Author: Anela Dokso

Ricardo and the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) have agreed to support the delivery of a new solar powered hydrogen production facility which is being developed as part of feasibility funding from the Rural Community Energy Fund. Wight Community Energy will test the viability of developing renewable energy solutions to support the local community and reduce environmental impact. The project will look at using existing solar capacity to produce hydrogen as an alternative to high-carbon fossil fuels. Ricardo’s experts will assess the scale of hydrogen production and use, as well as the commercial model for the facility. Project partners at…

Brockwell Energy has sold Dalquhandy Wind Farm to BayWa r.e., a global renewable energy developer, service provider and distributor. The Dalquhandy wind scheme is a 45MW project located next to Coalburn in South Lanarkshire that will deliver enough power for 34,000 homes. The sale follows an extensive re-design of the project to increase tip-heights to allow it to be deliverable subsidy free. The sale to BayWa r.e. reflects the development of a quality onshore wind project that will bring the abandoned former Dalquhandy coal mine site back into active use. “The successful development and sale of Dalquhandy validates the quality…

Eight UK organisations have signed new agreements to develop and provide renewable energy technologies, services and research in China. The eight innovators have all been supported by TORC, the joint venture research and incubation centre established in March 2019 by the UK’s Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult and China’s Tus Wind. Anakata Wind Power, the Oxford-based aerodynamics specialists, has created Tus-Aero, a 50:50 joint venture company with Tus-Wind, to develop and supply its performance improving aerodynamic blade add-ons. Anakata has been working with TORC for the past year and has installed its technology on a number of Chinese onshore wind farms,…

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…