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  • NKT Snags Several Contracts with Elia, 50Hertz, Nemo Link

    23 November 2020
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance

    NKT has been awarded five-year agreements by Elia, 50Hertz, and Nemo Link for service works on their offshore assets, following competitive tendering procedures. The agreements cover several export cables connecting offshore wind parks to the onshore grid, and the interconnector Nemo Link connecting Belgium and the UK. “NKT has entered into service agreements with Elia, […]

  • ABPmer Adds to Marine Renewables Atlas (UK)

    2 August 2011
    R&D

      ABP Marine Environmental Research Ltd (ABPmer) has released a further freely available tidal layer as part of a strategy to add value to the Atlas of UK Marine Renewable Resources. This new layer represents the percentage of time for which a current speed of 1m/s is exceeded over the course of a typical year. […]

  • Scottish Government Launches Smart Grid Strategy

    2 August 2012
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    The Scottish Government has launched a smart grid strategy to capitalise on its expertise in this technology and to support the country’s transition to become a low carbon economy. The strategy plans to create 12,000 new jobs in this sector by 2020 by encouraging smart grid adoption and developing Scotland as a leading international provider […]

  • Mojo Maritime to Build Low Motion Floating Platform for LiDAR

    27 February 2014
    R&D, Technology

    Mojo Maritime Ltd, the Falmouth-based marine renewable energy experts, has secured funding to develop, build and test their low motion floating platform for offshore LiDAR measurements at sea. Concept development and tank testing of the platform performed during 2013 has resulted in a solid design, capable of withstanding the most challenging offshore conditions. The platform […]

  • Renewable Energy Deployment Possible Even with Delays in Transmission Grid Expansion (UK)

    28 August 2013

    A timely transmission grid expansion is important for the future electricity supply based on renewable energies. A recent study by Ecofys energy consultants shows that even if this expansion is delayed, the planned deployment of renewables can still take place within the next 15 years. In this case, renewable energy installations would have to be […]

  • Scottish Greens: Offshore Renewables Could Help Create 200K Jobs

    25 August 2015
    Business & Finance, Jobs & Recruitment

    The Scottish Green MSPs published a major research paper today, outlining how Scotland could create 200,000 jobs over the next 20 years by pursuing a new economy built on renewable energy, green chemistry, home insulation and forestry.  The report, “Jobs in Scotland’s New Economy”, uses government and industry assessments to calculate that significantly more people […]

  • Shell Making Further Floating Offshore Wind Moves in South Korea

    15 March 2022
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders

    Shell Gas & Power Developments B.V. has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with power generation company Korea Southern Power Co., Ltd (KOSPO) to drive Shell’s floating offshore wind and renewable energy ambition in South Korea. Under the MoU, the two energy companies will explore collaboration opportunities to contribute to Korea’s energy transition. This could […]

  • UK: Carbon Trust Seeks Contractor to Undertake Offshore Wind Study

    3 September 2013
    R&D

    The Carbon Trust is seeking a contractor to undertake an offshore wind farm R&D study, called ‘The Maximising Lifetime Asset Integrity Study’. It is becoming more apparent within the Offshore Wind industry that several operating offshore wind farms are experiencing a higher level of structural issues than originally anticipated. This is resulting in not only […]

  • UK: Final Decision on Siemens´ Wind Turbine Factory by December

    16 July 2012

    Final decision by Siemens on its proposed new wind turbine factory in Hull is expected by the end of the year, reports the Hull Daily Mail. Planning consent for the ambitious £210 million redevelopment of Alexandra Dock where the factory will be based was granted in May. Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman is scheduled to sign […]

  • Wind Turbine Installation on Dogger Bank A to Resume in May, Voltaire Undergoing Scheduled Maintenance in Netherlands

    27 March 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Vessels, Wind Farm Update, Wind Turbines

    The jack-up vessel Voltaire has installed twelve wind turbines at the Dogger Bank A offshore wind farm in the UK so far and is currently in Vlissingen, the Netherlands, where it will undergo scheduled maintenance and return to the UK project in May. This is according to a Notice of Operations from the project issued […]

  • First Steel in Water at New York’s First Offshore Wind Farm

    23 June 2023
    Wind Farm Update

    The first monopile foundation has been installed at the South Fork Wind site offshore New York, the state’s first offshore wind farm. The foundation will support the project’s offshore substation, which will also be installed in the coming days. Boskalis’s offshore installation vessel Bokalift 2 is transporting and installing the foundations, including the one for […]

  • UK: Ofgem Announces Preferred Bidder for High Voltage Link at London Array

    18 September 2012

    Ofgem E-Serve has today appointed Blue Transmission as the preferred bidder to own and operate the high voltage link for the London Array (Phase 1) wind farm. This is the largest offshore transmission project to have reached this stage; the estimated value of the assets is £428 million. The London Array (Phase 1) windfarm, located […]

  • First Floating OSS Expected by 2030, But There Are Still Some Challenges, Semco Maritime Says

    10 July 2023
    Business development, Environment, Grid Connection, Infrastructure, Innovation, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, R&D, Technology

    Semco Maritime is expecting the first floating offshore substation to happen by 2030, however, there are still some challenges to overcome before this becomes a reality, according to Jacob Øbo Sørensen, Senior Vice President for Renewables at the Danish company. Semco Maritime, together with ISC Consulting Engineers, Aalborg University, Energy Cluster Denmark, and Inocean, secured […]

