Author: Anela Dokso

Orange County Public Schools has signed an agreement with Secure Futures Solar of Staunton to install and operate solar panels at eight facilities across the school division. Together, solar arrays will generate a total capacity of 2.5 megawatts of power, providing nearly half of the total electricity for the facilities while generating enough clean energy to run the equivalent of 400 average homes and avoid more than 2,500 tons of carbon dioxide pollution per year. In addition to the planned solar panels, three school campuses have received roof restoration to make them ready to hold solar arrays. Restoration work allows the facilities to…

Minesto has completed the first offshore installation phase of the Faroe Islands tidal energy project, as the gravity-based foundation for the power plant has been installed at the site in Vestmannasund. In 2018, Minesto signed an agreement with SEV to install two DG100 units in Vestmannasund. The agreement also included a power purchase agreement through which SEV committed to purchase the electricity generated by the tidal energy converters. The novel gravity-based foundation, designed and fabricated by Leask Marine in Orkney, consists of a base frame and a number of doughnut-shaped ballast weights. Each component has been individually lowered to the seabed…

Cleve Hill Solar Park, a joint venture project between Hive Energy and Wirsol Energy, has been granted development consent from the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), Alok Sharma. The Secretary of State has also granted consent for the battery installation on the site. “We are proud to lead the way to deliver the UK’s largest solar park. Cleve Hill Solar Park offers a real solution to our urgent climate needs and showcases the potential for the UK to lead the green recovery. This is a project that will generate up to 350MW of clean renewable…

Lamprell has received Letter of Award (LoA) from Seaway 7, the renewables business unit of Subsea 7, for the provision of Wind Turbine Generator (WTG) substructures for the Seagreen offshore wind farm. The scope of work includes the procurement, fabrication and delivery of 30 WTGs substructures, including the jackets, transition pieces and suction caissons, to be executed on a lump-sum basis. This project award is subject to finalizing the contract, which is expected to be completed shortly. Fabrication work is expected to complete in H2 2021. Lamprell will deliver the jackets to Seaway 7 at the deep water quayside in…

Equinor is launching its ambitions for reducing emissions from ships and contribute to decarbonizing shipping, on the UN’s World Oceans Day. Equinor’s maritime climate ambitions are embedded in the company’s climate roadmap launched in February 2020. The climate roadmap aims to ensure a competitive and resilient business model fit for long-term value creation and in line with the Paris agreement. The maritime sector represents 6% of total greenhouse gas emissions in Norway and 2–3% of global emissions. Being both a producer and a supplier of fuel to the maritime sector, Equinor has extensive maritime activity around the world, including around…

POM West Flanders has chosen European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) to aid the development of the ‘Blue Accelerator’ test platform into an international hub for blue growth. Established in 2019, Blue Accelerator is a maritime innovation and development platform, located approximately 500 meters from the eastern breakwater of Ostend, Belgium. Operated by POM West Flanders, the platform is open to companies, knowledge institutions and research centres to demonstrate new products and technologies for the blue economy. The Blue Accelerator platform provides a means for technologies to be tested below, above or at sea level. German wave energy developer, NEMOS, is…

A €3.6 million European project to study the psychological and physiological wellbeing of crew being transferred to offshore wind farms in rough waters, has produced a sail/no sail decision-support tool for marine coordinators, as well as a new understanding of seasickness and how it develops. Unscheduled operations and maintenance operations on offshore wind installations account for almost a quarter of the lifetime cost of an offshore farm, but a large portion of that is time wasted in failed crew transfers or workers unable to carry out their duties as a direct result of adverse weather conditions. The two-year DemoWind2-funded ‘Improving the…

90+ Hydrogen Europe members have signed a letter in support of the EU Commission’s Clean Hydrogen Alliance. The Alliance will promote hydrogen as an enabler of the post-COVID economy and a zero-emission society, aiming to scale-up production and deployment of hydrogen by 2030. 93 CEOs of Hydrogen Europe’s members have sent a letter to executive first vice-president Timmermans, commissioner Simson and commissioner Breton to demonstrate their support to the Clean Hydrogen Alliance and commitment to delivering on the climate agenda. “It’s impressive to see the commitment of so many companies of different sizes and different parts of the value chain of the…

Vattenfall has taken final investment decision for the construction of Hollandse Kust Zuid offshore wind farm proceedings 1-4. With its installed capacity of 1,500 MW, the Hollandse Kust Zuid offshore wind farm will be the largest of its kind worldwide, when fully operational in 2023. It will have a renewable electricity output equivalent to the annual consumption of over two million Dutch households. Vattenfall was awarded permits for the construction of Hollandse Kust Zuid after winning two subsidy-free tender rounds in 2018 and 2019. The two projects have been combined into one wind farm to optimize the process. “The Hollandse…

American shipbuilding company Vigor Fab has selected ABB as the hybrid-electric propulsion and energy storage system provider for the newest additions to the Washington State Ferry fleet, setting the U.S. ferry system on course for zero-emission operations. The new ‘Olympic Class’ ferries, which will have the capacity to carry 144 cars and 1,500 passengers each. Upon delivery in 2024, the initial vessel of the series will be the first newbuild in Washington State Ferry’s fleet to feature hybrid-electric propulsion and a high capacity energy storage system. The new vessels will be able to fully operate on battery power and will…