Sentences with phrase «building offshore wind»

Dominion employees have said candidly that right now, under current market conditions, the company has no intention of actually building offshore wind turbines.

Bloomberg New Energy Finance reports that «Across Europe, the price of building an offshore wind farm has fallen 46 percent in the last five years — 22 percent last year alone.»

Building an offshore wind power industry in Virginia would help combat climate change and provide our state with thousands of local clean energy jobs.

Adapting techniques and equipment from offshore oil and gas work for building offshore wind is being pioneered in Scotland.

«But there are none that I know of that have committed to building an offshore wind installation vessel for the U.S. market.»

«As the Secretary said,» Lanard observed about the extended approval timeline, «we'll never attract investors, we'll never attract manufacturers, we won't create an industry, and if we don't create an industry we're not going to be building offshore wind in the United States.»

But building offshore wind turbines is both unpopular and significantly more expensive.

DONG's 20 - year experience building offshore wind has shown that cost reductions come with scale, she told Utility Dive via email.

Agree largely with your second paragraph, however isn't the UK building offshore wind farms more now?

Shell is building an offshore wind farm in the North Sea; it's part of consortia installing solar farms in Oman and California; and it has bought one of Europe's biggest electric - car - charging firms and a major British electricity provider.

The Chamber of Shipping has criticised plans to build an offshore wind farm in the path of a ferry route to the Isle of Man.

Until now, the U.S. wind energy industry has watched European countries build offshore wind turbines by the thousands as efforts to build wind farms off the coast of the U.S. stalled.

California has not built any offshore wind facilities, although the development firm Trident Winds wants to put 100 floating wind turbines 15 miles off the coast of Morro Bay.

They may have a chance where it is difficult to build offshore wind (deep water ~ scotland) but so far the economics of large scale do not add up.

Development of high voltage direct current cables and transmission systems — Although initial loss of electricity of DC cables is higher than for AC, there is no incremental loss of electricity as the length of the cable increases, making it possible to build offshore wind farms in very windy areas and transmit the energy over vast distances to areas with poor wind regimes, and to combine wind generators from different areas to reduce the impact of low - wind days and the need to use backup hydrocarbons on those days

Then a new round of testing will be carried out in the southwestern tip of the Sea of Japan using a 60m platform with a pair of 200 kW wind lens units, and thereafter the aim is to build an offshore wind farm with giant 5000 kW «Wind Lens» turbines, located at ocean depths exceeding 100m.

Operators have offered to build offshore wind farms in the North Sea without relying on support payments, in Germany's first competitive auction for the technology.

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Meanwhile Shell is leveraging its experience building giant things in the ocean to develop offshore wind farms, widely seen as wind power's next big thing.

Norway's Statoil is investing in offshore wind farms, leveraging its expertise building offshore oil rigs, and investing in research into capturing and storing carbon dioxide.

In 2015, we made the final investment decision to build the world's first floating wind farm, the Hywind pilot park offshore Peterhead in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

Deepwater Wind, the Rhode Island company that built and operates the Block Island Wind Farm, a five - turbine installation that is the nation's first offshore wind farm, seeks to construct the 15 - turbine South Fork Wind Farm approximately 36 miles southeast of MontWind, the Rhode Island company that built and operates the Block Island Wind Farm, a five - turbine installation that is the nation's first offshore wind farm, seeks to construct the 15 - turbine South Fork Wind Farm approximately 36 miles southeast of MontWind Farm, a five - turbine installation that is the nation's first offshore wind farm, seeks to construct the 15 - turbine South Fork Wind Farm approximately 36 miles southeast of Montwind farm, seeks to construct the 15 - turbine South Fork Wind Farm approximately 36 miles southeast of MontWind Farm approximately 36 miles southeast of Montauk.

The East Hampton Town Trustees» harbor management committee is interested in the cost to Long Island ratepayers if a proposed offshore wind farm is built.

At the event, Cuomo made comparisons between his administration and that of President Trump, saying while Trump is focusing on offshore drilling, he's planning to build more offshore wind - generating sites.

At 3 p.m., People's Climate Movement NY holds a press event, calling on de Blasio to «make priority commitments to offshore wind, mandatory retrofitting of large buildings, moving all NYC owned buildings to 100 renewable energy and other specific action,» City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Martins and Curran each pledged to pursue offshore wind projects, to create charging stations at county buildings for electric vehicles and to protect open space and parkland.

Mr Alexander is expected to announce a new social house - building programme, as well as offshore wind farms and progress on nuclear power stations.»

Deepwater Wind has been in talks with the Long Island Power Authority to build what could become the country's largest offshore wind fWind has been in talks with the Long Island Power Authority to build what could become the country's largest offshore wind fwind farm.

The two companies are among a group of select major utilities that could afford to build the type of offshore wind farms Germany needs to meet its objectives.

So, if you are looking at the Midwest where there is a substantial amount of wind — all the way from the Dakotas down to Texas — or if you are looking at the solar availability in this country in the Southwest, in Arizona or Nevada, or even the offshore wind in the Atlantic, you have to build lines from those sources to the loads, and you have to have a much more robust system that can support that.

