COMMUNICATION HUB FOR THE WIND ENERGY INDUSTRY ECOLOGY MITIGATION FOR BIRDS Spotlight on Blyth TRAINING - CONFINED SPACES MONEY MATTERS Bolting & Fastenings FEBRUARY/MARCH 2014 - ISSUE 21 | £7.50 INTRODUCTION LEAD ARTICLE a subsidiary company of LINKING TWO SEPARATE Offshore Wind EPC Fabrication RENEWABLE MAGAZINE AND WEBSITE INTEraction – QR CODES Yet another reminder that we have Delivering all your offshore wind fabrication needs changed our pink and green flashes ENERGY SECTORS indicating more information online. QR codes have been substituted in the printed • Wind Turbine Jacket Foundations Our parent company Green Energy BLYTH FEATURE version which means that you can scan Publishing have taken the bold step Our ‘Spotlight on…’ feature focuses on the code with your smart phone and it in introducing a new magazine for Blyth in the North East , one of the many will direct you to the featured company • AC/HVDC Transformer Substations the wave and tidal sector. I have regional areas which have evolved to serve or organisation micropage held within our been given the added responsibility the needs of the industry. website, so that you can learn much more • Substation Jacket Foundations for been editor of this publication in all sorts of formats. as well. The port houses some of the leading • Met Masts operators in the industry and also Narec These have already become very popular We launch the publication at the leading Research & Development as they link to the magazine in a very RenewableUK’s Wave & Tidal Event Centre. interactive way – a great marketing tool for held in Belfast later this month. our decision making readership to find out STOKE & STAFFORDSHIRE about products and services following the The title of the publication is Wave & We also turn our spotlight on Stoke & reading of an interesting article. Tidal Energy Network and its business Staffordshire featuring a surprising number model will be identical to that of Wind of companies and organisations who sit Energy Network – we believe that the well within the supply chain, given that industry deserves an industry specific they are relatively distant from offshore magazine and website which is solely activities. dedicated to that industry and not tagged on to some other renewable There are however perfectly suited publication as a sort of afterthought. companies with facilities ready-made to serve the wind energy industry both on As the wave & tidal industry has and offshore as you will find within this crossover with that of wind, I am feature. pleased to reflect this too in our lead industry article. FEATUREs – gET INVOLVED The magazine continues to grow and it The lead industry article has been is now commonplace to see separate written by Trident Energy’s CEO Steve features on all sorts of areas within the Duncan McGilvray Packard whose company work in industry. These features emanate from Editor | Wind Energy Network both sectors – we hope you find it of our discussions with leading experts in the interest. industry during our visits to conferences www.windenergynetwork.co.uk and events, as well as our editorial team bringing up subject areas when looking at the industry as a whole. Please feel free to contact us if there is any subject area which you think may be of interest to our readership and we will Scan/click this link to find out how to do the rest – there is never any charge for get involved in this magazine genuine editorial. You will find our ‘Forthcoming Features’ tab on our website in the magazine Engineering Procurement Construction section. T: 0191 295 8700 E: [email protected] W: www.ogn-group.com www.windenergynetwork.co.uk 01 WIND ENERGY NETWORK CONTENTS CONT Editor’s welcome E Fugro OCEANORNTS Planning feature 4 ? 6 Cover story ? Money Matters Research & Development ? Contents ? EEEGR SNS 2014 Conference ? Industry lead article – Linking preview separate renewable energy sectors ? Training – Confined Spaces ? Your Industry News section starts here ? International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) ? Ecology – Mitigation for Birds ? Bolting & Fastenings ? Business Development ? Planning Issues ? Spolight on Blyth ? BPP Cables on cable vibration ? Training – Skills Gap ? Lubricants ? Fred. Olsen Interview ? Problem Solved ? Legal Eagles ? Research & Development ? Tidal Transit at Sheringham Shoal ? Coatings and Corrosion ? Spotlight on Stoke & Staffordshire ECOLOGY MITIGATION FOR BIRDS GREEN ENERGY PUBLISHING LTD (NORTHERN) GREEN ENERGY PUBLISHING LTD (SOUTHERN) T 01765 644224 Ecology, a subject area dear to my REGULAR/ONE OFF FEATURES The Oaks, Oakwood Park Business Centre, OrbisEnergy, Wilde