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  • The Netherlands: First Offshore Wind Farm Has Positive Impact on Marine Life

    31 October 2012
    R&D, Wind Farm Update

    A five-year scientific study has revealed the first offshore wind farm near Egmond aan Zee in the Netherlands has positively impacted life in and around the sea, and has had hardly any adverse effects. The wind farm was constructed in 2006 by NoordzeeWind – a joint venture between Shell and Nuon – and has been […]

  • Fishing Industry Alliance Sues US Interior Department Over Vineyard Wind 1

    7 February 2022
    Authorities, Wind Farm Update

    Responsible Offshore Development Alliance (RODA), a US coalition of fishing industry associations and fishing companies, has taken legal action against the Department of the Interior’s (DOI) decision to approve the 806 MW Vineyard Wind 1 offshore wind farm, which recently entered construction. RODA filed a lawsuit with the US district court for the District of […]

  • Two Celtic Sea Floating Wind Projects Could Be Delivered by 2028

    5 January 2022
    Wind Farm Update

    Falck Renewables and BlueFloat Energy have said that they are looking at early delivery of their two floating wind projects in the Celtic Sea, called Llywelyn and Petroc, which have grid connections secured and almost a year’s worth of bird surveys already completed. “As our joint venture has already undertaken considerable work including bird surveys, […]

  • Mainstream Raises EUR 60 Mln in New Corporate Debt Facility

    22 December 2014
    Business & Finance

    Mainstream Renewable Power has successfully closed a new €60 million corporate debt facility. The four year facility was arranged through BlueBay Ireland Corporate Credit, a vehicle established by one of Europe’s leading asset managers BlueBay Asset Management, with substantial investment from the National Pensions Reserve Fund of Ireland, and through Cantor Fitzgerald Ireland from Irish […]

  • US offshore wind opportunities in 2018

    12 April 2018

    By: Jason Deign, for New Energy Update The US offshore wind sector ended 2017 on a slightly ironic note. Plans for Cape Wind, which was supposed to have been the country’s first offshore wind farm, were finally shuttered after a long period of uncertainty.[1] But prospects for the rest of the market looked better than […]

  • Offshore Wind Power Production Revenues to Reach USD 104 Billion by 2017 (USA)

    11 October 2011

    Although the deployment challenges of developing offshore wind power generation facilities are significantly greater than on land, developers, manufacturers, governments, and investors are now turning their attention to offshore wind farms as a means of further expanding wind power capacity. The reasons for this interest are several: Some of the world’s best wind resources are […]

  • Floating Wind to Save the Day at Cornwall’s Wave Hub?

    29 March 2018
    Business & Finance, R&D, Technology

    Wave Hub is looking to facilitate floating wind technology testing at its site off Cornwall due to slow progress of the wave energy sector and delays from technology developers that signed up for testing their devices at the site. 

  • Floating Lessons at DeepCwind (USA)

    19 July 2011
    Business & Finance

      The DeepCwind Consortium reviewed dozens of applications and placed 12 students around Maine and Washington, D.C. for eight-week-long summer internships. Follow this series to hear from the mouths of interns what it’s like to work for companies that are launching the floating deepwater offshore wind industry.  Dustin Jalbert, Masters Candidate International Finance and Economics […]

  • UK: CWind Signs Three New Owner-Operators to Boat Share Scheme

    11 June 2012
    Business & Finance

    CWind has recently signed three new skippers to its boat share scheme and placed orders for three 19m MPCs with CTruk Boats. These vessels will be built this year and will all work with CWind on charters, going straight on to contract on the UK’s east coast. CWind already has four vessels running under the […]

  • Fred. Olsen 1848 Launches Modular Floating Foundation

    5 May 2022
    Industry, R&D, Technology

    Norway-based Fred. Olsen 1848 has launched a new floating offshore wind turbine foundation named BRUNEL after several years of development. According to Fred. Olsen 1848, the main challenge for floating offshore wind to become industrialized and respond to deployment at scale is the ability to manufacture and assemble floating foundations at a volume that is […]

  • Siemens Gamesa’s Flagship Prototype Offshore Wind Turbine Starts Taking Shape

    23 September 2021
    Technology

    Siemens Gamesa has started installing the SG 14-222 DD prototype offshore wind turbine at the test centre in Østerild, Denmark. The wind turbine’s tower has now been erected at the site, Siemens Gamesa said. Upon completion, the prototype unit will become the most powerful wind turbine installed in the world, surpassing GE’s 13 MW Haliade-X […]

  • Uniper and Ørsted Form Offshore Wind-to-Hydrogen Partnership in Germany

    20 September 2021
    Business & Finance, Environment, R&D, Technology

    Power producer and gas trader Uniper has formed a strategic partnership with Ørsted to jointly develop combined offshore wind and hydrogen projects on a large scale in Germany. This is to be achieved in particular through a system-serving direct integration of hydrogen production from offshore wind power at Uniper’s Wilhelmshaven site in Lower Saxony, the […]

  • Ørsted to Open United States Innovation Hub in Rhode Island

    16 January 2020
    R&D, Technology

    Ørsted is opening a United States Innovation Hub in Providence, Rhode Island in early spring as part of its commitment to building an offshore wind industry supply chain in the US. The Innovation Hub will be located in the CIC Providence workspace. To facilitate its mission, the Hub team will leverage Ørsted’s expertise across the […]

  • GeoSea and Buss Team Up on Merkur

    29 June 2017
    Wind Farm Update

    The Buss Orange Blue Terminal signed a contract with offshore wind farm constructor GeoSea N.V. for the handling and storage of the transition pieces for the fundamental structures of the 396MW Merkur offshore wind farm.

