Sentences with phrase «offshore turbine operations»
And carcass surveys are expensive or not feasible at remote locations or other sites like agricultural fields, dense shrub habitats, or in offshore turbine operations.»
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The final turbine for the Nordsee One offshore wind farm has been installed and commercial operations are set to commence by the end of this year.
The first projects using floating wind turbines are also now entering into operation, based on concepts widely deployed in the offshore oil and gas sector; cost - competitive floating technologies would widen the economic resource base for offshore electricity generation considerably.
Until the Haliade - X enters operation, however, and assuming no competitors have an ace up their sleeves, MHI Vestas will hold on to the title of world's largest wind turbine in operation and will top it themselves when it begins installing its V164 - 9.5 MW wind turbines at Belgium's Northwester 2 offshore wind farm.
Block Island Wind Farm, America's first offshore wind farm, is a 30 - megawatt, 5 turbine project that began commercial operations off Rhode Island in 2016.
According to WindEurope, Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) has far and away the most offshore wind turbines in operation — 64 % of the total.
Financial institutions, Mandelstam continued, are not yet confident that offshore wind — including the resource, the turbine technology, the operations and maintenance process, the transmission infrastructure and the many other elements — can be relied on to produce consistently for 10 years.
AWEA Offshore Compliance Recommended Practices: for design, deployment and operation of offshore wind turbines in the United States Recommended practices on the approval process for offshore wind turbines.
These investments address a long - list of research challenges, including upgrading turbine technology for its operation at sea, developing and testing new turbine foundations that offer greater reliability and ease of installation, transmission issues, as well as technical shipping and maintenance challenges unique to offshore turbines.
With the weather conditions at sea, where strong winds constantly blow on the water's surface on most of the days of the year, and the technology rapidly becoming cheaper, hopes are springing that offshore wind turbines alone could cover well over 12 percent of the power consumption of the world's fourth largest economy by 2030 — meaning that the number of turbines would have to rise considerably from the roughly 1,200 in operation at the end of 2017.