Technical Issues

From the OIR – what’s involved in developing an offshore wind farm?  – note – “The planning and development phase typically takes up to six years – The preconstruction phase typically takes up to two years. The construction phase typically takes up to three years for a one-gigawatt (GW) wind farm with timing contingent on a range of factors such as weather, conditions associated with how activities are to be conducted under a licence and vessel availability … Sites with deeper water further from shore are typically associated with more adverse weather conditions and higher weather downtime.

Guideline from NOPTA : Offshore Electricity Infrastructure Licence Administration – Feasibility Licences

https://skepticalscience.com/floating-wind-turbines-work.html

https://www.rivieramm.com/opinion/opinion/solving-floating-winds-tow-back-challenge-74290

Pros and Cons of Floating Platforms in Marine Renewable Energy

Time to install a turbine

Review

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZ0yogw6E4I

https://www.renewableenergymagazine.com/wind/60-percent-of-wind-industry-professionals-believe-20230223

Certifications

https://www.bsigroup.com/LocalFiles/en-GB/standards/BSI-Offshore-renewable-energy-standardization-review-UK-EN.pdf

https://www.africanreview.com/energy-a-power/renewables/bureau-veritas-launches-tool-to-support-design-verification-of-floating-units

Lloyds Register is getting  a look see too- https://www.lr.org/en/clean-energy/offshore-renewables/?creative=656467344422&keyword=offshore%20wind%20projects&matchtype=p&network=g&device=c&utm_source=google&utm_campaign=offshore-services&utm_medium=cpc&utm_content=port-state-control&utm_term=offshore%20wind%20projects

Maintenance Issues

Kincardine wind turbine taken to Rotterdam for maintenance

Electrical – Is there a potential of electrical losses along the cables

https://www.youris.com/energy/energy-grid/offshore-wind-farms-too-much-energy-is-lost-in-cables.kl

https://ntnuopen.ntnu.no/ntnu-xmlui/bitstream/handle/11250/256639/348864_FULLTEXT01.pdf?sequence=1

Click to access IST_ESREL2019.pdf

Click to access ASTESJ_030217.pdf

https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/appene/v254y2019ics0306261919314060.html

Emergence of Large-Scale Hydrodynamic Structures Due to Atmospheric Offshore Wind Farm Wakes

https://www.wind-energy-the-facts.org/offshore-support-structures.html

Damage

https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/309395/reporting

https://www.controlglobal.com/network/power-supplies/article/21546150/controlling-undersea-energy-transportation

Reducing Downtime For Offshore Wind Turbines

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0951832022004008

Click to access 535792_Fulltext.pdf

Click to access wes-2020-56.pdf

Click to access 08704223.pdf

https://energycentral.com/o/hitachi-energy/four-cybersecurity-challenges-offshore-wind

Too much power

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-25/uk-wind-power-sets-record-on-gusty-weather#xj4y7vzkg

Technical – Constructions and Materials and constructions issues

https://theenergyst.com/offshore-wind-contract-dispute-settled/

Monitoring of Equipment

Inspection with Drones – ForceTechnology

Marshall Future

Science Direct

EIA

NCBI

Global Change – MIT

IOPScience

Accoustic Impacts

Atmospheric & Marine Wakes

University of Gothenburg

TrueOcean – monitoring

DNV – sesam

Energy Theory

Windsoleil

Frontiers in Marine Science

Effect of Different Foundations

Entura

Gillsc

Wellesley

Tourism

Phys org Turbulence

Helmholtz.de

Energygov.windshot

pubs.acs

Iberdrola

Brunel

Greenliving

TRVST

jdsupra

udel

vtechworks

stateofgreen

Cambridge

Siemens Gamesa

azoclean

Ship based radar impacts

energyvoice

3senergyrefit

Energyglobal – Maersk

Sheffield

tandfonline

asme

NPS

Vortex

DOSITS

ieeexplore

Steep waves

American Geosciences

https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/what-materials-are-used-make-wind-turbines

Science Direct – a comprehensive paper

Sinay

Eltel

Living on an offshore wind tower or ships servicing them  – fixed or floating wind towers? – Sleep quality – Toilets

Offshore Turbine Reliability and Maintenance – Strathclyde

Design complexity

Nuclear vs Offshore Wind – 1, 2,

Vestas – payback

Locating offshore – wind issues

Noise levels – onshore?

TWI – life of turbines

Cotes – Turbine failures

Is there enough wind? Issues

National Grid

Risks and Opportunities

Clean Power

Oil needs – oil leaks – windturbine magazine

Noise Levels – TOS

Wind’s Dirty Secret

Wake steering in offshore wind farms?

Cleaning windtower blades – onshore – what about offshore?

Fugro marine records €224m in 2023 earnings

Venterra expands marine acoustics services

RWE sets up offshore fleet service team

ORE Catapult adds partners to seabed mobility project

Huisman Awarded Subsea Crane Contract for Toyo Construction Vessel

Joint Collaboration Establishes Offshore Wind Farm Service Company

Venterra Geoscience Awarded Metocean Data Contract for Offshore Atlantic Wind Project

RockWave Awarded Subsurface Data Reprocessing Contract for Bałtyk 1 Offshore Wind 

ATLAS MARIDAN Orders Ultra-High Resolution Survey System from MIND Technology

First Geotechnical Surveys Completed for Scotland’s Seagreen 1A

First Geotechnical Surveys Finished for TotalEnergies and SSE Seagreen 1A

Wind Measurement Campaign Kicks Off at Corio’s Wind Sites Offshore Philippines

Australian Insurance Issues

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