Unlocking Ocean Power: $3.6M for Community-centric Wave Energy Converters
help provide renewable energy that addresses the needs and concerns of coastal and island communities and identifies paths to make wave energy technology competitive with solar and wind power.Waves are a vast source of untapped renewable energy. They could completely cover Alaska and Hawaii’s electricity needs and generate enough power along mainland U.S. coasts to keep the lights on in 130 million homes, or meet 35% of the country’s electricity demand, without any direct greenhouse gas emissions, according to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.Despite its promise, wave energy still can&rsquo
DemoSATH Floating Wind Platform Installed Offshore
;s single-point mooring turret.Works in the BiMEP area are ongoing to finalize the connection of dynamic and static cable and pull-in to the DemoSATH’s turret which will enable the energy export to the onshore electrical grid. DemoSATH is expected to generate the equivalent electricity needs of 2,000 Spanish households a year."The completion of this floating installation marks a major step forward in the project's mission to harness wind power and generate sustainable electricity," Saitech Offshore Technologies, RWE, and KEPCO, partners in the project, said in a statement
Carnegie Wins European Wave Energy Deal
Plan (SET Plan) has set targets for ocean energy technologies to reduce its levelised cost of energy (LCOE) over the next fifteen years to at least 20 c€/kWh (2025), 15 c€/kWh (2030) and 10 c€/kWh (2035). By 2050 ocean energy will be able to provide 10% of Europe’s current electricity needs and 400,000 jobs, Carnegie said.CETO Wave Energy Ireland will deliver Phase 1 of the PCP with the support of a team including its consortium partner SAITEC Offshore Technologies and subcontractors Yavin Four Consultants, DNV UK Ltd, IHCantabria, and Julia F. Chozas Consulting Engineer.Carnegie&rsquo
Acteon Team to Manage Installation on Calvados Offshore Wind Farm
450-MW offshore wind farm under construction near Caen, France, and is being developed by Éolien Maritime France (a consortium including EDF Renewables, EIH S.à.r.l, a subsidiary of Enbridge Inc., CPP Investments) and wpd. The wind farm will generate enough power to meet the domestic electricity needs of about 630,000 consumers and will have an operational life of about 25 years.The project scope for Acteon includes creating 64 open-hole sockets for casing installation; providing a bespoke drilling system to suit the socket specifications; and providing a drilling leader tower to support
Equinor's $466M Floating Wind Farm Plan Approved
an original plan of $10-11 billion after oil prices fell sharply because the COVID-19 pandemic led to a huge drop in demand and the OPEC+ group of producers failed in March to agree on new supply cuts.The 88-megawatt capacity project, called Hywind Tampen, would be able to meet about 35% of the electricity needs of the five platforms and would reduce CO2 emissions by about 200,000 tonnes per year when it starts operations in 2022, it added.The Norwegian government has agreed to provide 2.3 billion crowns in financial support, in addition to 566 million crowns from the industry's NOx fund, set up
France Plans 1 GW Offshore Wind Farm
mix," Ecology Minister Elisabeth Borne, who is also in charge of the energy portfolio, said in the statement.The ministry said it plans to boost the share of renewables in the French energy mix to around 40% by 2030. Nuclear power from its 58 reactors currently covers around 75% of French electricity needs.Although France has one of Europe's biggest coastlines with good wind speeds for viable wind farm projects, it is lagging its European peers in developing offshore wind projects.The government announced in June that it will double its target for developing offshore wind projects to 1 GW
Vattenfall Taps Seaway 7 for HKZ Installs
.The HKZ 1 & 2 wind farm is being developed by Vattenfall as the first subsidy-free wind farm in the Netherlands and is located approximately 30 km from the coast in the North Sea. Once fully operational, HKZ 1 & 2 will be capable of supplying 760 MW which will be enough to meet the electricity needs of approximately 1 million - 1.5 million households.In addition, Seaway 7 has been chosen as one of Vattenfall’s partners for the ongoing tender for the HKZ 3 & 4 offshore wind farm. This would add 76 monopiles and associated array cables to the program of work, if this development
Optimizing the Tides
energy, and as sea levels rise, it will become even more relevant as the effect of climate change becomes a reality. In the U.K. alone, the government estimates that wave and tidal combined has the potential to deliver 30 – 50GW equating to around 20 percent of the country’s current electricity needs. As investment and innovation begin to surge across the sector, Dutch-based tidal energy leader Tocardo joins with Nortek to help optimize the operational performance of its turbines. Sicco Kamminga, Director of Nortek’s Netherlands division, explains how ADCPs are contributing
Statoil’s NY Offshore Wind Project Named 'Empire Wind'
site, secured by Statoil in a federal auction in December 2016, has the potential to generate up to 1GW of offshore wind power for New York City and Long Island, according to Statoil, making it a key part of New York State’s plan to deploy renewable energy sources to meet the state’s electricity needs. New York’s Clean Energy Standard mandates an increase in the share of renewables in its energy mix to 50 percent by 2030. As part of that effort, Governor Andrew Cuomo recently called for the development of up to 2.4 gigawatts of offshore wind power by 2030. Statoil
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