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  • UK: Very Long Offshore Wind Turbine Blade to Be Tested

    17 December 2013
    R&D, Technology

    Blade Dynamics has announced that the design phase of their ‘Very Long Blade Project’ for the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) has successfully concluded and that the prototyping phase will now begin. Blade Dynamics will now assemble an approximately 80-metre long blade prototype, and will begin static and fatigue tests before the end of 2014. Siemens […]

  • France Backs Four Offshore Renewables Projects

    17 November 2014
    Authorities, Business & Finance, R&D, Technology

    French Energy Minister Ségolène Royal and Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron have announced state support for four new projects in the marine renewables sector within the framework supplied by the French public sector investment programme “Investing for the Future”. Among the initiatives supported by the French Environment and Energy Management Agency, the Ademe, three of them […]

  • New Jersey BPU Starts Reviewing Nautilus Offshore Wind Project

    5 September 2018
    Authorities, Wind Farm Update

    The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities has officially accepted the application tendered by EDF Renewables and Fishermen’s Energy for the Nautilus Offshore Wind project.

  • Dogger Bank GE Haliade-X 13 MW Turbines to Feature ABB Converters

    10 June 2021
    Contracts & Tenders, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    ABB will deliver 95 units of medium voltage converters for wind turbines to GE Renewable Energy for the first phase of the Dogger Bank offshore wind project. This is ABB’s first major order under its Long-Term Supply Agreement (LTSA) with GE Renewable Energy and the largest order of its kind to date. The 95 PCS6000 […]

  • Germany: WINDFORCE 2012 Deemed Great Success

    9 July 2012

    6,000 visitors were welcomed to Germany’s first trade fair for the offshore wind industry and WAB’s eighth offshore conference from 26 to 29 June 2012 in Bremen “Our expectations were more than met”, said Jens Eckhoff, managing director of the Offshore Wind Messe- und Veranstaltungs GmbH, after four successful days of the WINDFORCE 2012 fair. […]

  • LR: UK Offshore Wind Leasing Round 4 to Be Highly Competitive

    13 December 2019
    Contracts & Tenders

    The Crown Estate’s Offshore Wind Leasing Round 4 will be highly competitive, with multiple developers vying to take a slice of a 7GW opportunity, according to Tristan Chapman, Senior Vice President of Renewables and Innovation from Lloyd’s Register. As previously reported, the Crown Estate opened the leasing Round 4 in October, offering seabed rights for […]

  • Rhode Island Issues 1 GW Offshore Wind Call

    17 October 2022
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Rhode Island Energy, the state’s primary utility company, has issued a request for proposal (RFP) for offshore wind, targeting an additional 600 MW to 1,000 MW of capacity. Offshore wind project proposals by bidders will be due to Rhode Island Energy on 1 February 2023. In July, Governor McKee signed into law clean energy legislation […]

  • Libra Group Buys Florida Shipyard to Build Jones Act Offshore Wind Vessels

    22 June 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Vessels

    Libra Group, through its subsidiary Americraft Marine, has acquired Florida-based St. Johns Ship Building, a full-service marine facility specialised in building and repairing Jones Act-compliant vessels, including those in the offshore wind sector. This acquisition, long in the works, leverages the proven capabilities of St. Johns Ship Building in constructing offshore wind servicing vessels, along […]

  • UK: Finance Secretary John Swinney Looks into Port of Ardersier Potential

    29 April 2013
    Authorities, Ports & Logistics

    Scottish Finance Secretary John Swinney visited the Port of Ardersier last week to find out how the large deep-water port in the Highlands of Scotland could become a major centre for the UK’s offshore wind industry. The fact-finding mission, hosted [on Monday April 22] by Port of Ardersier Chief Executive Stephen Gobbi, enabled Mr Swinney […]

  • 6 Alpha Associates Secures Contract with TenneT

    28 April 2014
    Grid Connection

    6 Alpha Associates, the strategic advisor for managing high risk offshore initiatives, has signed a long-term framework contract with TenneT, the European grid operator responsible for connecting offshore wind projects to the German electricity network. The agreement will see 6 Alpha Associates provide complex survey and risk management advice for unexploded ordnance (UXO) risk in […]

  • UK: DOW Receives Onshore Cable Route Planning Permission

    26 June 2012
    Grid Connection

    Dudgeon Offshore Wind Limited (DOW), a subsidiary of Warwick Energy Limited, has received the planning permissions needed to construct and operate the onshore cables for the proposed Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm (Dudgeon) project. The permission received from the Planning Inspectorate covers the northern 28km section of the buried cable system needed to allow the electricity […]

  • First Wind Turbines Being Installed at Neart na Gaoithe Offshore Wind Farm

    20 July 2023
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    The jack-up vessel Blue Tern has arrived at the offshore construction site of the Neart na Gaoithe offshore wind farm in Scotland as the installation of the project’s wind turbines has now begun. Earlier this month, the crane vessel Thialf completed the second phase of the installation of wind turbine jacket foundations. The work on […]

  • Maersk Training, Dong Energy Spur Recruitment into Wind Industry

    19 December 2014
    Training & Education

    Global training provider Maersk Training confidently expects hundreds of job seekers to attend an Open Day event, which is held in conjunction with DONG Energy, highlighting career opportunities in the wind energy and renewables sector. Taking place on Friday 9th January 2015, from 10.00am to 3.00pm, it follows on from similar open days held earlier […]

  • OGN Group to Invest GBP 50m into Former Tyneside Shipyard (UK)

    6 December 2011

    THE owner of a former Tyneside shipyard is preparing to invest £50m in converting part of the site into a facility to make wind turbine foundations – creating hundreds of jobs. OGN Group is already using a section of Hadrian Yard in Wallsend to build an oil production platform for American firm Apache, a deal […]

  • Altitec Developing Turbine Repair Reporting System, Backed by GBP 50K Grant

    10 May 2017
    Operations & Maintenance, Technology

    Altitec, a company specialising in wind turbine rotor blade access and repair, has won a GBP 50,000 grant to develop a new reporting system, designed to provide real-time data.

