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JUNE/JULY 2013 | £5.25 INTRODUCTION Women JUNE/JULY 2013 | £5.25 INTRODUCTION WOMEN INWINDPlease feel free to contact us if there is THROUGHOUT OUR TIME IN THE any subject area which you think may be INDUSTRY WE HAVE MET SOME of interest to our readership and we will MEMORABLE PEOPLE AND IN THAT do the rest – there is never any charge for TIME WE HAVE FOUND THAT IN A genuine editorial. MALE DOMINATED INDUSTRY IT IS NOT EASY TO REACH THE TOP IF You will find our ‘Forthcoming Features’ on YOU ARE A WOMAN. our website in the magazine section. Use the quick link below. We feature some of those women who LEAD ARTICLE have worked hard to not only carve out You will find a feature on ‘Foundations’ a successful career for themselves but within this edition. We thought however also to guarantee a successful future that one of the articles sent in should be for the industry as a whole. given a more prominent position because of its importance to the industry. OTHER FEATURES The magazine continues to grow and it You will therefore find ‘Foundations – is now commonplace to see separate Concrete V Steel’ as our lead article on features on all sorts of areas within the pages 4 & 5. industry. These features emanate from our discussions with leading experts MAGAZINE AND WEBSITE during our visits to conferences and INTERACTIVE FEATURES Duncan McGilvray events, as well as our editorial team Just another reminder that we have added Editor | Wind Energy Network bringing up subject areas when looking additional information at the end of some at the industry as a whole. of the articles. These may be accessed by www.windenergynetwork.co.uk the pink and green links / QR codes. These have already become very popular as it links the magazine in a very interactive way – a great marketing tool for our decision making readership to find out about products and services following the reading of an interesting article. Click to view more info = Click to view video www.windenergynetwork.co.uk 01 WIND ENERGY NETWORK CONTENTS CONTENTS PAGE 4 Industry lead article – Concrete v Steel PAGE 60 Spotlight on the West of Scotland PAGE 6 Your Industry News section starts here PAGE 70 Company profile – Capital Safety PAGE 10 Your regular events calendar and what’s new PAGE72 Workboats feature PAGE 12 Women in Wind – the ladies who are leading PAGE 80 Lubricants & Filtration – regular advice from our the way experts in the field PAGE 22 Business Development section – regular advice from PAGE 86 Legal Eagles - regular law feature our team of experts PAGE 92 Distributed Wind PAGE 26 Research & Development – a new regular feature PAGE 96 Company profile – Spencer Coatings The cover image was supplied by PAGE 32 Company profile – Douglas Westwood Consultancy Falck Safety Services – Pippa is one PAGE 98 Offshore Accommodation – how things have the many women who work within the PAGE 34 Developments in Foundations Technology change wind energy industry. PAGE 48 Scour prevention PAGE 108 Lifting Our feature contains a number of interesting articles on women that have PAGE 54 Money Matters – the start of our regular finance PAGE 112 Renewable World carved out a successful career in and feature around the industry and work for all sorts of companies & organisations. REGULAR/ONE OFF FEATURES Amongst some 12 features within this edition (the highest total in our history) we focus on Finance, Workboats and Research & Development to name but 3. Duncan McGilvray Editor | Wind Energy Network WOMEN P19 P48 P107 GREEN ENERGY PUBLISHING LTD (NORTHERN) The Oaks, Oakwood Park in Business Centre, Bishop Thornton, Harrogate, North Yorkshire HG3 3JN GREEN ENERGY PUBLISHING LTD (SOUTHERN) WIND OrbisEnergy, Wilde Street, Lowestoft, Suffolk NR32 1XH TELEPHONE 01765 644224 WEB SITE www.windenergynetwork.co.uk EDITORIAL [email protected] SALES [email protected] Front cover image: courtesy of ??? Wind Energy Network magazine is happy to accept unsolicited contributions for consideration. Editorial opinions expressed in this magazine are not necessarily those of Green Energy Publishing Ltd and the company does not accept responsibility for advertising content. The publishers cannot accept any responsibility for omissions or errors. The contents of this magazine are fully protected by copyright and may not be reproduced without written permission. 