by Deborah McCombie | Oct 17, 2023 | Aids to Navigation, Corporate, Marking & Lighting
Jans-Uwe Reißig, our Regional Manager in Germany and one of the co-founders of the company, talks about the temporary lighting that is required during the construction phase of an offshore wind farm. What’s the first thing that happens when lighting an offshore...
by Deborah McCombie | Sep 19, 2023 | Aids to Navigation, Corporate, Marking & Lighting
Fog signals are an essential feature on an offshore wind farm In times of low visibility, fog signals are an essential feature on an offshore wind farm, alerting mariners that they are close to danger and that an obstruction is in the area. They are an important...
by Deborah McCombie | Jul 11, 2023 | Aids to Navigation, Corporate, Marking & Lighting
Wind Farm Nordsee Ost has a new control system Nordsee Ost offshore wind farm lies approximately 30 kilometers north of the island of Helgoland off the coast of Germany. It has 48 wind turbines with a total capacity of 295 MW, generating clean electricity to supply...
by Deborah McCombie | Jun 26, 2023 | Aids to Navigation, Corporate, Marking & Lighting
How do you know how to locate a particular offshore wind turbine? Does it have an address? Well, sort of. Each turbine has specific coordinates, but they can be long and complicated. Therefore, in order to simplify communication, each turbine in an offshore wind...
by Deborah McCombie | May 5, 2023 | Aids to Navigation, Corporate, Marking & Lighting
Making offshore wind farms visible on digital maps Modern vessels use digital maps to help navigate the sea. In order for a vessel or an offshore structure, such as a wind farm, to show up on these maps, a signal needs to be transmitted by an AIS (Automatic...
by Deborah McCombie | Feb 13, 2023 | Aids to Navigation, Corporate, Marking & Lighting
ADLS (Aviation Detection Lighting System), known as BNK (Bedarfgesteuerte Nachtkennzeichnung) in Germany, enables the red aviation obstruction lights on the top of wind turbines to be switched off except when there are aircraft in the vicinity. Up till now, the...
