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››› acquire the thermal power, renewable power and grid parts of Alstom’s business, as well as corporate and shared services, for a price representing an equity value of €12.35
Glasgow-based SgurrControl has started an offshore wind reliability project, supported by a £667,000 grant under the Department of Energy and Climate Change’s (DECC) Offshore Wind Components Technology Scheme. SgurrControl is leading the wind turbine intelligent control project to simulate, implement and demonstrate the capability of the Advanced Turbine Load Alleviation System (ATLAS) individual blade control technology to realise large reductions in blade loads on offshore wind turbines.
Government gives green light to East Anglia One
In June, the East Anglia One offshore windfarm, which is expected to support almost 2,900 jobs and bring over £520 million of investment into the UK’s economy, was given consent from the government to go ahead. UK energy and climate change
secretary Ed Davey said, “East Anglia and the rest of the UK have a lot to gain from this development. The project has
Statoil and Statkraft have decided to start building the Dudgeon offshore windfarm off the coast of Norfolk, UK. The project
billion and an enterprise value of €11.4 billion.
Under the terms of the updated
offer, following completion of the transaction, Alstom and GE will
SgurrControl kicks off DECC-funded project Spanning two years, the project will
provide a quantitative assessment of the benefits of using ATLAS and will inform the industry and manufacturers of the impact of loads, which can then be considered during wind turbine design. ATLAS will be implemented on a Blaaster Wind Technologies 3MW DL101 wind turbine in Valsneset, Norway, and the project will include two SgurrEnergy Galion Lidar devices to further analyse the response of the wind turbine to variations in wind shear, veer and gusts flowing into the turbine.
the potential to inject millions of pounds into the local and national economies and support thousands of green jobs.” East Anglia One currently plans to install up to 240 wind turbines, meaning the windfarm would be significantly larger than the current biggest windfarm in the world, the London Array, which is also in the UK. In July, the Rampion offshore windfarm off the coast of Sussex was also given consent from the government
Go ahead for Dudgeon windfarm
aims for full production in late 2017. When completed, Dudgeon will provide renewable energy for up to 410,000
Offshore wind to meet 10 per cent of UK requirements by 2020
The UK is on course to double its offshore wind energy generation capacity to 10GW or more by 2020, meaning that the ‘maturing’ technology would be able to supply around 10 per cent of the country’s electricity demand, according to the body responsible for managing the seabed. The figures emerge from two
reports published by The Crown Estate on the growth of offshore wind and potential cost-reduction measures that would help the sector to develop. It comes at the end of a record-breaking 2013 during which generation from offshore wind reached 11.5 TWh, or enough to
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power 2.7 million homes, according to the figures. “There have been a number of significant milestones in 2014 for offshore wind including a total of £750 million industry investment announced,” said Huub den Rooijen, The Crown Estate’s head of offshore wind. “With around 1,465 wind turbines in operation or under construction and nearly 4GW in operation, it is fair to say the industry is coming of age. The certainty afforded by the conclusion of Electricity Market Reform (EMR) and continued cost reduction and investment means that offshore wind is on course to provide
establish joint ventures in the grid and renewable power sectors. In the renewables sector, each company will hold a 50 per cent stake in Alstom’s offshore wind business.
As part of the project, Romax
Technology will provide drivetrain and simulation expertise to identify the most damaging events, which will then be used to target controller optimisation. Romax’s analysis techniques and cost modelling will close the loop on wind turbine system response modelling. The use of improved control strategies such as ATLAS is a cost- effective method of enhancing design optimisation, extending the life of wind turbines, both onshore and offshore, and addressing specific functional issues that can occur in operation.
to go ahead. The developer is E.ON Climate and Renewables UK. Onshore construction is expected to start in 2015, and the project, including the offshore installation, will take four years to complete. The developer estimates that generation will start in 2018/19. For the project to go ahead, developers will need to make a final investment decision and either apply for a CFD or seek to accredit under the Renewables Obligation.
households in the UK. The Dudgeon development will now move into a new phase, starting with construction of onshore cables and an onshore ›››
around 10 per cent of the UK’s electricity demand by 2020,” he said. As he noted, the UK Government intends to include offshore wind projects in its ‘less established’ group of technologies for the purposes of access to CFDs under its EMR programme. This will mean that these projects would not have to compete with more-established technologies such as solar and onshore wind for a share of government subsidy.
The UK is on course to double its offshore wind energy generation capacity to 10GW or more by 2020
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