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  • 22 July 2011

    Warsash Maritime Academy (WMA) a part of Southampton Solent University’s Faculty of Maritime fit Technology provides first class training, consultancy and research to the international shipping and offshore industries. Over the years, WMA has been successfully providing OPITO approved Basic Offshore Safety Induction fit Emergency Training (BOSIET), Further Offshore Emergency Training (FOET) and Helicopter Underwater […]

  • 7 June 2017
    Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    DONG Energy has announced plans to offer frequency response from its existing Burbo Bank offshore wind farm using a combination of wind power and battery.

  • 23 March 2023
    Ports & Logistics, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Van Oord has selected the Tyne Clean Energy Park at the Port of Tyne as the storage and marshalling base for the foundations of the 1.4 GW Sofia offshore wind farm. The site will be occupied from the third quarter of 2023, with the base operational from the first quarter of 2024, as the business […]

  • 24 February 2023
    Contracts & Tenders, Equipment, Grid Connection, Infrastructure

    Luna Innovations (Luna) has been awarded a contract to provide monitoring services for the largest offshore wind project in the United States, Dominion Energy’s Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project. Luna’s EN.SURE long-range power cable sensing system will be used to monitor the wind farms’ export cable system, which will transport electricity to shore. The […]

  • 4 February 2021
    Operations & Maintenance, Ports & Logistics, Wind Farm Update

    Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) Offshore Wind Ltd and Eyemouth Harbour Trust (EHT) have signed a 25-year lease for the operations and maintenance (O&M) base for the 450 MW offshore wind project. Construction of the three storey, 1,040 m2 main O&M building and its two storey, 538 m2 storage warehouse in Eyemouth will start in March. […]

  • 15 December 2016
    Wind Farm Update

    The European Investment Bank (EIB) will support the construction of the Norther wind farm off the Belgian coast with a loan of EUR 438 million, with half of the amount to be guaranteed under the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI).  The total cost of the project is estimated to be EUR 1.1 billion, of which […]

  • 29 March 2019
    Business & Finance

    France-based Akrocean has received stage 2 validation for its WINDSEA floating LiDAR (FLD) under the OWA Carbon Trust Roadmap. According to Akrocean, the validation was granted by DNV GL and marks commercial acceptance for the floating LiDAR. Offshore trials that began earlier in 2018 were performed in the English Channel and have been independently reviewed by DNV […]

  • 11 October 2021
    Environment, Wind Farm Update

    SSE Renewables plans to reduce the size of the area over which the 4.1 GW Berwick Bank offshore wind project in Scotland will be developed to protect local seabird populations. The developer said it will reduce the overall size of the site by around ten per cent compared to the area available for development. The […]

  • 19 September 2019
    Business & Finance

    Dominion Energy is proposing to develop a 2.6GW wind farm off the coast of Virginia by 2026, which represents the largest offshore wind development in the U.S. The news comes as Virginia’s Governor Ralph Northam signed an executive order which sets the goal of having up to 2.5GW of offshore wind developed in the state by 2026. […]

  • 21 December 2016
    Wind Farm Update

    Rentel NV has placed an order with Siemens for the 309MW Rentel wind project. The contract includes the supply, installation, commissioning and maintenance of 42 SWT-7.0-154 wind turbines and marks the first order of Siemens offshore wind turbines in Belgium. In April, Rentel NV and Siemens signed a contract for the supply and maintenance of 42 offshore wind […]

  • 20 May 2016
    Authorities, R&D, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) has issued a tender for metocean desk study for Hollandse Kust (noord) and Hollandse Kust (zuid) offshore wind farm zones. The purpose of the assignment will be to provide the metocean conditions to serve as input for the design, installation and maintenance of wind turbines, inter-array cables, substations and their support structures at […]

  • 17 December 2014
    Technology

    Gamesa and the Iberdrola Group have launched a wind sector-pioneering system which enables the remote management, using a single interface, of any make of wind turbine, anywhere in the world.  Leveraging both firms’ know-how and experience in the wind sector, this new system, called WindCORE® + WindOne®, enables operators to control and monitor this class […]

  • 28 November 2014
    Business & Finance, R&D, Wind Farm Update

    European Energy A/S, Danish developer and operator of wind and solar power farms, has announced the creation of two joint ventures, one with the Canadian renewable energy producer Boralex Inc. and one with the Dutch bank NIBC. The ventures concern the development and construction of two nearshore wind farms with a combined capacity of more […]

