MENCK to provide hydraulic piledriving hammer solution to Seaway 7 for Vattenfall’s Hollandse Kust Zuid I–IV (HKZ) offshore wind farm project in the Netherlands
12 January 2021 – MENCK, a specialist hydraulic piledriving solutions and project management company and part of marine and subsea solutions group Acteon, has signed a contract with Seaway 7, the renewables business unit of Subsea 7, to provide an MHU 3500S hydraulic hammer and spread for the installation...
AB InBev is on track to reach its 2025 goal of 100% renewable energy in 2021, according to Angie Slaughter, vice president of sustainability logistics and capabilities procurement at Anheuser-Busch InBev.
Slaughter joined FreightWaves Executive Publisher Kevin Hill in a fireside chat Tuesday during the North American Supply Chain Summit to talk about sustainability throughout the supply chain.
Slaughter said AB InBev has a wind farm in Oklahoma that produces 152 megawatts of power, representing...
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Anderson Trucking Service (ATS) has spent more than 20 years investing tens of millions of dollars in acquiring specialized equipment and hiring drivers to become the nation’s largest over-the-road transporter of gigantic wind turbine components.
Those investments have paid off, and even in the face of economic uncertainty from the coronavirus, the American wind energy industry has been at the back of this diversified Minnesota-based trucking company.
“COVID-19 has impacted some of our...
The coronavirus pandemic’s global spread earlier this year put the brakes on many U.S. industrial project cargoes, but truckloads of behemoth wind turbine components continue to roll across the nation’s highways.
“Our wind turbine component load count for this year is up 36%,” said Gene Lemke, vice president of projects for St. Cloud, Minnesota-based Anderson Trucking Service (ATS), in a telephone interview with American Shipper. “It’s been a huge bright spot during these difficult times.”
Family-...
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Deep Dig-it will play an important role in the construction of the new offshore wind farm Hollandse Kust Zuid. The electricity that the wind farm will generate first goes to a large offshore transformer station or the electronic socket at sea.
The Deep Dig-it must lay...
Specifically, wind farm maintenance and construction are new to the area of nautical activities; Yet, the port has already developed this activities, by setting up the Offshore Community Rotterdam together with RPPC, which now has 80 members.
Hans Timmers, chairman of the NWEA, the branch organisation...
https://safety4sea.com/port-of-rotterdam-to-participate-in-more-wind-farms/
Polish Port of Gdynia announced its expansion plans which will enable the port to accommodate the construction and operation of offshore wind farms in the Polish Baltic Sea.
Specifically, the port Authority expressed its interest to apply its pre-emptive right and purchase the War Shipyard, aiming to increase the functionality of port services, focusing mostly on the construction and operation of Polish offshore wind farms in the Baltic Sea.
The port of Gdynia Authority has already conducted an...
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UK’s Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) launched a competition for proposals that can provide future offshore wind farm mitigation for UK Air Defence surveillance.
Specifically, the GBP 2 million innovation competition has set its goals in reducing and removing the impact of wind farms on UK’s Air Defence systems to boost green energy growth and includes alternative technologies that will either fill or extinct the gaps in radar coverage.
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Under the Paris Climate Agreement, China pledged to rely on renewable resources for 20% of its energy needs by 2030. Currently, the country is on track to double that commitment, aiming to hit 40% by the next decade. Wind power is critical to achieving that goal. Over the past 20 years, China’s wind power capacity has exploded from 0.3 gigawatts to 161 gigawatts.
However, in recent years, that growth has slowed and the hopes for China’s wind-powered future have dampened. Namely, populous coastal...
https://safety4sea.com/offshore-wind-could-power-much-of-coastal-china-study-says/
To help the firm further develop its innovation, UNIIQ has awarded Tetrahedron an investment from its proof-of-concept fund.
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As offshore wind power is expected to grow, a strong demand for wind power is expected as well. To address this...
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