Tech File: A Robotic Reach in Offshore Wind
and actuators. This enables full motion compensation and station keeping accuracy.The company has developed a full-scale prototype, first tested onshore in 2017, both on a six degree of freedom ship-motion simulator STL has and on land at STL’s research facility in Cowes on the Isle of Wight, using real vessel motion data as input. Andreas says a vessel-based trial of this system was planned before the end of 2022.STL’s Neptune during onshore trials. Photo courtesy STLHaving developed Neptune, STL decided to take the concept further. Why not a multi-axis articulated arm with
A Robotic Reach in Offshore Wind
, controllers, and actuators. This enables full motion compensation and station-keeping accuracy.The company has developed a full-scale prototype, first tested onshore in 2017, both on a six-degree of freedom ship-motion simulator STL has and on land at STL’s research facility in Cowes on the Isle of Wight, using real vessel motion data as input. Fechs says a vessel-based trial of this system was planned before the end of 2022.Having developed Neptune, STL decided to take the concept further. Why not a multi-axis articulated arm with more intelligence, so that USVs could do more, such as equipment
Tidal Power: Orbital Eyes Multi-device Deployment Across UK
company now has a credible course to delivering multi-device projects in locations across the UK as early as 2025," the company said.The Perpetuus Tidal Energy Centre (PTEC) will be one of the company’s application sites now that onshore consents for the project have been approved by the Isle of Wight Council Planning Committee.Orbital highlighted that it had been the first company to sign up for deployment at the site which is located to the south of the Isle of Wight, and with offshore consents, onshore consents, and grid connection agreement now completed, the project is now primed to secure
World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Opens
price for electricity of 150 pounds ($195) per megawatt hour (MWh) for 15 years.Since this was awarded, the cost of offshore wind has fallen dramatically to a low of 57.50 pounds per MWh in the last auction held in 2017.Blades for both sets of turbines were made at British factories, in Hull and the Isle of Wight, and Wright said the company was keen to use local facilities."Approximately 50 percent of the value of the project over its lifetime will have come from UK sources," he said.Walney Extension is a shared-ownership project between Orsted (50 percent) and two Danish pension funds - PFA
Unique Group Acquires Water Weights
build a strong market presence globally, with Water Weights further enhancing our ability to service clients with integrated solutions from our multisite divisions and nine regional offices.”Unique Group produces its flexible buoyancy and ballast products at a state-of-the-art facility on the Isle of Wight
Briggs Marine Awarded Framework with SSEN
(SSEN) for the replacement and maintenance of its subsea cable assets. The framework, which was awarded in August 2017 and will run to 2023, sees Briggs support more than 100 submarine electricity cables which provide power to islands and rural communities, from Shetland to the Isle of Wight. Briggs will provide survey, inspection, repair, removal and installation services for SSEN’s submarine electricity cable assets. The work will allow Briggs to further expand its subsea cables specialist workforce based in Burntisland, Fife, and complements a series of frameworks
UK Partners to Launch Autonomous Vessels Testing Service
said it has been awarded £457,000 (approximately $594,700) in grant funding from the Solent Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) to design and deliver the U.K.’s first dedicated autonomous systems testing service. Based around Portsmouth, Southampton and the South East of the Isle of Wight, BAE Systems will work with ASV Global (ASV), Blue Bear Systems Research (Blue Bear), Marine Electronic Systems (MES), SeeByte and the University of Southampton to provide the service’s infrastructure, with other organizations set to join later on. Together, the Solent LEP and
SME Secures Funding to Begin Array Build Out at EMEC
has arranged a £4.5 million (approximately $6.6 million) funding package to commence the deployment of an array of its PLAT-O tidal energy systems at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Orkney. SME has conducted extensive testing of its first PLAT-O prototype in the Solent, off the Isle of Wight, during 2014 and 2015. SME have now moved their operational base to Orkney and will be grid connecting their first system at EMEC over the coming months. This deployment will then be followed by a larger, 240kW, platform with SCHOTTEL HYDRO Instream Turbines (SIT 250), the production of which
SCHOTTEL HYDRO Sells 16 Turbines to SME
generation PLAT-O system will be large enough to host four turbines each. Four of these platforms will be deployed in 2016/ 2017 to complete the array. The installed power output of the array will be 1 MW and will be directly fed into the Scottish power grid. During the sea trials off the Isle of Wight, SIT and PLAT-O have proven to be a suitable match. Both, the turbines and the platform, are designed to be lightweight, robust, stable and simple, the manufacturer said. Together they provide an efficient integrated solution. PLAT-O reduces the costs of delivering tidal energy
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