Aberdeen headquartered energy consultancy, Xodus Group, is to plan and carry out an environmental impact assessment (EIA) for Statoil, for a potential pilot park for what will be the world's first full-scale floating wind turbine. Xodus made the announcement at the All Energy conference in ...
Aberdeen & Grampian Chamber of Commerce has worked closely with AREG since its formation. The recent progress in the developments of offshore wind projects by Equinor and Vattenfall are as a result of the work of the group over many years. The north-east is known as the oil and gas capita...
In ocean engineering, the term “environmental load conditions” is used in the design of offshore structures and other marine structures to include wind, waves, currents, and tides, depending on the environment under consideration. Operating environmental load conditions are the forces placed on the...
Offshore wind is poised for huge growth in the coming years, the UK government has set targets of 40 GW of offshore wind, including 1 GW of floating wind, to be installed in the UK by 2030. Many proposed wind development sites are in deeper waters, farther from shore and will therefore...
The prevention of shore erosion. Floating 𝑃𝑉PV modules hinder the strongest gusts of wind from eroding shorelines. There are also disadvantages to this type of facility: (i) Uncertainty about the materials used in floating 𝑃𝑉PV power plants. The degradation of the materials that compri...