  • U.S. Senator Menendez: New OW Project Adds Jobs, Makes NJ National Wind Energy Leader

    12 August 2014
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Last week, U.S. Senator Robert Menendez visited Steel Pier in Atlantic City, where it was officially announced that Fishermen’s Energy will receive up to $47 million in federal grants over the next four years from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Wind Program for its Atlantic City Wind Farm offshore wind energy demonstration pilot project. Senator Menendez discussed the […]

  • STX France Launches Marine Renewables Facilities

    27 June 2014
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    With the active support of the Pays de la Loire Regional Council, Carène (Federation of local councils of Saint-Nazaire area) and Caisse des Dépôts (public group serving general interest and economic development), STX France secured the financing required to launch the 1st batch of production units due to enter in service in 2015. Considering the […]

  • ENGIE and EDPR Hear the Call of Ocean Winds

    21 July 2020
    Business & Finance

    ENGIE and EDP Renováveis have announced the creation of Ocean Winds (OW), a joint venture equally controlled by both companies in the floating and fixed offshore wind energy sector. Headquartered in Madrid, Spain, the new company will act as the exclusive investment vehicle in offshore wind for both parent companies and is expected to become […]

  • Installed Capacity of Energy Storage Systems for Solar, Wind Power Integration to Total 21.8 GW by 2023 (USA)

    30 June 2013
    R&D

    More than 1,300 gigawatts (GW) of wind and solar power generation capacity are expected to come online in the next 10 years, creating an unprecedented amount of instability on the grid—particularly in key markets within North America, Western Europe, and Asia Pacific.  As grid operators adapt to increasing levels of variable generation on their systems, […]

  • US Governors Urge Trump to Adopt Long-Term Offshore Wind Policy

    15 February 2017
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    A bi-partisan group of twenty US state governors has urged president Donald Trump to adopt a comprehensive offshore wind development legislation with a particular focus on a long-term extension of a thirty percent investment tax credit (ITC).  In a letter to president Trump, the Governors’ Wind & Solar Energy Coalition cited the Department of Energy’s 2015 Wind Vision […]

  • Measuring Wind Turbine Reliability With GL Garrad Hassan at EWEA 2011 (Belgium)

    9 March 2011
    Training & Education

    Over the last three years, the EU funded Reliawind Project has been conducting research to improve the reliability of wind turbines. In his presentation at EWEA 2011 in Brussels, Michael Wilkinson, GL Garrad Hassan, gives insights to the results of the Reliawind Project. The presentation will be held on Wednesday, 16.03.2010, from 9:00 – 10:30 […]

  • Octopus Energy Forays Into German Offshore Wind Market with Butendiek Acquisition

    13 November 2023
    Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Octopus Energy’s generation arm has made its first offshore wind investment in Germany with the acquisition of a 5 per cent stake in the 288 MW Butendiek offshore wind farm from Ewz, the Zurich Municipal Electric Utility. Located 32 kilometres west of Sylt Island in the North Sea, the Butendiek offshore wind farm features 80 […]

  • Ocean Energy Europe: Innovation Fund Needs to Be Fit for Purpose

    15 July 2015

    The innovation fund provided for in a reformed Emissions Trading Scheme must take into account the specific finance needs of the emerging technologies for which it was created, Europe’s ocean energy industry stated today. The comments follow the publication of the European Commission’s proposal to amend the Emissions Trading Scheme Directive. “We welcome the creation […]

  • Spanish Haizea to Operate Maryland’s Offshore Wind Monopile and Tower Factory

    29 March 2023
    Business & Finance

    US Wind, the developer of the MarWin and Momentum Wind projects in Maryland, has partnered with the Spanish manufacturer of offshore wind monopiles and towers, Haizea Wind Group, to manage and operate Sparrows Point Steel, the state’s first permanent offshore wind factory. The new facility in Baltimore County will serve for the manufacture of steel […]

  • Philippines to Streamline Offshore Wind and Floating Solar Guidelines

    3 August 2023
    Business & Finance, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Transition

    Philippine Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has started working with the country’s Department of Energy (DOE) on updating the offshore wind and floating solar guidelines so they would become components of next year’s National Expenditure Program (NEP). According to the environment secretary Maria Antonia Yulo-Loyzaga, DENR is working “very closely” with the DOE […]

  • VBMS Floats New Export Cable Shore Landing Method (VIDEO)

    4 November 2016
    Grid Connection, R&D, Technology, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    VBMS has recently executed the first export cable shore landing for the 336MW Galloper offshore wind farm utilising its newly invented method for lowering the cable onto the seabed by using a remotely controlled progressive buoyancy release system which eliminates the need for divers, wet riggers or support vessels. The company said that the new […]

  • Perspectives from a graduate trainee

    21 August 2013

    Newcastle, Strathclyde and Southampton are Britain’s top three universities to study naval architecture and Maria Dragoumerli has gained both a bachelor and masters degree in this discipline from Newcastle University. At university she became interested in the emerging and growing renewables sector of offshore engineering. As well as being clean and green, the sector has […]

  • Bureau Veritas to Take Part in Glasgow Event

    6 June 2014

    Bureau Veritas is participating in Global Offshore Wind 2014 in Glasgow on 11 – 12 June 2014. Global testing, inspection and certification company Bureau Veritas will be welcoming the industry to its stand to discuss current and new projects. Bureau Veritas is making its mark in the industry; project certification, type certification, offshore HSE, turbine […]