02 www.windenergynetwork.co.uk www.windenergynetwork.co.uk 03 LEAD ARTICLE LEAD ARTICLE OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE SUSTAINABILITY WITHOUT SUBSIDY Major re-fits, upgrades and severe GBS technology is almost certainly crucial ConcreteversusSteel damage maintenance on the units can be for the long-term sustainability of wind facilitated onshore by re-floating the GBS farm development further offshore and in and bringing it back to port; replacing deep water. immediately with another WTG. Large wind farm developments could, in REDUCED LONG TERM COSTS AND the very near future, be commissioned RECYCLING quickly and economically far offshore. This system will result in the reduction They even raise the possibility of green of long-term maintenance cost and will energy without subsidy! ensure that over time the design life on all components could be maximised in full. David Bone Ocean Resource Concrete structures are also benign in www.oceanresource.co.uk sea environments and have a very long design life. However, if required they can Click to view more info To date the Government and GRAVITY BASE STRUCTURES (GBS) tugs, operating at a fraction of the cost be re-floated and returned to port cheaply offshore wind industry has Concrete GBSs are cheaper and easy to of complex and very expensive specialist in order that the WTG and GBS can be concentrated its energies on install, have better fatigue characteristics, installation vessels currently employed and economically recycled, leaving no legacy expensive steel piles and jackets. are easier and cheaper to maintain and being able to be deployed within hours. A impact on the seabed. It appears they are reluctant to use can be removed relatively easily thus true “Float and Sink” technology. a cheaper and superior system obviating legacy problems. offered by concrete Gravity Base Sub-stations can also be assembled and Structures (GBS). SELF-INSTALLING GBSS commissioned in-dock and delivered Self-installing GBS are easy to install in the same way. The only off-shore In order to meet carbon reduction and avoid the very heavy cost of commissioning would be running and targets no-one, either in Government or complex installation vessels with their connecting the cables between installed Industry, appears to have considered attendant high project risk. These facts units; such a scenario should be today’s the true through-life costs and long- are apparently not clearly understood reality. term impact of steel structures. by Government, who provide little real support for the development of this “PLUG AND PLAy” SCENARIO We are, therefore now in a situation potentially all-British technology. Wind farms containing hundreds of GBS- whereby any area shallow enough to based WTG and sub-station units could construct in steel has been substantially Understandably GBS is lobbied against be easily developed and made operational developed using pile-supported wind by steel pile and tower system suppliers within a minimum time-frame; offering a turbine generators, ignoring the fact and the owners of the expensive and true “plug and play” scenario in 60 metres that wind farms could be constructed highly profitable ship operators. However, of water and beyond. far more economically further offshore if the Wind Industry in general and the and away from view, fishing grounds developers in particular were to fully To give an idea of what could be achieved and shipping lanes. appraise GBS, these systems would very – imagine the allies trying to build Mulberry quickly become the industry norm. Harbour on D-Day using steel piles. The A MORE CONSIDERED APPROACH outcome would have been very different. It therefore seems timely for a MASS PRODUCTION Using GBS technology Mulberry went in more considered approach to be GBS could easily be made and overnight and was crucial to victory. adopted as future large offshore wind commissioned with their Wind Turbine developments will be about scale, low Generators (WTGs) fitted and ready for DEPLOYMENT unit cost and repeatability. The offshore deployment using mass production line The concrete GBS systems are stable wind supply chain will be required to techniques at several centres around the during tow even with large (10mW) deliver a large number of foundations UK. This system, incidentally, would create WTG’s. Deploying them in the North & in a very short timeframe, ensuring substantial employment within the supply Irish Seas would require very little or no safe and cost-effective transportation, chain and avoid importing steel structures sea-bed preparation using specialised installation and maintenance. from Europe. integral foundation pads; where scour protection is required, this too can be “FLOAT AND Sink” TECHNOLOGY fitted to the GBS in-dock on pre-installed It is certainly very thought-provoking frames which are deployed once the GBS to envisage WTGs being towed from is sited. ABOUT OCEAN RESOURCE an inshore construction site on their Ocean Resource is skilled in the design and development of Gravity Buoyant Structures (GBS) for Offshore self-floating foundation structures, fully- Platforms, Tower Structures and large (4000 tonnes) Oil Field Control Buoys. Ocean Resource-designed GBSs of up assembled, tested, 90% commissioned to 25,000 tonnes have been operational in the North and Irish Seas for more than twenty years. then installed using standard marine 04 www.windenergynetwork.co.uk www.windenergynetwork.co.uk 05 INDUSTRY NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS IT’S ALL ABOUT The Wallsend-based company previously THREE PRODUCT RANGES In addition, SMD’s first Q-Trencher 1400 won a Queen’s Award for innovation in Originally developed for subsea cable (QT 1400) has been developed for Fugro 2011 for its work-class remotely operated installation for the telecommunications Salt Subsea.
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