Street, W www.windenergynetwork.co.uk heart. Continuing our ecology theme Amongst the features within this edition we Bishop Thornton, Harrogate Lowestoft, Suffolk E [email protected] with some very interesting articles also focus on Blyth, Stoke & Staffordshire, North Yorkshire HG3 3BF NR32 1XH E [email protected] within this edition relating to mitigation Planning, Coatings and Corrosion and for birds. Money Matters to name but a few. TRAINING Duncan McGilvray Two separate features on training this Editor time – both for confined spaces and some Wave & Tidal Energy Network Wind Energy Network magazine is happy to accept unsolicited contributions for consideration. Editorial opinions expressed in this general training articles from providers far magazine are not necessarily those of Green Energy Publishing Ltd and the company does not accept responsibility for advertising and wide. 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 INDUSTRY ARTICLE INDUSTRY ARTICLE DIESEL GENERAtors – risks AND LINKING COSTS Currently, the most widely used source of Through extensive research and auxiliary power for offshore wind turbines development, in conjunction with partners TWO SEPARATE are diesel generators. Whilst these are including the University of Cambridge, a proven solution, the logistic costs of Trident Energy has successfully developed refuelling and maintaining diesel generators technology that can maximise the energy RENEWABLE ENERGY offshore are high - this opex cost can that can be harnessed from each wave. account for over 90% of the cost of The technology, successfully demonstrated NEW providing auxiliary power. at our testing facility in Lowestoft, Suffolk, SECTORS allows for the real time control of a linear APPROACHES With the running costs of operating generator. Our lead article in this edition is very diesels offshore reaching more than five relevant to our latest initiative – it TO PROVIDING times what it is onshore, the complexities This offers a reliable and highly controllable links two separate renewable energy of transportation and operations out at means of converting motion directly into sectors; wind and wave/tidal. OFFSHORE sea, diesel generators come with cost electricity. The ability to control a device and safety issues. With future offshore in real time is an important enabling Our now well established publication POWER wind farms being built even further out at technology for the commercialisation of will now have a sister publication - REDUCING sea, these issues will become even more wave energy, this has the potential to Wave & Tidal Energy Network which is prominent. be hugely beneficial to the offshore wind being launched at the RenewableUK RISK, industry as it can be used to provide new Wave & Tidal event in Belfast in late SOLUTION – adjoining wAVE- auxiliary power solutions. February 2014. REDUCING POWERED LINEAR GENERATOR The solution to reducing the risks and REDUCING RISKS AND COSTS We are pleased to feature Trident COST costs for offshore auxiliary power is to It reduces the risks and costs associated Energy, one of the industry leaders use the sea to provide the necessary with auxiliary power solutions solely in both wind and wave/tidal, as our Offshore wind turbines are helping energy. Whilst there are many wave dependent on diesel generators, by contributor in this edition – Steve the UK meet its energy capacity energy devices in development, most introducing a diverse, autonomous power Packard, CEO explains… needs and to meet its carbon targets. use hydraulics or gearing to convert wave supply and reducing the diesel refuelling However, without a secure and cost motion to electricity. These are inefficient challenge. effective source of auxiliary back due to their inability to maximise the power up power, the commercial viability extracted from every wave due to their slow Through our innovative research of offshore wind turbines could be responsiveness. programme we have been able to undermined. This is because one of develop a new solution for the challenges the basic needs of a wind turbine associated with the provision of auxiliary is the provision of auxiliary power, power to offshore wind turbines. Our real especially before it is connected to time control technology has the potential to the onshore electricity grid. Wind play an enabling role in the future success turbine warranties can be voided if of this vital industry and renewable energy the turbine is without power for more source. than a few days, radically altering the risk profile and hence insurance Steve Packard requirements of the wind farm. 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