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Lloyd’s Register to perform noise assessment for North Sea offshore wind farm
Lloyd’s Register’s consulting business will be working with Denmark’s transmission system operator, Energinet.dk, to measure underwater sound propagation for the Horns Rev 3 wind-farm substation development. The collaboration provides a critical approach on how to control noise transmission at sea, and will help safeguard marine life and ensure a sustainable project delivery. The 400-MW Horns Rev…
Factoring in six degrees of freedom for floating offshore wind turbines
This article, from Lloyd’s Register, is authored by Krishna Sivalingam, and reposted with permission. krishna.sivalingam@lr.org Wind energy has been dubbed one of the Next Resources – as in what comes next after fossil fuels. Like the drilling industry, wind turbines were initially built on dry land then moved to the shallow coastal waters where…
Lloyd’s Register launches offshore collision guidance to the marine and energy industries with its new Guidance Notes
Mitigating the risk of collision at sea first requires understanding of the causes. New industry guidance helps to make offshore operations safer for marine and energy operators. In addition, the nascent U.S. offshore wind industry should find the Notes of interest. The new Guidance Notes for Collision Analysis assist owners, operators, and designers of offshore…