  • Offshore Wind Drives Northern European Long-Term Wind Power Growth

    1 December 2014
    Business & Finance, R&D

    With an expected 2.5% year-over-year growth, the European wind market will stabilize in 2014 from the decline in 2013. Europe’s short term outlook from 2015 to 2016 shows declining wind demand driven by regulatory adjustments. However, MAKE forecasts an average long term growth of 2.1% per year from 2014 to 2023. European market growth is […]

  • Hitachi Energy and Equinor Form Energy Transition Pact

    8 November 2022
    Environment, Grid Connection, Industry

    Hitachi Energy and Equinor have signed a strategic agreement to collaborate within electrification, renewable power generation, and low-carbon initiatives worldwide. Initial areas of focus for the collaboration include developing standardized base designs to be applied for high-voltage direct current (DC) and alternating current (AC) transmission systems to connect offshore wind farms and Equinor production facilities […]

  • Marine Species to Benefit from Anholt Offshore Wind Farm Project (Denmark)

    15 July 2011
    R&D, Wind Farm Update

      Due to extensive utilisation for, eg harbour piers and coast protection facilities, rock reefs have become a rare natural element in Denmark. And this is a shame for the large variety of flora and fauna that lives on and by the reefs. Now, lobsters, crabs and a neumber of fish species will benefit from […]

  • Rix Sea Shuttle to Expand Its Fleet with Damen Vessels

    4 June 2014

    UK-based Rix Sea Shuttle will shortly take delivery of their first ever Damen vessel – a Fast Crew Supplier 2610 – to support their growing involvement in the offshore crew transfer market. The new vessel, the Rix Lion, is due for delivery on July 4th, just 6 weeks after signing the contract. “Our yards in […]

  • The Netherlands: Braveheart Shipping Signs First ‘Guardian’ Contract

    11 July 2012
    Operations & Maintenance

    On 22 June 2012, Braveheart Shipping baptized its Javelin 22.22 “Guardian”. Guardian is the first Javelin built and developed by Javelin International by order of Braveheart Shipping. With this ship, especially being used for survey activities, Braveheart is further expanding its fleet and consequently extending its working area to Sea Area A3. The ship is […]

  • Vattenfall Calibrates Company Structure to Support Future Strategy

    15 January 2015
    Business & Finance

    Vattenfall today announced a new organisational structure and executive management team as key steps in ensuring the right structure to support Vattenfall’s future strategy. The new structure will take effect on 1 April 2015 and will replace the current regional structure.  Vattenfall’s new organisational structure is part of the current review of the Group’s strategy. The […]

  • Hafren Power Names Delivery Team Companies for Severn Barrage (UK)

    9 May 2013
    Business & Finance

    Hafren Power said today that five major global companies spanning engineering, construction, project management and logistics are working with it on its proposal to build a £25 billion, 18km (11 mile) electricity generating barrage across the Severn estuary. Arup, Bechtel, DHL, Mott MacDonald and URS are currently assessing the delivery model needed to manage the […]

  • Energy Industry Experts to Advise Across East of England

    29 April 2014
    Business & Finance

    Businesses across the East of England keen to cash in on opportunities created by the booming energy industry are being urged to accept a free helping hand from experts. A specialist roadshow is to cruise the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Essex over the next three months offering information, advice and an overview of […]

  • UK Ports Need GBP 4 Billion Investment to Help Unleash Floating Offshore Wind Industry – Report

    15 March 2023
    Infrastructure, Ports & Logistics, Vessels

    A new report by the Floating Wind Offshore Wind Taskforce says up to eleven ports around the UK will need to be transformed as fast as possible into new industrial hubs to enable the roll-out of floating offshore wind at scale. The report contains a series of recommendations which could see 34 GW of floating […]

  • DNV Is Owner’s Engineer for Taipower Offshore Wind Project Phase II

    23 March 2021
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    DNV has signed a USD 17.7 million (EUR 14.84 million) contract to be the Owner’s Engineer for Taipower Offshore Wind Project Phase II (Changhua Phase II) in Taiwan. The 300 MW TPC Changhua Phase II is the largest offshore wind farm being developed solely by Taiwan Power Company (Taipower). The work scope lasting into the […]

  • USA: Renewables to Make Scotland ‘Silicon Valley’ of Marine Energy

    20 June 2012
    Authorities

    Renewable resources will make Scotland the “Silicon Valley” of marine energy in the same way that hi-tech industries transformed Northern California, the First Minister said in the keynote speech of his American trade mission. First Minister Alex Salmond made the claim during a speech to the Commonwealth Club of California in San Francisco, the oldest public affairs forum in the United States. In a […]

  • UK: Gas Could Save Millions for Greater Cuts in Emissions, Says Policy Exchange

    8 June 2012

    Building more gas power plants could release hundreds of millions of pounds a year for greater cuts in emissions, more home insulation and additional low carbon research and development, a new report by leading think tank Policy Exchange has found. A more balanced approach to electricity generation over the next decade – which enables the […]