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• Wood Thilsted Wins Work on 2 GW Caledonia Offshore Wind Project

  

  19 August 2024

  Contracts & Tenders, Supply Chain

  Caledonia Offshore Windfarm has selected the engineering consultancy Wood Thilsted to develop the structural concept design for the 2 GW project’s turbine foundations. The Caledonia offshore wind farm is being developed in the Moray Firth by Ocean Winds and is scheduled to be operational by 2030. Wood Thilsted will use the ground and metocean data […]

• Ocean Winds Closes Moray East Minority Stake Deal

  

  10 May 2024

  Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

  EDP Renováveis, S.A. has revealed that Ocean Winds, its joint venture with Engie, has completed the sale of a 16.6 per cent stake in the 950 MW Moray East offshore wind farm to funds managed by Equitix Infrastructure Investment Management (Equitix). With this transaction, Moray East implies an estimated EV/MW multiple of GBP 3.7 million […]

• Ocean Winds Opens Moray West O&M Base in Scotland

  

  10 September 2024

  Operations & Maintenance

  Ocean Winds has opened its new operations & maintenance (O&M) base in Buckie, Scotland, that will service the Moray West offshore wind farm once it becomes fully operational in 2025. The First Minister of Scotland, John Swinney, visited the facility on 9 September to mark the opening of the Ocean Winds’ O&M base with associated […]

• Ocean Winds Sets Date for Geophysical Survey at Its ScotWind Site

  

  19 August 2022

  Contracts & Tenders, R&D, Wind Farm Update

  Geophysical site investigations over Ocean Winds’ proposed Caledonia offshore wind farm site are scheduled to begin next month. UK marine survey specialist Gardline Limited has been contracted to carry out the geophysical survey with its research vessel Ocean Endeavour, deploying fixed and towed sensors. The operations will be conducted on a 24-hour basis, beginning on […]

• Geotechnical Surveys Kick Off at 2 GW Wind Farm Site Offshore Scotland

  

  27 July 2023

  Business development, Research & Development, Wind Farm Update

  Ocean Winds, a joint venture between EDP Renewables and Engie, has started geotechnical surveys at the Caledonia offshore wind farm site in Scotland. Sediment from deep borehole samples from across the Moray Firth site should provide geotechnical data to allow further planning of the project’s engineering design and installation phases. “Ocean Winds has built a […]

• Ocean Winds Hands In Scoping Report for 2 GW Caledonia Offshore Wind Farm

  

  4 October 2022

  Authorities, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

  Ocean Winds, a 50-50 joint venture between EDP Renewables and ENGIE, has submitted the scoping report to Marine Scotland for its Caledonia offshore wind farm. The report outlines the technologies under consideration for developing the 2 GW offshore wind project across a 429-square-kilometre site in the Moray Firth for which Ocean Winds won the development […]

• Ocean Winds Confirms Plan to Use ScotWind Site to Full Capacity

  

  5 July 2022

  Wind Farm Update

  Ocean Winds (OW), a 50-50 joint venture between EDP Renewables and ENGIE, has confirmed its intent to maximise the developable area of the project site for which it won the development rights in the ScotWind auction. Across the 429-square-kilometre site, Ocean Winds plans to build out its Caledonia offshore wind farm to an installed generation […]

• Survey Activities Ramping Up on Caledonia Offshore Wind Farm Site

  

  16 May 2023

  Wind Farm Update

  Survey activities are ramping up at Ocean Winds’ Caledonia offshore wind farm site with a pair of floating LiDAR devices soon to be deployed in the Scottish waters. The wind farm’s developer, Ocean Winds, said it is laying the groundwork for its comprehensive Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), a key element in the consenting process, following […]

• Ocean Winds Sells Minority Stake in Moray East to Equitix

  

  2 October 2023

  Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

  Ocean Winds, a 50-50 joint venture by EDP Renewables and ENGIE, has sold 16.6 per cent of its majority stake in the Moray East offshore wind farm to Equitix. According to Ocean Winds, the sale will support the company’s investments in its additional 5 GW of offshore wind projects in Scotland. Following the transaction, Ocean […]

• Metocean, Wind Measurement Campaigns Starting at Two More ScotWind Sites

  

  9 December 2022

  Wind Farm Update

  This month, a floating LiDAR and metocean instrumentation will be deployed at the Muir Mhòr floating wind farm site and a metocean system will also be installed at the offshore site of the Caledonia bottom-fixed wind project, both in Scottish waters. At the Muir Mhòr site (initially named Mara Mhòr), developed by Fred. Olsen Seawind […]

• PMSS America Appoints Julien Bouget as Lead Engineer

  18 May 2011

  Business & Finance

    PMSS, a global consulting firm working exclusively in the renewable energy sector today announced that US wind industry professional Julien Bouget, has been named as Lead Engineer, Project Assurance for its North America business unit – PMSS America, Inc. (“PMSSA”). This follows last month’s announcement of the company’s appointment of Sebastian Chivers as its […]

• Green Party of Ontario Calls for Offshore Wind

  

  3 June 2014

  Authorities

  Mike Schreiner, leader of the Green Party of Ontario, called  on the status quo parties to clear the way for far-offshore wind power generation from Ontario’s great lakes. “The ban on offshore wind is just another example of the Liberals playing favourites to get votes in close ridings,” said Schreiner. “We need to develop renewable […]

• Ireland: Arklow Marine Services Successfully Launches Wind Farm Service Vessel

  

  26 June 2012

  On the longest day of the year Arklow Marine Services successfully launched its second 20 metre wind farm service vessel into the River Avoca at Arklow.  The vessel looking splendid in her Alicat colours has again been delivered ahead of the scheduled delivery date. Local people crammed the quaysides, both north and south to witness […]

• Monte Carlo Method Used to Evaluate Offshore Wind Feed-In Tariff in Greece

  

  11 October 2016

  A paper on the evaluation of the feed-in tariff scheme for offshore wind farms in Greece using a Monte Carlo approach has been published in Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics.  The paper investigates the profitability range of offshore wind energy investments in Greece, taking into consideration the uncertainties faced, which include technical, political, economic and regulatory risks. […]

• Moray East Reaches Full Output

  

  7 April 2022

  Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

  The Moray East wind farm offshore Scotland has, following completion of works, achieved its full contracted output of 900 MW to the UK National Transmission Grid, Moray Offshore Windfarm (East) Limited said. The wind farm has been able to produce electricity while construction was underway. 1,415,000 MWhrs was supplied from June 2021 to March 2022 […]

• First Balkan Wind Power Expo to Be Held in Croatia

  

  29 March 2013

  Green World Conferences have announced that the Balkan Wind Power Expo 2013 conference and exhibition will take place in Zagreb, Croatia on 16-17 May 2013. The conference topics will cover both onshore and offshore wind. Located in the networking area, the exhibition will hold 25 exhibition stands where leading wind energy companies will present their […]

• GRAHAM to Upgrade Port of Dundee

  

  14 December 2020

  Contracts & Tenders, Ports & Logistics

  Construction specialist GRAHAM has secured a contract to construct a new wharf and make land upgrades in the Port of Dundee to service the offshore renewable energy and oil & gas sectors. The work consists of the construction of a new wharf and the preparation and upgrade of over 15ha of land. The port’s existing […]