TDI-Brooks Awarded Geotechnical Coring Project Off US East Coast
Avangrid has awarded TDI-Brooks a shallow water geotechnical site investigation survey at block OCS A-0508, also known as Kitty Hawk Wind. The data collected will inform the design of the export cable and inter-array packages.The scope of work includes utilizing a TDI-Brooks’ owned Datum Neptune 5K (pCPT) at 155 sites and a newly-designed TDI-Brooks pneumatic vibracorer (pVC) at 80 sites. The pVC is a light weight (4,600-lb in air), high power vibracorer and has been successfully deployed on the US East Coast >200 times for offshore wind farm (OSWF) projects. The pVC can be used for cores up
Wind Energy: The Good News in Offshore
Island (Deepwater Wind) or Maryland, where U.S. Wind Inc. plans a 248 MW project for 2020 and Skipjack Offshore Energy LLC’s a 120 MW windfarm due 2022. North Carolina in 2017 qualified nine companies to bid in its 7th offshore lease auction, and in March 2017 an auction for the Kitty Hawk Wind Energy Area, or WEA, for 122,405 acres went to Avangrid Renewables with a winning bid of $9.1 million. Projects now tend to dwarf the pioneering five-turbine, USD350 million Block Island project of 2014-2016. Aligning Fortunes BOEM checks the legal, financial and technical
BOEM's Jim Bennett Weighs in on US Offshore Renewables
Carolina – were very promising. The bids were substantial to say the least, based on our expectations, and it indicates that there is very strong industry interest in moving forward in a commercial basis offshore. (In mid-March it was announced that a Wind Energy Area of 122,405 acres offshore Kitty Hawk, N.C., received the high bid of $9,066,650 from Avangrid Renewables, LLC, the provisional winner. Also participating in the lease sale were Wind Future LLC, Statoil Wind US LLC and wpd offshore Alpha LLC.) Our discussion really has focused on offshore wind, and obviously there are other
Shell Bolsters Offshore Wind Interests with Bid in U.S. Tender
shortlisted by the U.S. government to make a bid for an offshore wind project licence in the waters off North Carolina, as it comes under pressure from shareholders to diversify into green energy. Shell, as well as Norway's Statoil, qualified to participate in the upcoming leasing round offshore Kitty Hawk, the U.S. interior ministry said on Tuesday. The lease award is set for March 16. Shell's core business of producing oil and gas is reeling after more than two years of weak prices. The company has limited experience in building offshore wind farms but last month won a bid to build a 700-megawatt
Lease Sale Proposed for Wind Energy Off North Carolina
for commercial wind energy leasing offshore North Carolina. The proposed lease, announced today by U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Director Abigail Ross Hopper as part of President Obama’s Climate Action Plan, is for the Kitty Hawk Wind Energy Area, which BOEM identified in consultation with its North Carolina Intergovernmental Renewable Energy Task Force and outreach with stakeholders. “This is an important and exciting milestone in our ongoing efforts to tap the vast wind energy resources along the Atlantic
Great Lakes Inks M.E., N.C. Coastal Protection Project Deals
to complete the base bid work on the Dare County Beach Nourishment Project for Dare County, North Carolina. Utilizing hopper dredges, approximately 4 million cubic yards of sand will be dredged and pumped on shore to replenish the coast in Dare County, North Carolina for the towns of Duck, Kitty Hawk, and Kill Devil Hills. Work is expected to commence on this project in the spring of 2017 and is expected to be completed by the fall 2017. The award is contingent on approval from the Local Government Commission. President of Dredging Operations David Simonelli stated, “Great
NOAA Satellites Helped Save 253 People in 2013
by Florida, with 56; In Alaska, six passengers on a small plane were rescued after it crashed near mountainous terrain outside of Le Conte Bay, Alaska; Four crewmen, ejected from a B-1 bomber before it crashed, were rescued in Broadus, Mont.; and A boater was rescued off the coast of Kitty Hawk, N.C., after he sustained a head injury. “Each life we save underscores the undeniable value of NOAA satellites,” said Mary Kicza, assistant administrator for NOAA’s Satellite and Information Service. When a NOAA satellite finds the location of a distress signal
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