  • 6 September 2019
    Operations & Maintenance, R&D

    Six global energy companies have launched a joint initiative to tackle wind turbine blade erosion by sharing data on how various protection systems perform in different operating environments. EDF Energy, a project lead on the initiative, Duke Energy Renewables, ENGIE, E.ON, innogy, and Kruger Energy have signed a partnership agreement that will see them share […]

  • 28 June 2016
    Operations & Maintenance, R&D

    Using an offshore accommodation platform combined with fast in-field vessels will be key to maximising efficiencies for large offshore wind farms built far from shore, according to an O&M logistics study carried out by Shoreline for Fred. Olsen Ocean. An O&M simulation, conducted by using Shoreline’s MAINTSYS software tool, was performed in collaboration with a major developer and based […]

  • 22 February 2024
    Authorities, Planning & Permitting

    Germany’s Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) has verified that three offshore wind areas in the North Sea, with a combined capacity of 5.5 GW, are approved for auction later this year. The BSH issued the fourth WindSeeV regulation, which contains the preliminary area investigation results for constructing offshore wind farms in three areas in […]

  • 18 December 2012
    Authorities

    As part of the Obama Administration’s all-of-the-above strategy to expand domestic energy development, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced its finding that there is no competitive interest in an area offshore Maine where Statoil North America (Statoil NA) has requested a commercial wind lease. The decision clears the way under BOEM’s non-competitive leasing […]

  • 19 June 2018
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Some of the innovative elements introduced on the 28MW Nissum Bredning Vind offshore demonstrator site in Denmark have led to cost reductions of up to 30% compared to traditional elements, Siemens Gamesa said.

  • 23 October 2014
    Operations & Maintenance, Training & Education

    Maersk Training will be welcoming job seekers at the RenewableUK 2014 Annual Conference and Exhibition’s careers day in Manchester, providing advice and information to those looking to take their first steps into the rapidly growing renewables sector. Focus will be on searching for the next generation of offshore technicians and helping unemployed get into the offshore […]

  • 11 July 2024
    Authorities, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The UK Planning Inspectorate has accepted into the examination phase the Development Consent Order (DCO) application for the Dogger Bank South (DBS) Offshore Wind Farms developed by RWE and Masdar. The DBS East and DBS West offshore wind farms, which could provide electricity for up to three million typical UK homes, are located in shallow […]

  • 30 November 2022
    Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    At the Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference 2022, Kommer Damen, Chairman of Damen Shipyards Group, and Arjan van Stee of Van Stee Offshore have signed a contract for the delivery of an 80-metre Multibuster 8020 ultra-shallow draught, multi-purpose workboat. To be delivered next year, Van Stee’s Multibuster 8020 is the first of a new class […]

  • 16 May 2014
    Operations & Maintenance

    Located off the coast of North Norfolk in the UK, the 317MW Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm (SSOWF) provides enough energy to power almost 220,000 British homes.  It is jointly owned by Norwegian companies, Statoil and Statkraft.  During Spring 2014, Statkraft, with responsibility for Operation and Maintenance of the SSOWF site, has successfully recruited eight […]

  • 6 April 2022
    Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology

    Dutch offshore foundations manufacturer Sif has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Pict Offshore to integrate the Get Up Safe (GUS) system, as standard, into its Skybox TP-less monopile foundation. The GUS system is a heave compensated personnel lifting solution that is said to transform the way in which maintenance technicians access offshore wind […]

  • 23 January 2017
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    Scotland’s Minister for Business, Innovation and Energy, Paul Wheelhouse, has called on the UK government to ensure that renewable energy investment is a key priority in their forthcoming Industrial Strategy. Renewable energy resources have grown to become a major industrial sector in Scotland, with 14,000 people, among a total of 43,500 in low carbon sectors, […]

  • 7 March 2018
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Ørsted plans to finance the Greater Changhua offshore wind projects by capital contributions from the Ørsted Group combined with debt capital sourced from local Taiwanese financial institutions.

  • 29 March 2023
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    The subsea export cable for the South Fork wind farm offshore New York has now been installed, according to an update Eversource Energy posted on social media. The installation work, carried out by the Belgian company DEME using its dual-fuel cable laying vessel Living Stone, started in February with seabed preparation which included relocating boulders from […]