  • World Ocean Council Joins World Forum Offshore Wind

    17 May 2019
    Environment

    The World Ocean Council (WOC) has joined the recently launched World Forum Offshore Wind (WFO) as its newest member. WOC brings together industries such as shipping, oil and gas, fisheries, aquaculture, tourism, renewable energy (wind, wave, tidal), ports, dredging, cables, as well as the maritime legal, financial and insurance communities, and others to address ocean sustainable […]

  • PNE Sells Gode Wind II to Brancor Capital Partners (Germany)

    29 December 2011
    Business & Finance

    The wind farm project developer, PNE WIND AG is selling its shares in PNE Gode Wind II GmbH, in which the offshore wind farm project “Gode Wind II” is being developed, to HYSSING Vermögensverwaltungsgesellschaft mbH, which is held by the Danish Brancor Capital Partners APS. The agreed purchase price for all shares of PNE Gode […]

  • Lamprell to Manufacture 30 Seagreen 1 Jacket Foundations

    8 June 2020
    Contracts & Tenders

    Subsea 7’s renewables business unit Seaway 7 has chosen Lamprell for the delivery of 30 foundations for the Seagreen 1 offshore wind farm. Under the contract, yet to be finalised and to be executed on a lump-sum basis, the UAE-based company will manufacture jackets, transition pieces and suction caissons. Lamprell will deliver the jackets to […]

  • Great Yarmouth Becomes Home to Dedicated Business Park (UK)

    5 November 2013
    Authorities

    Great Yarmouth is set to become a home to dedicated business park for firms in the energy industry. The plan is led by Great Yarmouth Development Company, a new joint venture between Great Yarmouth Borough Council and Norfolk County Council, which aims to pool skills and resources to unlock and accelerate economic development opportunities. Great […]

  • Natural Power Can Tell You How Complex Your Development Site is for Free (UK)

    2 December 2010
    Technology

    Leading international renewable energy consultancy Natural Power are pleased to announce a new free web based service providing an estimation of wind flow complexity on potential wind farm sites. As potential development sites with simple, flat terrain become fewer and fewer, more and more projects are built in, or near, forests and complex terrain. It […]

  • Siemens Gamesa Signs Hornsea Two Bank Guarantee Line

    18 May 2020
    Business & Finance

    Siemens Gamesa has signed a bank guarantee line for up to EUR 600 million to cover the construction of components for the 1.4 GW Hornsea Two offshore wind farm. Located in the North Sea and owned by Danish utility company Ørsted, the farm will consist of 165 Siemens Gamesa wind turbines. BNP Paribas lead managed […]

  • AXYS Setting Standards with Dual LiDAR Deployment

    21 April 2015

    AXYS Technologies has achieved a world-first dual ZephIR 300 arrangement on the WindSentinel buoy that could become the new standard in floating LiDAR devices. The WindSentinel ‘floating laboratory’ delivers a customized full suite of meteorological and metocean data, in addition to the wind speed & direction data used for resource assessment, to better inform the development […]

  • Gamesa, AREVA Set Up Offshore Wind Joint Venture

    10 March 2015
    Business & Finance

    Gamesa and AREVA have signed the definitive agreements and have closed the transaction for the creation of Adwen, a joint venture dedicated to offshore wind, having 700 employees, 50-50 owned by its two parent companies and registered in Zamudio, Spain. The joint-venture is responsible for the design, manufacturing, installation, commissioning and services of offshore wind […]

  • University of Tokyo Looking to Adapt SeaTwirl Floating Wind Tech to Japanese Conditions

    28 September 2022
    R&D, Technology

    Swedish floating wind technology developer SeaTwirl and the University of Tokyo have entered into cooperation to explore how to adapt SeaTwirl’s floating wind technology to Japanese conditions. The research is being performed by a research group led by Associate Professor Shinichiro Hirabayashi at the Department of Ocean Technology, Policy and Environment, and focuses on the […]

  • Offshore ReWIND: Top Interviews in 2016

    2 January 2017
    Business & Finance, Environment, Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology, Training & Education, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Our Offshore ReWIND 2016 segment continues with a list of our top five interviews for the year behind us. The Big League Offering Lowest Offshore Wind Prices (Interview with Vattenfall) When you are talking with people working in real estate, there is a small chance you would not hear them saying: “Location, location, location!” at […]

  • Clemson University Opens USD 100 Mln Offshore Wind Testing Facility

    22 November 2013
    R&D, Technology, Training & Education

    Clemson University Restoration Institute officially opened their 82,000-square-foot Wind Turbine Drivetrain Testing Facility and Electrical Grid Simulator yesterday in North Charleston, South Carolina. “The Southeast has a world-class offshore wind resource, and now also has a world-class research center to develop the technology to capture this resource and turn it into clean, affordable energy for […]