Floating Wind: DemoSATH Floater Launched in Spain (VIDEO)
in a full-scale prototype that will be deployed offshore Bilbao and will be the first floating turbine connected to the Spanish grid."The project moves forward at a fast pace for its installation later this summer. During the next months, the submarine dynamic cable will be deployed at the installation site and the floater will be towed out to be connected to it, as well as to the mooring lines that were previously installed in late April," Saitec Offshore Technologies said.The load-out and launching operations were performed at Punta Sollana quay, in the Port of Bilbao (Spain), where the
Ocean Harvesting's Wave Energy Converter to Feature Buoy Made of High-strength Concrete
Harvesting said.Describing the process, Ocean Harvesting said: "Highly flowable concrete is poured into a mold with void fillers, forming the concrete shell and the internal honeycomb structure, one of the strongest structures in nature. Most of the raw materials will be sourced locally at the installation site, where the buoy is cast in a process common in civil engineering. The buoy will be towed or shipped to the installation site and linked to the InfinityWEC PTO system with a mooring rope, which enables quick and diverless attachment and detachment of the buoy from the PTO system during installation
Wind Energy: The Good News in Offshore
the view in European. The SEA 3250 LT joins the larger, wind-capable self-propelled NG-98000C-US and its NG-3750C feeder unit in solving “this (financial and installation-capacity) bottleneck”. The SEA 3250 can carry two of the largest turbines “while underway” to the installation site. Heavy lifts to heights of over 130 meters — new normal for turbines sizes now reaching 12 MW— are possible “in an area where technicians are performing assembly tasks at the same time”. Interestingly, this GustoMSC design can “serve as a Jones Act compliant
SEA-3250-LT: Innovation in Offshore Wind Installations
and own propulsion that increase construction costs, weight and construction time, have been omitted. The SEA-3250-LT utilizes an efficient, lightweight hull construction in order to maximize variable load capacity: it can carry one to two of the largest turbines while under way to the installation site. The relatively simple and straightforward design can be adopted by multiple U.S. shipyards without big risks, and can therefore be built Jones Act compliant at a competitive price. This non-propelled design meets the required technical capabilities for wind turbine installation in the U.S
World's First Low Velocity Tidal Energy Project
application for Minesto’s Holyhead Deep project west of Anglesey for which consent has been confirmed by Natural Resources Wales. The consent is for a 0.5 MW Deep Green device which will demonstrate and prove the technology ahead of plans for installing a 10 MW array at the site. The installation site is located in the southern corner of Holyhead Deep, 6.5 km off the coast of Anglesey and has been carefully selected to maintain separation from shipping lanes and to minimize the impact on other sea users. The first phase of the project will include a single Deep Green device unit, seabed
Float-over Installation at the Vladimir Filanovsky Field
The transportation of the topside section of a central processing platform (CPP) site at the Vladimir Filanovsky field, its installation site, began this week on June 25. This transport, surveyed by Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RS) launched at the Globalstroy-Engineering (GSE) assembly site in Ilyinka, Astrakhan region. The CPP topside section is part of the infrastructure at the Vladimir Filanovsky field, located in the Russian sector of the Caspian Sea on Severniy license zone territory. The installation site of the CPP section is 170 km south of Astrakhan and 20 km east of Maliy
GL RC Certifies Alstom Tidal Turbine Prototype
our Guideline for the Certification of Ocean Energy Converters,” said Andreas Schroeter, Managing Director GL Renewables Certification. “It included assessment of the prototype design which demonstrates the fulfillment of the requirements in relation to design safety for the prototype installation site.” In Bristol, U.K., Alstom received the Statement of Compliance for the C-Design-Assessment of the tidal turbine from Andreas Schroeter, GL RC. For Rob Stevenson, Alstom’s Vice-President for Ocean Energy, “the certification activity has been a great success, demonstrating
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