Sentences with phrase «offshore wind installations»

These potential advancements could greatly reduce the costs of offshore wind installation and maintenance.

cleared another legal hurdle in the last week of 2011 and claimed its place as the most likely first full - scale U.S. offshore wind installation.

From offshore wind installations doubling as seaweed farms to kelp being marketed as a substitute for bacon, TreeHugger has gotten on the seaweed train before.

Compare, in the UK we just lost a proposed # 4b 1.2 GW offshore wind installation because of political uncertainty and mixed signals.

In the Netherlands, ECN has deployed the standalone Windcube in its measurement network to provide bankable data to support the Dutch government's ambitious offshore wind installation targets.

That 2014 paper showed that northern gannets seem to give offshore wind installations a wide berth, while a number of gull species show no evidence of either avoiding or being attracted to those installations.

A sharp surge in new, larger offshore wind installations in Europe throughout 2017 dramatically shows the viability of a technology that has truly come of age.

Interestingly, unlike many traditional offshore wind installations, the minimum depth is much deeper — the WindCrete requiring 90 meters to allow for its partially - submerged design.

Cape Wind, which would be the first full scale U.S. offshore wind installation, continues to move ahead with plans.

More than 90 percent of offshore wind installations are in Europe.

The batteries can help stabilize the local grid during peak - use times, while providing backup for proposed solar and offshore wind installations that may deliver power intermittently.

The EU however still leads in cumulative capacity and its 129 GW onshore and offshore wind installations, allowed six countries — Denmark, Portugal, Ireland, Spain, Romania and Germany — to generate between 10 and 40 % of their electricity from wind.

Olsen Windcarrier's Brave Tern, an offshore wind installation vessel.

At the end of 2016, about 88 % of all offshore wind installations were located in waters off the coast of 10 European countries, while the remaining 12 % was located largely in China, followed by Japan, South Korea, and, finally, in the U.S.

Assuming that the OCSLA extends to offshore wind installations, the Jones Act applies only where merchandise is being transported.

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