Hurricanes could destroy the offshore wind farms the US is planning to build in the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico.

The waves travel along the flume and crash onto whatever researchers have built at the other end — which could include a novel type of dike, an artificial sand dune or gravel beach, or a pylon used to hold up an offshore wind turbine.

That situation will not be sustainable if the countries add more renewable power — and the Danes propose building another 4.5 gigawatts» worth of offshore wind farms.

In addition to enabling drilling in ever - deeper waters worldwide, robot subs will also be instrumental in ramping up the installation of offshore turbines that generate electricity from the strong winds and tides found at sea, says Michel, one of the main organizers of the annual Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Center's 2010 International ROV Competition, which challenges students to complete underwater missions using ROVs they design and build.

The Block Island Wind Project is the first commercial offshore wind farm ever built in the U.S., and the start of its operation marks the the beginning of a brand new clean energy industry in the United StaWind Project is the first commercial offshore wind farm ever built in the U.S., and the start of its operation marks the the beginning of a brand new clean energy industry in the United Stawind farm ever built in the U.S., and the start of its operation marks the the beginning of a brand new clean energy industry in the United States.

New Jersey officials recently announced the state would help fund an initiative by Garden State Offshore Energy to build a 350 - megawatt wind farm 16 miles (26 kilometers) offshore.

These obstacles have delayed, and in some cases nixed, many projects — and so far, not a single offshore wind turbine is operating in the U.S. Organizers of Cape Wind, an offshore wind park to be built more than five miles (eight kilometers) from Cape Cod, Mass., have been battling public opposition and regulatory hurdles for more than seven yewind turbine is operating in the U.S. Organizers of Cape Wind, an offshore wind park to be built more than five miles (eight kilometers) from Cape Cod, Mass., have been battling public opposition and regulatory hurdles for more than seven yeWind, an offshore wind park to be built more than five miles (eight kilometers) from Cape Cod, Mass., have been battling public opposition and regulatory hurdles for more than seven yewind park to be built more than five miles (eight kilometers) from Cape Cod, Mass., have been battling public opposition and regulatory hurdles for more than seven years.

Like kids building sandcastles below the tideline on the beach, scientists will let the walls of water travel along the flume and crash onto whatever researchers have built at the other end — which could include a novel type of dike, an artificial sand dune or gravel beach, or a pylon used to hold up an offshore wind turbine.

Wind development areas were leased off the Delaware and Maryland shores last year, and the BOEM issued the nation's first offshore wind research lease in March to Virginia's Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy, which plans to build a 12 megawatt wind farm off the shore of Virginia BeWind development areas were leased off the Delaware and Maryland shores last year, and the BOEM issued the nation's first offshore wind research lease in March to Virginia's Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy, which plans to build a 12 megawatt wind farm off the shore of Virginia Bewind research lease in March to Virginia's Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy, which plans to build a 12 megawatt wind farm off the shore of Virginia Bewind farm off the shore of Virginia Beach.

Business Green reports that DONG Energy is set to smash offshore wind cost - reduction goals with two wind farms that it's building off the Dutch coast.

Building on technology developed for the offshore industry, the Pelamis has a similar output to a modern wind turbine.

I want regulatory clearance to build wind farms offshore.

A large team of researchers from the University of Virginia, Sandia National Laboratories, University of Illinois, the University of Colorado, the Colorado School of Mines, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory are working together to build a low - cost 50 - MW wind turbine for use offshore.

One architecture studio has an idea about how to house all of those technicians while they're out inspecting offshore wind farms - by building apartments inside the nacelle of the turbines.

Photo: Flickr, CCHarvesting the WindThe French government of Nicolas Sarkozy has launched a $ 10 billion ($ 14.26 billion) tender to build about 1,200 wind turbines in 5 different offshore wind farms.

Last month, GE unveiled its plan to build the world's largest, most powerful offshore wind turbine, known as the Haliade - X.

Denmark's government abandoned plans to build five offshore wind power farms Friday amid fears the electricity produced there would become too expensive for Danish consumers.

The floating offshore wind sector is building considerable momentum on the back of a series of landmark developments in recent years, most notably with the commissioning of Hywind Scotland.

In May 2012, at the German Energy Agency's (DENA's) behest, the nation's four grid operators (TSOs)-- 50Hertz, Amprion, TenneT TSO, and TransnetBW — drew up a joint network development plan identifying necessary expansions to help transmit power from the North and Baltic Sea, where many offshore wind parks are being planned and built, to industrialized areas in southern and western Germany.

Massachusetts and New York have both committed to generating a portion of their power in coming years from offshore wind, and Deepwater Wind is slated to build a larger clone of the Rhode Island wind farm — which began supplying power to the mainland in December — to serve Long Islwind, and Deepwater Wind is slated to build a larger clone of the Rhode Island wind farm — which began supplying power to the mainland in December — to serve Long IslWind is slated to build a larger clone of the Rhode Island wind farm — which began supplying power to the mainland in December — to serve Long Islwind farm — which began supplying power to the mainland in December — to serve Long Island.

And, by using offshore platform technology proven in the oil and gas industry, we're able to build wind farms in deep ocean waters many miles offshore, where they are barely visible from shore.