Floating Windpower Partnership Formed
Japanese engineering giant Hitachi Zosen Corp and French marine renewables technology outfit Naval Energies will work together in the field of floating wind power.The French marine renewables specialist said in a press release that the two companies will design and build floating wind turbines with a capacity of several hundred megawatts off the Japanese coast using Naval Energies' semi-submersible floating solution, which is a concrete, steel or a hybrid combination fixed to the seabed by an anchoring system that controls its movements.The project between the two companies is based on a feasibility study to jointly design and build…
Change in GL Renewables Certification Management
During February 2011 Christian Nath hands over the management of GL Renewables Certification. AndreasSchroeter has been appointed as his successor as Senior Vice President GL Renewables Certification and Mike Woebbeking will be Vice President GL Renewables Certification and Head of the Certification Body. Christian Nath will continue to support the organization in a consultative capacity until the end of 2011. GL Renewables Certification, part of the GL Group, is one of the leading certification bodiesprimarily focussed on the certification of wind farms…