a company born out of a U.S. Cold War project to spy on Soviet submarines, is living a double life.Publicly, it is one of the world’s biggest developers of undersea fiber-optic cables for telecom firms and tech giants like Alphabet’s Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta Platforms.Behind the scenes, SubCom is the exclusive undersea cable contractor to the U.S. military, laying a web of internet and surveillance cables across the ocean floor, according to the four people with knowledge of the matter: two SubCom employees and two U.S. Navy staffers
Massive Bloom of Brown Seaweed Heads Toward Florida and the Caribbean
since 2011 – the first time that large aggregations of sargassum were detected from space? While climate change is warming ocean waters, and sargassum grows faster in warmer water, I believe it’s more plausible that the cause is a drastic increase in agricultural activity in the Brazilian Amazon.Scientists have shown that huge brown tides that were observed in the Gulf of Mexico in 2005 and 2011 were linked to nutrients carried down the Mississippi River. Now, intensive cattle ranching and soybean farming in the Amazon basin are sending rising levels of nitrogen and phosphorus into the Atlantic
Dutch Project to Grow Seaweed in Offshore Wind Farms Gets $1.6M from Amazon
Amazon.com has granted 1.5 million euros ($1.6 million) to a Dutch project testing the viability of commercially growing seaweed in between turbines of offshore wind farms, the company and organizers said on Thursday. The project, led by the non-profit group North Sea Farmers, will also research the potential of using seaweed for carbon capture. Hundreds of thousands of hectares (acres) of the Dutch North Sea have been earmarked for wind parks as the government seeks to build 21 gigawatts of offshore wind power by 2030 and will be closed for shipping. The spaces between the turbines
Saildrone Hires Cuyler as COO and Jones as Sales VP
Mark Cuyler, formerly of Amazon Last Mile, joins Saildrone as Chief Operating Officer, and Dennis Jones joins as VP of Sales.Saildrone announced two new leadership team members poised to help the company grow its operations and sales support efforts. The addition of Mark Cuyler as Chief Operating Officer and Dennis Jones as Vice President of Sales will help Saildrone to grow and scale ocean data solutions for maritime security, ocean mapping, and science.“Mark has a proven track record of building teams at startups, established OEMs, and new industry players, and Dennis brings to Saildrone an
UKHO Appoints Marion Leslie as Non-Executive Chair
Banking Group in 2019, Toothill has led enterprise transformation across risk, finance, people, payments, fraud and financial crime, supporting the Group’s aim to help Britain prosper and build the best bank for customers.Before joining Lloyds Banking Group, Toothill was Head of Enterprise at Amazon, with responsibility for developing Amazon’s payments solutions and evolving voice commerce experience on Alexa. She has also worked extensively across Europe as Senior Vice President for Visa. In that role, she created an omni-channel payment experience across in-store, online and mobile,
Scientists Come Closer to Solving Caribbean Seaweed Mystery
sewage and agricultural runoff carried by rivers to the ocean.The science is not yet definitive. This nutrient-charged outflow is just one of several likely culprits fueling an explosion of seaweed in warm waters of the Americas. Six scientists told Reuters they suspect a complex mix of climate change, Amazon rainforest destruction and dust blowing west from Africa’s Sahara Desert may be fueling mega-blooms of the dark-brown seaweed known as sargassum.In June 2018, scientists recorded 20 million metric tons of seaweed, a 1,000% increase compared with the 2011 bloom for that month.“There are
What's In Store for 2021? More Remote, More Data, More Autonomy
shore, says Chris Pearson, the UK’s National Subsea Centre director.Expect more sensors, data, analyticsIn the technology domain, the world is potentially equally as agile. Lee Wilson, who co-founded new company Honuworx at the start of 2020, says we now need to learn from the likes of Apple and Amazon and behave more like software companies, instead of sticking rigidly to a four-year technology roadmap and finding the world has changed at the end of it.So what does that involve? Expect there to be more sensors, data, and data analytics that will feed subsea robotics, automation, and remote hubs
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