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  • Taiwan’s First Round 2 Offshore Wind Project Enters Commercial Operation

    8 September 2023
    Wind Farm Update

    The Formosa 2 offshore wind farm has officially entered commercial operation, becoming the first Round 2 offshore wind project in Taiwan to achieve commercial operation date (COD). This project, owned by JERA, Green Investment Group (supported by its portfolio company Corio Generation) and Synera Renewable Energy (SRE), has entered the operations & maintenance (O&M) phase […]

  • German Developer Focuses on Completion of BARD Offshore 1

    13 June 2012

    The divestiture of Germany’s offshore pioneer BARD has yet to be completed as planned. The reasons for this include a persistently difficult market environment, technological challenges and the high level of complexity involved in the pioneering project BARD Offshore 1. The full divestiture of the BARD Group as a turn-key provider for offshore wind farms […]

  • Offshore Wind Forum to Talk Block Island

    6 December 2017
    Environment, R&D

    The Southern New England Offshore Wind Energy Science Forum is taking place on 11 and 12 December at the University of Rhode Island (URI) Graduate School of Oceanography (GSO) in Narragansett to discuss developments related to the Block Island offshore wind farm.

  • Jan De Nul Completes Luchterduinen Export Cable Reburial

    22 October 2021
    Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    Jan De Nul’s intertidal trencher Sunfish has reburied a section of the export cable at Eneco’s Luchterduinen offshore wind farm in the Netherlands. For this purpose, Jan De Nul modified its in-house designed and fabricated intertidal trencher Sunfish and reburied the nearshore section of the cable to a minimum depth of 2.5 meters below the […]

  • GWEC Advises Against Unilateral Feed-in-Tariff Changes in Taiwan

    11 December 2018
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders

    The Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) has called on the government of Taiwan to rethink proposed changes to the Feed-in-Tariff (FiT) for offshore wind projects.

  • Windstream’s Wolfe Island Shoals Offshore Wind Power Project Generates Significant Economic Benefits for Eastern Ontario (Canada)

    12 January 2011

    Windstream’s Wolfe Island Shoals Offshore Wind Power Project will create 1900 jobs during the current five-year development and construction period and 175 long-term jobs during the subsequent operational period, a large portion of which will be in eastern Ontario. The project will generate over $700 million in direct Ontario-based capital expenditures. The Wolfe Island Shoals […]

  • New York Launches Offshore Wind Master Plan

    30 January 2018
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Environment, R&D, Training & Education

    The State of New York has released the New York State Offshore Wind Master Plan, which will guide the development of 2.4GW of offshore wind by 2030.

  • Ireland Releases Offshore Wind Auction Rules, Expects to Secure 2.5 GW in Capacity

    10 November 2022
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    The Irish Government has approved terms and conditions for the country’s first auction to supply electricity from offshore wind under the Renewable Electricity Support Scheme (ORESS 1) which is expected to secure up to 2.5 GW of offshore wind capacity. The pre-qualification stage will launch next month while the qualification stage and the auction process […]

  • New Report Shows U.S. Holds Vast Offshore Wind Potential

    30 September 2015
    Authorities, R&D

    The U.S. Energy Department yesterday released a new report showing strong progress for the U.S. offshore wind market, including the start of construction of the nation’s first commercial-scale offshore wind farm, one of 21 projects totaling 15,650 megawatts (MW) in the planning and development pipeline. Of these 21 projects, 13 projects totaling nearly 6,000 MW, enough to […]

  • Ørsted and Co Team Up with Rosenberg Worley for Norwegian Floating Wind Projects

    25 March 2022
    Business & Finance

    Blåvinge, the partnership between Fred. Olsen Seawind, Hafslund Eco, and Ørsted which plans to bid in the upcoming offshore wind auction in Norway, is entering into an exclusive collaboration with Rosenberg Worley to develop floating offshore wind farms. Under the agreement, the Blåvinge partners and Rosenberg will jointly develop plans for how large-scale floating wind […]

  • Construction Heats Up at France’s First Offshore Wind Farm

    30 August 2021
    Operations & Maintenance, Ports & Logistics, Wind Farm Update

    21 of the 80 monopile foundations have been installed at the 480 MW Saint-Nazaire wind farm off the Guérande peninsula in France, EDF Renouvleables said. The turbine foundations are being installed by DEME Offshore’s jack-up vessel Innovation which installed the first unit at the site between 12 and 20 kilometres off the coast of the […]

  • GE Seals Dogger Bank C Deal

    18 May 2021
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Dogger Bank Wind Farm and GE Renewable Energy have finalised contracts for the supply of 87 Haliade-X 14 MW turbines and a five-year service and warranty agreement for Dogger Bank C, the third and final phase of what will become the world’s largest offshore wind farm. GE Renewable Energy secured a preferred turbine supplier agreement […]

  • Bladt Secures Its Largest TP Order Ever with US Offshore Wind Project

    8 November 2021
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Bladt Industries will supply 176 transition pieces (TPs) to the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project in the US which is, according to the Danish offshore wind foundation manufacturer, its largest TP contract ever. Bladt Industries signed a contract with Dominion Energy following a competitive procurement process the project’s developer held to reach agreements on […]

  • Construction Starts on Mammoth Offshore Wind Monopile Factory in UK

    8 July 2022
    Business & Finance, Industry

    Construction works on the new offshore wind foundation factory in the UK, which will produce XXL monopiles, started on 7 July. The new facility, located at Redcar’s Teesworks, is being built by SeAH, a subsidiary of South Korea’s pipe manufacturer SeAH Steel Holdings, and will produce between 100 and 150 monopiles per year. The monopiles […]

  • Three UK Companies Bag Galloper O&M Base Deal

    28 July 2017

    Three companies have been chosen as the preferred bidders for the Galloper Operations & Maintenance (O&M) base in deals totalling over GBP 7 million, innogy announced today (28 July).

