Author: Anela Dokso

OHT ASA has, through its wholly owned subsidiary VIND Offshore Installation 1, signed the complete shipbuilding contract with China Merchants Industry Holdings, for the construction of the first of two turbine installation vessels. The vessels, currently referred to as VIND 1&2, will be of GustoMSC NG-14000XL-G design. They will be designed and built specifically to install the future-generations of offshore wind turbines and XL monopiles, and will operate with significant reductions in their environmental footprints. The company primarily announced the contract in July 2020. The vessels will be capable of efficiently installing in water depths up to 65 meters. The…

Carbon8 Systems, the UK company that invented and owns a process that combines industrial waste residues with captured CO2 emissions, has launched its first Energy from Waste (EfW) pilot project in the Netherlands. AVR’s EfW plant at Duiven, 120km east of Rotterdam, will host Carbon8 Systems’ pilot project. Carbon8 System’s accelerated carbonation process produces high-value, lightweight construction aggregates that are suitable for concrete applications. Carbon8 Systems’ patented carbon capture and utilization solution is known as the CO2ntainer – a modular, containerized solution – described as “carbon capture in a box”. For this pilot, a CO2ntainer will be installed at Duiven,…

Ørsted and Yara have joined forces in developing a pioneering project aiming at replacing fossil hydrogen with renewable hydrogen in the production of ammonia with the potential to abate more than 100,000 tonnes of CO2 per year, equivalent to taking 50,000 conventional cars off the road. If the required public co-funding is secured and the right regulatory framework is in place, the project could be operational in 2024/2025. Yara and Ørsted share the vision of creating a sustainable future through being first movers and have joined forces to develop a 100 MW wind powered electrolyser plant for renewable hydrogen production,…

DEME has launched its first ever Service Operation Vessel (SOV) at the CEMRE shipyard in Yalova, Turkey. Named ‘Groene Wind’, the Small Waterplane Area Twin Hull (SWATH) vessel will be deployed for wind farm maintenance activities. Groene Wind is due for delivery in 2021 and will be directly chartered to Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy for the maintenance of the Rentel and Mermaid & Seastar (known as SeaMade) offshore wind farms in Belgium. The name Groene Wind (green wind) reflects DEME’s ambitions to remain a leader in the offshore wind industry. DEME’s in-house newbuild team worked in close collaboration with Vuyk…

Ulstein has revealed a new hydrogen hybrid wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) design – the ULSTEIN J102. ULSTEIN J102 WTIV can operate 75% of the time in zero emission mode. Most new jack-up designs are featuring a battery hybrid system in addition to diesel gen sets, with a future option for hydrogen powered fuel cell system. The downside however of a high-power battery energy storage system (BESS) is its heavy weight and cost. That is not beneficial for a WTIV design, where weight savings are essential for minimizing Elevated Weight and optimizing the Variable Deck Load. “We have carefully analyzed…

Tekmar Energy has secured multiple contracts to supply cable protection systems for the Sheyang, Qidong, and Dalian Zhuanghe offshore wind farm projects in China. The offshore wind farms have a combined total output of over 300MW, and once constructed will power over 150,000 households in the Jiangsu and Liaoning Provinces. Tekmar Energy’s cable protection systems will be deployed to protect subsea array and export cables as they transition from the seabed into the foundations. “We are delighted to secure additional supply contracts in China. Tekmar Energy has now supplied our cable protection systems and hang-off assemblies to 15 offshore wind…

The international consortium led by Principle Power and composed of National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Aker Solutions and American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) and Technology From Ideas (TfI), has secured a contract by the US Government’s National Offshore Wind Research and Development Consortium “NOWRDC” for a project entitled “Demonstration of Shallow-Water Mooring Components for Floating Offshore Wind Turbines (ShallowFloat).” ShallowFloat aims to demonstrate the feasibility and benefits of soft mooring designs for floating offshore wind turbines by incorporating an innovative load reducing polymer spring in the mooring lines. The spring technology developed by TfI, has the potential to reduce peak…

The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the CARICOM Development Fund (CDF) to support a transition from fossil-fuel dependency to a more resilient and sustainable low carbon economic development model in Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS). The partnership will focus on reducing the region’s economic and social vulnerability to the adverse impacts of climate change, and liberating the region from a dependency on volatile and expensive fossil fuel imports. The Latin America and Caribbean region has the potential to source up to 85 per cent of its power from renewables by 2030. Doing…

Vestas has received an 22 MW order of 2 and 4 MW platform turbine components that qualify for the 60 percent PTC value from an undisclosed customer. The components will enable future wind energy projects that complete construction by the end of 2024. The PTC terms set in the PATH act, passed by Congress in 2015, made the wind industry the first energy industry to agree to permanent tax reform and have resulted billions of dollars in wind energy investment in the U.S., including expansions in domestic manufacturing and supply chain, construction, transportation, tax revenue to local communities, and the…

Repsol has started to generate wind power with the connection to the grid of the first wind turbines at Delta, one of its two major wind projects located in the northern Spanish region of Aragon. Delta is made up of eight wind farms, located in the Zaragoza and Teruel provinces, with a total of 89 wind turbines and 335 megawatts (MW) of installed power. The construction and commissioning of this facility, which is already supplying the grid with its first megawatt hours of 100% renewable energy, was completed in less than 12 months and has required an investment of €300…