In July I wrote about the TetraSpar Floating Wind Demonstrator project heading out to sea. I spotted it next to the Maersk Interceptor drilling rig at the port of Grenaa, Denmark, and now it is in place off of the coast of Norway producing power. Here is the press release … [continued]
Last August, the Norwegian Offshore Directorate released a resource analysis outlining three potential scenarios for future petroleum production on the Norwegian continental shelf. All scenarios indicate a significant reduction in production. According to Menon Economics, as the petroleum operations are dropping, the offshore wind industry has the potential to create … [continued]
For more than two years, the floating offshore wind turbine TetraSpar at METCentre off the coast of Norway has been monitored by a bird camera. No bird collisions have been recorded. The Norwegian company Spoor that is responsible for the bird monitoring. Since January 2022, they have mapped bird activity … [continued]
Just look at the size of this thing! New “TetraSpar” offshore floating wind demonstration project is good news for global steel industry.
The Danish company Stiesdal, which is behind the TetraSpar full-scale demonstration project of the world’s first industrialized offshore foundation manufacturing and deployment system for wind turbines that I covered a few weeks back, is now realizing the first commercial demonstration energy storage system based on heating up rocks in big … [continued]
The TetraSpar full-scale demonstration project is the world’s first industrialized offshore foundation manufacturing and deployment system for wind turbines. I saw it up close but didn’t have a clue of its significance at the time. A couple of weeks ago I wrote a piece on my visit to a drilling … [continued]
German energy company innogy is set to partner with British-Dutch oil and gas major Shell in bringing to fruition a new floating wind demonstration project designed by Stiesdal Offshore Technologies which boasts a modular layout that could offer competitive advantages to other floating wind designs.