  • German Offshore Wind Farm Operators Retrofitting Turbines Ahead of New Law on Aviation Obstruction Lighting

    9 September 2022
    Industry

    Wind farm owners/operators in Germany are retrofitting wind turbines to equip them with a lighting system that will switch on only after an aircraft is detected in a wind farm’s proximity, as new law on light pollution and aeronautical obstruction lighting systems will go into effect next year. As reported in August, Nordergründe is the […]

  • BVI: Great Interest for “Submersible Hull Catamaran” Concept

    25 March 2013

    At the dawn of a new era in offshore support vessels, SHC Wavedancer™ provides a world-first with its new patents pending design making it the only vessel on the world capable of transforming from a high speed catamaran to a semi-submersible platform. This innovation has enormous global potential for use in the offshore energy markets, […]

  • Regen SW: West Coast With no Round 3 Offshore Wind Project

    1 August 2014

    The cancellation of the 4.2GW Celtic Array wind farm by the development partnership of Centrica and DONG, represents a “real blow” to the economy on the west coast of the UK, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, according to independent experts, Regen SW. The announcement comes just eight months after the cancellation of RWE’s […]

  • AWS Truepower Receives Grant from DOE for Enhanced National Offshore Wind Energy (USA)

    7 October 2011
    R&D

      AWS Truepower was recently awarded $900,000 from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to help establish an enhanced National Offshore Wind Energy data network. The project will help facilitate public-private collaboration, assess quality and relevance of existing data sets, and provide guidance on all United States and international standards related to the design and […]

  • DNV GL’s Project Advances: Oil & Gas Meets Offshore Wind

    22 October 2015
    R&D

    The concept of using wind power for offshore oil and gas applications is one step closer to realisation, DNV GL informed today. WIN WIN, a DNV GL-led joint industry project (JIP), is running with the following seven participants: ExxonMobil, ENI Norge, Nexen Petroleum UK Ltd, Statoil, VNG, PG Flow Solutions, and ORE Catapult. Initial DNV […]

  • ‘China Wind Market Quarterly Report Q4 2012′ Added to Research and Markets’ Offering

    4 April 2013
    R&D

    Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “China Wind Market Quarterly Report Q4 2012” report to their offering.    In 2012, China surpassed 50 GW of grid-connected wind capacity and is currently on track to add roughly another 18 GW, representing a 40 % growth rate. The country has quickly become the world […]

  • Lord Callanan on Streamlining UK Offshore Wind Permitting: There Is No One Silver Bullet to Solve the Problem

    5 October 2022
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Industry

    The UK is keen on speeding up the buildout of offshore wind farms in its territorial waters, a goal that was more firmly set in the new Growth Plan that contains a list of offshore wind projects to be accelerated. However, to do so, the country needs to take on the difficult task of tackling […]

  • Certex UK to Work on Scotland’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm

    20 September 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Certex UK has won a contract to provide statutory inspection and maintenance services of Balance of Plant (BoP) equipment at the 1,075 MW Seagreen offshore wind farm in Scotland. The framework agreement, won via tender, is for three years, plus a two-year extension. In this case, BoP includes detailed infrastructure design and supply of all […]

  • Offshore ReWIND: The Most Read News in 2019

    1 January 2020

    To remind how the offshore wind industry developed in 2019, the Offshore WIND editorial team compiled a list of the most read articles as chosen by our readers. Jan De Nul Orders Mega Jack-Up Jan De Nul Group has ordered the Voltaire, its third jack-up installation vessel, at COSCO Shipping Heavy Industry in China, in […]

  • RWE Recruits New Applicants for Its Wales Wind Farm Apprenticeship Scheme

    2 July 2013
    Training & Education

    RWE npower renewables (RWE NRL) is expanding its highly popular Wales wind farm apprenticeship programme with a second round of recruitment for new candidates. The Apprentice Scheme, first launched by RWE NRL in partnership with Grwp Llandrillo Menai, is the first of its kind in Wales and was fully supported at the official opening in […]

  • BVGA, UHI Launch Offshore Wind Economic Impact Assessment Tool

    12 January 2017
    Business & Finance, R&D

    BVG Associates (BVGA) and the Economic Intelligence Unit at the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) have developed a benchmark standard in measuring local and national value added from offshore wind developments. Offshore wind is a maturing industry that is becoming truly global, BVGA said. For continued growth and to build local and government […]