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  • 1 March 2023
    Jobs & Recruitment, Training & Education

    World’s leading offshore wind developer Ørsted has opened its largest-ever apprenticeship recruitment campaign for its UK East Coast offshore wind farms. The announcement is for the first phase of 2023 applications for roles located on the East Coast. The second stage will see positions available on the West Coast. By the end of 2023, 18 apprentices […]

  • 30 May 2022
    Business & Finance, R&D, Technology

    Spain’s Acciona Energía has acquired 24 per cent of the capital of Eolink, a French company specializing in the development of floating offshore wind foundations, becoming the main shareholder in the process. The operation, subject to certain conditions, follows a financing round launched by the French startup to boost its floating offshore wind technology and […]

  • 26 April 2022
    Grid Connection, Ports & Logistics, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Installation works are well underway at the 1.5 GW Hollandse Kust Zuid – the world’s first subsidy-free offshore wind farm – to ensure that electricity starts flowing to the Dutch grid in early May. As reported, the first of the wind farm’s 140 Siemens Gamesa 11.0-200 DD wind turbines was installed at the site some […]

  • 27 October 2011
    Technology

    Vestas will be supplying a V164-7.0 MW turbine, which is a dedicated offshore wind turbine designed specifically for the harsh conditions at sea. DONG Energy’s total investment in the establishment of the test site will amount to approx. 32 mio. Euros. The V164-7.0 MW turbine is scheduled for installation in 2013 at the demonstration site, […]

  • 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.

  • 18 May 2016
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    New York State senators Liz Krueger and Brad Hoylman released a letter signed by 20 state senators to Governor Andrew Cuomo and Audrey Zibelman, Chair of the New York State Public Service Commission, calling for the inclusion of an offshore wind tier in the forthcoming Clean Energy Standard. The Public Service Commission (PSC) recently published a […]

  • 10 March 2020
    Authorities

    The Virginia General Assembly has passed the HB 1526 Virginia Clean Economy Act which requires at least 5.2GW of offshore wind power to be developed by 2034. The bill passed the House of Delegates by a 51-45 vote, and the state Senate by a 22-17 vote. The legislation will now be sent to the desk […]

  • 6 January 2012

    The Crown Estate has today (6 January 2012) announced the appointment of Huub den Rooijen as its first Head of Offshore Wind Energy. Huub will take up the post in the spring of 2012. He has played a major role in some of the biggest offshore wind projects in Europe and advised many of the […]

  • 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 […]

  • 30 May 2023
    Business development, Collaboration, Outlook & Strategy, Research & Development

    A consortium of Australian and global companies comprising Mainstream Renewable Power (Mainstream), Reventus Power, AGL, and Direct Infrastructure has submitted a feasibility licence application for a 2.5 GW offshore wind development off the coast of Victoria, Australia. The proposed 2.5 GW project has the potential to generate economic benefits to Australia including more than AUD […]

  • 10 August 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Vessels

    GE Renewable Energy has taken delivery of its first of two crew transfer vessels (CTVs) dedicated to the operations and maintenance of the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm. The announcement was made by Louis Dreyfus Armateurs (LDA) and Tidal Transit which were selected by GE Renewable Energy in December 2020 to provide two CTVs for the […]

  • 18 July 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Ports & Logistics

    Danish Port of Esbjerg has ordered a second Liebherr LHM 800 crane capable of lifting next-generation offshore wind turbines. The Port of Esbjerg received the first LHM 800 crane in 2019, while the second one is expected to be delivered in 2023. The LHM 800 crane, which has a lifting capacity of 308 tonnes, is […]

  • 17 May 2021
    Wind Farm Update

    Ørsted has started construction of the 2 MW H2RES offshore wind-to-hydrogen project in Denmark, for which the company reached a final investment decision (FID) in January. With a groundbreaking ceremony held on 17 May and led by Dan Jørgensen, the Danish minister for Climate, Energy & Utilities, Ørsted marked the onsite start of construction of […]

  • 8 March 2013

    The European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) has elected Andrew Garrad as its new President. Garrad joined the wind energy industry in 1979 and was President and later Chairman of GL Garrad Hassan, the world’s largest independent renewable energy consultancy, with 1,000 employees in 27 countries devoted to renewable energy. Garrad built his first wind turbine […]

  • 31 July 2014
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    RenewableUK says Government statistics released today show that onshore and offshore wind energy is playing the central role in the country’s successful transition from fossil fuels to clean renewables. In its annual Digest of UK Energy Statistics, the Department of Energy and Climate Change says electricity generated from renewable sources increased by 30% in 2013 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 10 March 2021
    Vessels

    The two first electric Voith Schneider Propellers (eVSP) ever manufactured will be soon installed in a new commissioning service operation vessel (CSOV) being built by Gondan Shipbuilders for Østensjø Rederi. According to the shipyard, the eVSPs arrived last week at its main facilities in Castropol, Asturias, in Spain, and are ready to be installed prior […]

  • 20 February 2018
    Environment, R&D, Technology

    Scientists at APEM have developed a new technique for measuring the height of birds in flight expected to ease concerns about the potential dangers of wind turbines for birds and lead to improved outcomes for developers of offshore wind farms.

  • 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 […]

  • 19 June 2012

    Morgan Sindall has been chosen to deliver Scottish Enterprise’s new £10 million Industry Engagement building (IEB) in Glasgow’s International Technology and Renewable Energy Zone (ITREZ). The leading UK construction, infrastructure and design company won the contract to build the five storey, 53,819 sq ft office complex which is to become the headquarters for the new […]

  • 8 July 2015
    Business & Finance, R&D, Technology

    Floating Power Plant (FPP) has been awarded EUR 1.14 million for the 2 year project “Market maturation of Floating Power Plant’s Floating Wind- Wave- Energy Device – POSEIDON” under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 673976 (SME program). “This support will significantly speed up and increase the effort […]

  • 8 February 2021
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders

    RWE has been selected as the preferred bidder for two adjacent offshore wind sites with a total potential capacity of 3 GW in the UK Offshore Wind Leasing Round 4. The awarded sites are in the shallow central area of the North Sea known as Dogger Bank, 110 km from the North East coast of […]

  • 17 May 2017
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Siemens team onboard the wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) Pacific Orca has installed the first of the fifty-six 6MW Siemens turbines on the 336MW Galloper wind farm off Suffolk.

  • 7 June 2016

    Shell plans to establish a New Energies business as part of future opportunities that company wants to take advantage of, according to an update on Shell’s strategy provided by the company’s CEO, Ben van Beurden. Van Beurden defined three categories of Shell’s portfolio priorities: cash engines, growth priorities and future opportunities. In the period to 2020, the oil and gas giant […]

  • 17 October 2023
    Jobs & Recruitment, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy

    Norwegian ports investing in offshore wind can generate NOK 8.4 billion (about EUR 727 million) in annual value and employ approximately 6,400 people by 2030, according to a new report from Menon Economics. The study has identified 14 installation and assembly ports with plans to facilitate projects for offshore wind farms by 2030, indicating significant […]

  • 21 June 2022
    Industry, R&D

    Offshore Wind Consultants (OWC) has developed a market study that has identified 54 territories as potential floating offshore wind markets. “This study provides an insight into the where, when and how floating offshore wind can develop to become a global industry, and hence plays a critical role in delivering a global net-zero. The study pinpoints […]