R&D AND NEW TECHNOLOGY

Ørsted Supports Jet Suit Paramedic Trials

The pioneering project is training paramedics to use life-saving jet suits to reach people in remote places experiencing a medical emergency in a fraction of the time it would take by car, foot or even helicopter.

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Technology, Innovation & Green Growth for Offshore Renewables (TIGGOR)

The TIGGOR programme has been established to support the acceleration of businesses in the North East England region. The programme brings together the public and private sector including developers Equinor and EDF Renewables, who have been delivery partners since the programme’s inception.

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Waste Vegetable Oil Used to Further Reduce Emissions on East Anglia Wind Farm

Since this trial, SPR has continued its work to reduce emissions, with the use of HVO fuel in O&M trucks at the Quayside base.  To increase the focus on sustainability and understand how champion the delivery of suppliers’ sustainable, competitive solutions, the Offshore Sustainability Team has been created.

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Cognitive

During the programme Cognitive worked on a one-to-one basis with OWGP’s consultant partners to analyse each of the Offshore Wind markets it was planning to enter, and explored other opportunities in Offshore Wind to inform and develop a long-term product roadmap and business strategy.

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Long Term Collaboration Testing the Worlds Most Powerful Turbine

In late 2019, GE signed an agreement with Dogger Bank Wind Farm joint venture partners to supply all 277 units of the upgraded Haliade-X 13MW & 14MW turbines to the 3.6GW Dogger Bank Wind Farm, 130 km off the north-east coast of England, set to power around 5% of the UK’s electricity demand.