Global | 2022-03-09
Engineers are building bridges with recycled wind turbine blades
Last October, the Re-Wind Network made headlines for recycling wind turbine blades into bike shelters in Denmark. The organization was praised for finding a sustainable way of dealing with the discarded composite materials as they are not particularly easy to process as waste. This week, The Verge reported on yet another use of turbine blades by the same organization, this time to construct a ...
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France | 2022-03-08
Construction Works Resume on French Offshore Wind Farm
Construction works on the 496 MW Saint-Brieuc offshore wind farm are now resuming, the developer Ailes Marines informed on 7 March, saying the installation vessel Aeolus will be working at the site without interruption in 2022 and 2023. According to the vessel’s AIS data, Van Oord’s jack-up was at the Saint-Brieuc offshore wind farm site today, 7 ...
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2022-02-15
Hollandse Kust Zuid Beta Topside On the Move
The topside for the Hollandse Kust Zuid Beta offshore substation has been loaded onto a vessel at Drydocks World Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. The topside is expected to start its journey to the Dutch North Sea shortly, TenneT, the platform’s owner and operator, said. Mammoet was in charge of loading the topside onto ...
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2022-02-01
First Mediterranean Sea Wind Turbine Rises
February 1, 2022 Van Oord’s jack-up MPI Resolution has started installing wind turbines at the 30 MW Taranto wind farm offshore Italy, the first wind farm to be built in the Mediterranean Sea. In the photos provided by Renexia SpA, the developer of the wind farm, MPI Resolution is seen installing the first of the ten MySE ...
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