Today the festive opening took place of the Fieldlab Zephyros indoor wind turbine in the KAAP at the knowledge yard in Vlissingen. The nacelle is part of a real ‘living lab’ where knowledge institutes and innovative companies develop, test and...
On Tuesday, the winners of the Offshore Wind Innovators Award 2021 were announced during an hybrid event. GBM Works won the jury award while Jungle AI won the public award. Three nominees, GBM Works, Jungle AI (Jungle) and SpectX, pitched...
Energy company Vattenfall has joined the GROW joint research program in offshore wind. Here a consortium of offshore wind industry and research partners initiate research and accelerate the innovations that are needed for the transition of the energy system. GROW...
Dutch engineering company Iv-Offshore & Energy and naval architecture and marine engineering company Nevesbu jointly developed a floating concept for an offshore substation that offers an economic solution for offshore wind farms that are built far offshore. At water depths...
Shell, TEPCO RP, RWE and Stiesdal have commissioned their floating wind project, TetraSpar Demonstrator off the coast of Norway. The project will now enter its test phase where data on the performance and characteristics of the TetraSpar floating foundation will...
Dutch tech scale-up Seaqualize successfully completed offshore trials for its inline Active Heave Compensator (iAHC), the ‘Delta600’. Together with testing partners Van Oord and nautical research institute MARIN, the offshore lifting tool was tested for fixed-to-floating, floating-to-fixed and floating-to-floating transfers...
On Thursday, 18 November, the Maritime Emerging Technologies Innovation Park (METIP) location was officially opened at Willemsoord, Den Helder. In this new innovation centre, companies, governments, start-ups and knowledge institutions work together on innovative applications in the maritime, marine and...
Offshore Wind Innovators, in close cooperation with TKI Wind op Zee, is launching the 5th Offshore Wind Innovation Challenge. The challenge for this edition comes from Dutch heavy lift and transportation specialist Mammoet who is challenging innovators to find a...
Energy company Pure Energie and Albatrozz have signed a cooperation agreement to test the patented Albatrozz technology on a practical scale. The technology should result in more energy yield at lower winds. For this purpose Pure Energie will temporarily convert...
On Thursday 24 June, the contenders for the 6th PortXL acceleration program were announced. Fifteen innovative entrepreneurs from all over the world have been selected. Among these are the Dutch companies Reefy and Seaqualize. The selected companies will take part...
